Energy Airforce Aim Strike!

Energy Airforce: Aimstrike is a PlayStation 2 game with the focus set strictly on being an authentic flight simulator. All the aircraft are existing or prototype aircraft flown by the U.S. military and all the weapons used are existing weapons used by the U.S. military. The aircraft all carry a realistic load of weapons and fuel (although chaff and flares are unlimited) and can be viewed from outside or from a realistic cockpit view; when yawing the aircraft the relative pilots leg will depress.

Story

The follows a generic storyline and could be considered to be parodying the Gulf War of 1991. A small sandy desert country (whose capital is "Ad Barath") has a military coup d'état (Hinting to the Ba'ath Party) and gives birth to a militarized dictatorship. The country then uses its air superiority to invade a peaceful neighbor to the south (which denotes Kuwait). At this point, the player's organization steps in to combat the dictatorship and restore freedom to the besieged country. This involvement result in the city of "Ad Barath" falling in the final mission.

Unlike the previous game (Energy Airforce) where the player was stated to be a mercenary and only ever has a single wingman, but could have his single wingman fly a range of jets, EA: Aim strike! gives the player command of up to three wingmen in strike mode, two wingmen when flying a carrier-based story mode mission or three wingmen when flying a non-carrier-based storyline mission.

Military vehicles and aircraft

Flyable aircraft include:

• General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon Multi-role Strike Fighter

• F-16UD Fighting Falcon (An updated variant of the F-16 with extra capabilities)

• McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle (An air superiority fighter lacking ground strike abilities)

• Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (A stealth air superiority fighter with ground strike capabilities)

• Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet (A carrier-borne multi-role Strike Fighter)

• Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (Heavily armoured ground attack aircraft)

• Lockheed Martin X-35 (A carrier capable F35 variant described as a prototype aircraft, lacking a cannon)

• Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II (A STOVL stealth carrier based multi role aircraft)

Friendly unplayable units

• Grumman F-14 Tomcat Naval Strike Fighter

• Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche Experimental Attack Helicopter

• Boeing AH-64 Apache Helicopter gunship

• Bell AH-1 Super Cobra Marine Helicopter gunship

• M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank

• M2 Bradley IFV

Enemy Units

• Tupolev Tu-160 "Blackjack" supersonic bomber

• Sukhoi Su-25 "Frogfoot" Attack aircraft

• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 "Fishbed" Fighter/Interceptor

• Mikoyan MiG-29 "Fulcrum" Fighter aircraft

• Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker" Air Superiority Fighter

• Sukhoi Su-37 "Terminator" Advanced Air Superiority Fighter

• Sukhoi Su-34 "Fullback" Flanker Based attack aircraft

• Mikoyan Project 1.44 Air Superiority

• Mil Mi-35 "hind" Helicopter gunship

• ZSU-57-2 SPAAG

• Kamov Ka-52 "Alligator" Helicopter gunship

• T-80U Tank

• BM-21 Grad Rocket artillery vehicle

• 9K35 Strela-10 "SA-13 Gopher" Surface to Air Missile

• 9K22 Tunguska "SA-19 Grison" Surface to Air Missile

• FROG-7 Battle Field Missile

Reception

This game was not highly publicized and many game review sites don't even acknowledge its existence. There is a fallacy that the SR-71 is playable in the game, but the plane is limited to AI use only.

Sequel

The game Over G Fighters is the Spiritual Sequel to EA: Aim Strike! It has many apparent similarities to this game, including cockpit, map and radar layout options and use of the Player's Callsign - Gargoyle. Most of the cockpit chatter featured in EA: Aim Strike! is reused in Over-G Fighters.