''F-15 Strike Eagle II'' is an

F-15E Strike Eagle The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The F-15E was designed in the 1980s for long-range, high-speed interdiction without rely ...

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released in 1989 by

MicroProse MicroProse is an American video game publisher and video game developer, developer founded by Bill Stealey, Sid Meier, and Andy Hollis in 1982. It developed and published numerous games, including starting the ''Civilization (series), Civilizatio ...

and is the sequel of '' F-15 Strike Eagle''. It was followed in 1992 by ''

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'', the final game of the series. The fighter is equipped with a

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and three different kinds of missiles, Sidewinders,

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s and

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. In ''F-15 Strike Eagle II'' comes with four scenarios:

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and

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. In a mission the player has to fight a variety of enemy aircraft, missile boats, satellite stations and other ground targets, to take out one primary and one secondary target, making sure to not attack friendly targets.

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s and medals are based on the mission score. ''Strike Eagle II'' was very similar in both appearance and game play to MicroProse's previous release, ''

F-19 Stealth Fighter ''F-19 Stealth Fighter'' is a combat flight simulator developed and released in 1988 (PC DOS) and 1990 ( Amiga and Atari ST) by MicroProse, featuring a fictional United States military aircraft. It is the 16-bit remake of the 8-bit game '' Pr ...

''. Like many flight simulators of the time, realism was at times sacrificed due to either computing requirements or playability. In 1991, a scenario disk was released called ''F-15 II Operation Desert Storm''. It added three new scenarios, two from the earlier ''

'', North Cape and

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, and a new scenario based on the contemporary

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called

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. In addition, night missions, improved sound support and new weapons were included.

Reception

The game was reviewed positively in ''

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''. The review described it as "a gamer's game", emphasizing the game aspects over the simulation, and notably less complicated than ''F-19 Stealth Fighter''. 1992 and 1994 surveys in the magazine of wargames with modern settings gave the game three and a half stars out of five.

References

External links

''The Official F-15 Strike Eagle Handbook''
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