F-22: Air Dominance Fighter

Remakes and remasters have been all the rage lately as new players rediscover old games adapted for new hardware. And I must say, the recent F-22 Air Dominance Fighter remaster does every single thing right. Well, it's made by the best. Old modders joined the recently revived Digital Image Design - working in secret this whole time. And their experience with the game really shows. 6 degree of freedom trackIR, a view distance and graphical upgrade, as well as FULL support for most HOTAS setups, in my opinion there's really nothing that they left out.

The initial release left many feeling like it was incomplete. I don't think it was *that* bad, personally, but the updates post-launch have added a great many quality of life updates. I can map my Virpil Stick and Throttle, and my CH Pedals. I can use TrackIR, OpenTrack or BeamEye Tracker. I've even managed to map most of the controls on Steam Deck. Ultra-wide resolution support. Numerous bug fixes, and Steam Workshop support. This is a very fun classic flight sim, and I'd recommend it to any flight sim enthusiast. Whether you've got the latest gear and a god-PC, or your old gear from the 90's gathering dust in a closet and a potato PC, this is worth the price of entry.

SOLID!

It was so much fun! I love this game. It's not as difficult as simulators, and although the system is a bit old, many things are still modern. I wish the hotkeys were customizable, and I'd love some nice graphic mods.

Hey Great to see this oldi but goodie revised.. I used to play the AWACS missions many times over and they are still as fun as I remebered.. If you were a fan of it back in the day give it a try it is still fun. niow I still do not think I can beat the 3hour instant action.. not sure if the MP works?

An absolute bombshell that you can´t miss!!!

i dumped the entirety of the usaf's weaponry into the ass of khalaz5 because why on earth did it take him an irl hour to show up

Its p. good.

Brings back a lot of memories. A great old school flight sim from the golden era of PC flight sims. Runs great on a Windows 11 laptop and transitions in and out of screen menus with no problem. Great mix of casual and sim content in loads of training missions and campaigns. Visuals still look good all these years later - you wont be getting DCS looks, but you wont be paying the price for content or hardware either.

Nostalgia and good work done. A time travel that worths the value. Want Total Air War back too!! I used to play TAW around 25 years ago. I spent so many hours of fun with that game. Some years later I tried to find forums to check if was still playable, but I couldn´t manage to run it properly and forgot about it. Now, as I heard F22 ADF has been remastered and ready to play, I didn´t want to miss the opportunity. Now, after 16h on the game, with most of training missions done and starting real fire, I want to give my feedback and thoughts about. Pure nostalgia ready to play: Being back to F22 cabin it´s been incredible. Game runs smoothly on W10 without remarkable bugs (Bigger with hotas was solved in few days) with HD resolution. I bought old good joystick and proved that well made software and hardware don´t expire. Visual enhancement: Besides new Hi Res available, I installed Reshade software. Even without any prior knowledge, Imanaged to visually enhance the game a bit. I hope new TAW remaster can add some of these options natively without too much technical effort. Is it worth the price?: I can understand that pay 20-25 €/£/$ for a 30 years old game in the times of legal free to play games can generate doubts. I doubted myself. But then I though…. How much time I spent 15 years ago trying to make TAW work in windows 7? If any friend had assured me that he can install the game to run fluent, for sure I would invite him to a pizza and some beers. But also I don´t see this as a simple payment for an old game. I´m supporting those brave guys that make the effort to bring my memories back, who took the risk of bring back to life a “niche” game without a guaranteed return on investment, and, especially, to tell them that it´s worth going for TAW. I paid 20€ for the game, 25€ for a used joystick and for me…. It´s worth it. I´m not just buying a game, I´m funding the idea to bring back old flight sims. In summary: Running solid in a 10 years old W10 laptop full HD, now compatible with flight hardware, it brings back to me hours of fun I though forgotten forever. So, not just for this F22 ADF, but also to give the clear message that I want TAW back…. I can just recommend to buy it.