Customer Rating: 
Summary: Absolutely Rubbish
Comment: In it's time this may have been good but not now.
Lacking any flight sims I read the review for this and bought it, a big mistake. The graphics aren't much better than Atari's ancient "Afterburner" and the sound quality is dire.
Ok you get two games at a cheap price but there is a reason:- they are both rubbish. Don't waste your money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Make Mine The MiG-29!
Comment: Satrting with the newer plane, but the older program, F-22 Raptor is a great fighter simulation. THe graphics and general speed and layout are fantastic, especially the ground and aircraft textures. There is satisfying realism in the ever-so-slightly mountains of desert and arctic zones rushing by, or the jungle or sea scapes that look the part. All this is just the beginning. The action takes place close up to the HUD (a bit too close-up perhaps) so that the whole screen is the pilots view through the HUD, and all modes from navigation, missile or bomb selection to landing are represented. Something tells me that the real F-22 HUD isn't quite like this, as it is rather too similar to the MiG's! However, it is realistic, and another delight is that you can even change the colour and brightness of the projected HUD info.Now to the missions: they are all in wonderful scenery, almost too nice to go to war in! the American desert featurse with valleys and mountain tops to zoom around, but better are the snow capped mountains and sea, or the Angolan jungle where the Campaign missions take place. That campaign is the mpost realistic, as you do have some time to actually take off and fly top arget- the first target at least, as most missions invlve secondary and even tertiary targets that can keep you occupied for ages. Even until the fuel runs out. There is no in-flight refuelling as in real missions would be a necessity, and landing during a mission in the F-22 will not help your fuel or weapons. In saying that, these sims do have 5 or 6 cheats that can save your skin (such as entering a code word whilst damaged and receiving the reply "Thou art healed" and the plane is as good as new!)
Most missions involve a take-off straight into incoming ememies that are tough to shoot down, so you better use your stealthy abilities and your wingman. The missions bear no relation to the fact that the real F-22 is a stealth fighter, so its more a case of dogfighting. Other drawbacks are the tendency for the sound (but NOT the image) to be stacatto- as if the ground controller has a stutter. Great little chit chats are also included between ground and your wingman,though they ar a bit fanciful.
Then the MiG! This has all the same sort of cockpit details and lanscapes - this time the missions are in Burma, Somalia, Tajikistan (most reality mirroring)and Uganda. All is similar (though, confusingly not the same keys are used exactly) and what is simple in viewing enemy or your own plane in F-22, becomes a challenge of ambidextorose proportions in MiG-29! Everything is better apart from that, in cockpit viewing and smoothness of sound. In fact the cockpit views are stunning in that the movement from one part of the instruments to the HUD and back is animated like you are moving your eyes around to focus. Thats class, as is the plane textures and speech. In this sim even the voices are in Russian(!) you so choose (in the options before you start). The missions are better too, and the MiG is so tough that I nave even managed to land in a flat area of the incredible landscape, be automatically refuelled and re-armed, and take off again to get back to base. Very satisfying. The enemy planes range from 1950's Fantans and Phantoms, to other MiGs and Su-27's, with Mirages and even Eurofighters thrown in.
Finally there is th on-line play option, where you can take on others in similar aircraft. Here the Staelth of the F-22 may seem like just the thing. I'll have a MiG-29, as this can carry a vast range of weapons that you can select before take-off (The F-22 can only handle 2 air to air missiles and one type of bomb in its internal weapons bays). Select the super long range "Adder" air to air missiles, find a target and keep it busy with one or two of these "AMRAASKI's", then use the afterburners to get in close for a short range missilr or gun kill. No one can be stealthy forever, you reap what you sow (as the good book says).
