Awesome-ness incarnate online...and a damn fun game offline.
Oh boy was I wrong.
A pilot mate of mine tipped me off. He'd been teaming up with mates and spending hours just doing formnation flying training in the game.....no shooting, just flying! And they all kept coming back for more!
Something was up.
So I got a copy, and within an hour I was hooked. The offline campaign is superbly realised, varied and damned exciting once you hit the epic later battles. I was lost for hours in this world, it is so beautifully rendered....you WISH you were there.
Then I dragged it online. Quicka nd easy t oget into I was dogfighting within minutes, yanking the head view around trying t osee where that damn radar lock was coming from, burning down out of the clouds into a valley floor chase with 2 other jets. And learning the hard way that an F15 just doesn't like negative G inverted climbs. Oops.
I cannot recommend this enough as there is precious little else like it on 360 or Live.
It sounds cheese, but if you ever watched Top Gun and wished you could....this is as near to it whilst still actually being fun. Plus crashing doesn't cost millions.
Go get it, you will not be dissapointed