Jetfighter is a series of 3D combat flight simulation video games by Velocity Development in which the player flies a combat jet against enemy forces. The first was published in 1988. The 3D graphics were cutting-edge at the time of the game's release, and used real-world terrain. The games occupied an uncomfortable middle ground: too much flight simulator realism for action game players, but too simplistic for the hardcore sim fans. The series ended after the commercial failure of Jetfighter 2015. The later games support 3dfx Voodoo cards.
Jetfighter II was produced before the winner of the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition was announced. The programmers chose to emulate the YF-23 "Black Widow II" as the winning aircraft rather than the eventual winner, the YF-22 (which "entered service" in 2004 as the F-22 Raptor).
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Reception In the United States, Jetfighter IVs jewel case version sold 270,000 copies and earned $2.6 million by August 2006, after its release in January 2002. It was the country's 75th best-selling computer game between January 2000 and August 2006. Combined sales of all Jetfighter computer games released between January 2000 and August 2006 had reached 450,000 units in the United States by the latter date.
In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave Jetfighter: The Adventure two-plus stars out of five ("still an entertaining product"). Jetfighter II received three stars ("contemporary graphics and play value").
See also F-22 (series), a series of combat flight simulators by NovaLogic
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