Experience a rush of adrenaline by climbing into the cockpit of the Mi-24 Hind, the most highly armored, heavily armed, and fiercest helicopter gunship of the Eastern Bloc. Experience sets of missions including troop deployment, troop drops, and pickups based on actual Russian army activity. You can...
Windows XP / Vista / 7, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatibl...
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Experience a rush of adrenaline by climbing into the cockpit of the Mi-24 Hind, the most highly armored, heavily armed, and fiercest helicopter gunship of the Eastern Bloc. Experience sets of missions including troop deployment, troop drops, and pickups based on actual Russian army activity. You can even see 3D animated models of Mujaheddin guerrillas as they lift SA-7s to their shoulders, ready to fire. Get a taste of what it's like to fly against the best Uncle Sam has to offer. With Hind’s varying levels of difficulty, from free-for-all arcade mode to a highly detailed mission planner, it’s the perfect helicopter simulation game for the accomplished gamer and a novice pilot alike. So, Komrade, is time to strap self into cockpit and find out why is nickname for such helicopter called "Flying Tank,” да?
Realistic flight model made with almost fanatical attention to detail that will please even the most demanding sim fans.
Play through three high-octane campaigns, including one actually based on the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in 1980.
Detailed battlefields with surprising attention to detail, all the way down to animating individual ground troops.
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
This is one of the most fun and immersive flight simulators i've ever played.
Flight controls, realism, choosable weapons, mission diversity are all superb and make one want to learn to master this awesome piece of warmachine.
Unfortunately I didn't try the multiplayer until now, but i definitely will in the future, just because getting into one Hind as pilot and WSO with two players sounds so beautiful to me.
Play this game comrades! its beautiful! The hind helicopter might not be as fun as the Commanche or KA-50 Hokum but its death from above for those mujahadeen and capitalist dogs! The only quips I have are 1 doesn't come with the mission editor, 2, there is no campaign about WW3 in North America or Europe like you have with Gunship 2000 and M-1 Abrahams. I would love to take this baby up over Colorado and take on the Wolverines. Maybe also through Seattle like in World in Conflict!
I am compelled to write this review because I have absolutely no experience with this sim in the past. It was not a staple of my childhood, nor have I picked it up until a few days ago, when I did so on a whim, out of absolute, unabashed boredom.
It is a really spectacular little simulator. The titular Hind helicopter is really well put together. The flight deck is detailed for its time - even if the gauges are organised by the ergonomic requirement of not really being able to turn your head rather than any realistic arrangement - and the flight dynamics are...quite incredibly well put together. I flew the Hind in DCS for around 200 hours or so since it released, being primarily a helicopter pilot therein, and I can safely say that they nailed its quirks as well as they could given the technology they were working with. And that's what I want to touch on, since most other reviews give a pretty accurate overview of the gameplay.
On paper, it is fairly easy to simulate a helicopter. It is just a plane that rises vertically and can move backwards as well as forwards, and directly side-to-side. Sure, there's quite a few sims from this time that get that relatively right. However, Hind (now as old as I am, quite literally), features things like an accurate depiction of translational lift, vortex ring states, and even ground effect. If you descend to quickly, you will enter a vortex ring state and get pushed down into the ground. Admittedly, it is easier to fly in general than the DCS variant, and it is easier to get out of VRS than in DCS (even if some claim that DCS exaggerates VRS a lot), but for 1996, having that many forces acting on a helicopter realistically is amazing.
There's also torque, which behaves accurately - raising the collective will increase torque, necessitating pedal correction - and an accurate depiction of the heft needed to get the aircraft out of close ground effect.
Peripherals are a pain but guides exist.
This is one of my fave games, I bought mine back in '97, and lost track of it with the newer OSes, but now that GoG has it, it's on my shortlist to buy soonest.
For old-style players who, upon understanding the best technology could offer in those times, find this console an excellent flight simulator in a Mil Mi-24 HIND attack helicopter!
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