Joint Strike Fighter (video game)

Joint Strike Fighter
Joint Strike Fighter
Developer(s)	Innerloop Studios
Publisher(s)	Eidos Interactive
Designer(s)	Thomas Hagen
Programmer(s)	Thomas Hagen
Artist(s)	Rune Spaans
Composer(s)	Kim M. Jensen
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	December 10, 1997
Genre(s)	Air combat simulation
Mode(s)	Single player, online multiplayer

Joint Strike Fighter is a 1997 combat flight simulator designed by Innerloop Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Innerloop produced the game chiefly to be a showcase for their cutting edge game engine, which they planned to license to other game developers.^[2] The game engine was later adapted to Project I.G.I..

Gameplay

The game lets the player assume the role of wing commander of an unnamed western alliance campaigning in four different (fictional) war scenarios taking place in Afghanistan, Colombia, Korea, and the Kola Peninsula. The player may pilot either of the two prototype multi-role combat aircraft that contended in the Joint Strike Fighter Program: the Lockheed Martin X-35 (later selected for production) and the Boeing X-32.^[3] The player is accompanied in air combat by up to three AI-controlled wingmen. Alternatively, the player can engage in pure dogfighting against either the computer or human opponents through online multiplayer and spawn installation modes.

^ Jebens, Harley (December 10, 1997). "Joint Strike Fighter Free". GameSpot. Archived from the original on January 19, 1998. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
^ "NG Alphas: Innerloop". Next Generation. No. 29. Imagine Media. May 1997. pp. 120–2.
^ "NG Alphas: Joint Strike Fighter". Next Generation. No. 35. Imagine Media. November 1997. p. 123.

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