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Valkyrie

aka: Cobra Strike
Moby ID: 25394

Macintosh version

A good game for it's era, but its age shows.

The Good
This was a fun game for it's era, and balanced the sim aspects pretty well. Controls are based on mouse and keyboard, with keyboard controlling rudder and collective (vertical control), with the mouse controlling pitch and bank. There's a toggle to switch mouse control to the nose gun. Your helo is also equipped with unguided rockets. Enemy AI is decently challenging, and you will find yourself repeating missions due to being shot down.

The Bad
The graphics are very low-poly 3D graphics from before 3D graphics cards came out, and the controls don't even map well to a joystick. The way the mouse swaps from flight controls to gun controls makes dogfighting trickier than it should be.

The Bottom Line
My rating for the game is based mostly on my enjoyment of the game back in the era it was released. It would be difficult to go back compared to modern games.

by xfade551 on August 5, 2024

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