In fact, the only thing worthy of explanation is the ‘Hard Lock’ mechanic itself. Flight is handled with the left stick and barrel rolls and speed boosts etc are handled with the right. ![]() ![]() With its simplistic controls and extremely manoeuvrable fighter jets, getting into Hard Lock couldn’t be easier. It’s not the kind of game that’s going to steal away months of your life and is certainly ill-fitted for long periods of play, but like the best arcade games out there, Hard Lock is hugely enjoyable in small doses and is home to that immediately accessible pick up and play mentality that is so often lacking from other games in the genre.įalling somewhere between the absurdity of Sega’s brilliant and criminally overlooked, After Burner Climax (if you haven’t bought it already – get online and buy it now!) and Namco’s recently reinvented Ace Combat series, Top Gun: Hard Lock throws you straight into the action, obviously happy that it’s basic mechanics can be picked up on the fly (sorry!). I’m not going to sit here and tell you that it’s a masterpiece, or even that it’s in the same league as the genre king, but as an arcade-styled aerial fighter, Hard Lock is strangely hard to dislike. ![]() ![]() It’s ugly, repetitive, has some of the worst dialogue in modern videogames and shamelessly cribs Ace Combat: Assault Horizon’s defining feature and turns it into little more than a collection of rudimentary QTEs.
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