Multiplayer is online-only, and publisher 505 Games has taken a pretty extreme measure for fighting used-game sales. One is the single-player Danger Zone, which is basically Horde mode-it's not exactly groundbreaking, but it's a lot of fun if you just feel like blowing stuff up without sitting through cutscenes with bad jokes every few minutes. There are a wide variety of modes aside from the campaign. This is a game you play for the action and explosions, not the finer points of presentation and storytelling. Also, while the graphics can give you an impressive view from time to time, more often they appear washed-out and insufficiently detailed. I'd have preferred a straight-up adaptation of the film if I'm in a Top Gun game, I want to be Tom Cruise, dangit! Further, the dialogue features lots of lame attempts at humor, and the voice acting is forced and cheesy. For one, the story-basically a reworking of the original Top Gun plot in modern times, with a war in the Persian Gulf region-is unremarkable. Unfortunately, some other aspects of Hard Lock keep it from joining the top tier of action games. It's especially exhilarating to realize that once one plane puts another in hard lock, one of them is going down. As annoying as quick time events can be, these frantic moments keep the game tense and exciting. If you win, your aiming reticle gets bigger and it becomes easier to lock on if they win, they drop in behind you and the process repeats. However, if you don't lock on quickly enough, your opponent can make a move to get you in a hard lock, and you have to fight them in a quick time event contest.
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will keep your plane behind your opponent-all you have to do is aim your weapon until the missiles lock on, because missiles are automatically fatal. Once you have an enemy in "hard lock," the A.I. The one wrinkle is the "hard lock" system if you manage to line your plane up directly behind an enemy aircraft, you'll see a prompt to go into this new mode. Meanwhile, if an opponent fires a missile at you, you're given a chance to do an evasive maneuver-typically a barrel roll in a specific direction, or dropping countermeasures to destroy the missile-via a quick time event. If your target isn't fully destroyed, or if it deploys countermeasures, try again.
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But the basic idea is almost always the same: move in close, get the target in your crosshairs and keep it there until your missiles lock on, and then fire. You'll need to take out ground targets, rival planes, radar jammers, and pretty much anything else you can imagine. The game's missions put you behind the controls of fourteen different planes that are licensed recreations of real-world aircraft. The face buttons fire your machine guns and missiles.
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(I didn't get to try the PC version of Hard Lock, but presumably these functions can be mapped to a joystick and the hat switch.) The triggers accelerate and decelerate, one bumper switches between the various missiles your plane has equipped (air-to-air, air-to-ground, etc.), and the other bumper deploys countermeasures. The left joystick steers your plane, and the right joystick is used for barrel rolls, afterburner, and a rapid slow-down maneuver.
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The core mechanics are intuitive despite making full use of a console controller's myriad buttons. The difficulty is adjustable if you find the game too easy or hard, and after each mission you're given a rating, so you can retry missions for a higher score if you're a completionist. The fifteen missions take maybe twenty to forty minutes apiece if you play them flawlessly, but with restarts on the tougher parts, some of them took me an hour or more. Yes, it can get repetitive, but I found myself fully engrossed as each group of enemies took to the skies. The main principles behind Hard Lock can be summed up as "keep it simple and action-packed" and "when in doubt, steal from Ace Combat." The campaign has the same sort of rhythm that most first-person shooters have: It auto-saves frequently, your health regenerates automatically, you have plenty of ammo (unlimited, in fact), the controls feel completely natural even if you've never played a flight sim before in your life, and you face wave after wave of enemies. Yes, it's cheesy and has its share of flaws, but if you don't take it too seriously, it worms its way into your heart. The NES's Top Gun may have been a disaster, but after 25 years, video games finally have an answer to Tom Cruise's signature action flick.
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And that's a shame, because Hard Lock is a fun rental for fans of arcade-style aerial combat.
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Despite the title's use of a well-known movie license, no one's really talking about this game. For whatever reason, Top Gun: Hard Lock has flown in under the radar.