F-22: Air Dominance Fighter

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F-22: Air Dominance Fighter
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Developer(s) Digital Image Design
Publisher(s)
Producer(s) Simon Kershaw
Designer(s) Shaun Hollywood
Programmer(s) Stephen Powell
Artist(s) Ian Boardman
Paul Hollywood
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
ReleaseDecember 1997 (Europe)
February 25, 1998 [2] (United States)
Genre(s) Combat flight simulator

F-22: Air Dominance Fighter is a combat flight simulator video game developed by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software for the PC Windows in 1997. The game simulates the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter. It was preceded by EF2000 and was succeeded by F-22 Total Air War . An expansion, Red Sea Operations, was released in August 1998.

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Reception

F-22: Air Dominance Fighter was nominated in the category of "PC Simulation Game of the Year" during the AIAS' inaugural Interactive Achievement Awards. [4] F-22 ADF was also a runner-up for Computer Gaming World 's 1997 "Simulation Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Longbow 2 . The editors wrote that F-22 ADF "featured dazzling graphics, great flight modeling, and immersive missions, which made this game not only authentic, but fun as well." [5]

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References

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