Why I buy this one ?
- Choose from nine combat aricraft from the U.S. or Russia -- from the tank-killing A-10 Warthog to the masters of the sky, the F-15C Eagle
- Intensely realistic flight campaigns and a fully-immersive combat environment provide you with unlimited hours of gameplay
- Use the Dynamic Battle Generator to create your own combat scenarioes
- Incredible sound effects and stunning 3D objects, plus a special training mode and unique background story, make you feel like a combat pilot
- Multiplayer excitement for up to 32 players, via LAN or Internet connection

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What our customer's say!

"Poorly made, terrible controls,", Lock On: Modern Air Combat (LOMAC) is easily the worst combat sim made in the past 10 years, with awful controls, bad graphics and a rushed release it is the absolute epitome of lazy game design on a budget. You're much better off buy Wings Over Europe or any other Thirdwire sim as they have a better modding community and a very good mission designer/campaign system.

"Flight-Sim Enthusiasts Rejoice", I have been searching for the most realistic Flight Simulator game out there for about two years now. I have tried Microsoft Flight Simulator X and been disappointed by its lack of combat. I have tried a few WWII flight sims, but those are not quite what I was looking for. The Ace Combat series was the only game that I found which had jets shooting down jets, yet their arcade-style and unrealistic quantities of ammo let me down.

Lock-On: Modern Air Combat (LOMAC) is the most realistic jet flight simulator that I could find, and it came at an incredible price. There are only 6 planes available to fly (technically 8 or 9, but that's because there are different country variations of the Mig-29) so that's an annoyance, but it will take you just about a month and a half or longer to perfect flying just one of these planes.

The impossibility of mid-air refueling, (i.e. it's quite challenging)the struggle of carrier landings, and the ever-prominent challenge of choosing the right radar for your target all make this game one of the most realistic flight sims out there.

I encourage this game for anyone who enjoys the challenge of realistic flight-simulation.

Final statement
the campaigns are a tad short (about 7-10 missions), but you can make your own. Having only 2 US planes is an annoyance (A-10 and F-15) along with only 1 carrier plane (SU-33), but I guess can live with that. The online community is quite small, too, (16 players online at this moment, 1 PM) but there is almost always someone there. Finally, if this gets boring you can order LOMAC Flaming Cliffs the successor, or LOMAC Gold which has both the original and Flaming Cliffs for about $20.

"Lock On Modern Air Combat", If you have the patience to get over the quirks especially if you own a Saitek x-52, this game is one of the best out there like MS Flight Simulator X.

"You had better be a real pilot to play this game!", I purchased The Ultimate collection with Lock On being one of three games in the set! I was interested in Lock On as I already own Pac. Fighters and IL2 Sturmovik. I must say the game "could have been super" if they didn't make everything so complicated. There are many many key combinations to select radar, air to air and ground missles, locking on targets etc! Every time I select radar, I loose my ability to control speed of the aircraft with my joystick!! Very frustrating, you'd better be ready for some "figuring out" if you intend to play this game!

"A "must-have sim" for any aviation enthusiast!", In spite of its age, Lock-On remains one of the key references in military simulation games. Graphics are very good -the higher you climb, the more real-life the landscape gets-, A/C's behaviors -and related flaws- are quite realistic, the number of parameters that can be fine-tuned adds to the overall realism of the game.

A few question marks remain on my side, though. For example, some of the F-15 campaign missions are almost unplayable, like the one in which a Russian A-50 AWACS must be destroyed: this is straight out of another world, with a flight of 2x F-15's scrambling to get this A50 out of the skies, as well as its Su-27 escort, with only the onboard gun! Where did the designers of Lock-On got this idea from???

That aside, Lock-On is a very good game which seems to be the last of its kind (when was a good military combat sim game last released??)

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Lock-On", Although it's got pretty good graphics, the regular version crashes, Alot! Sometimes I find myself not ending my game because I want to, but because it just crashes. Overall: A pretty good game, but only if you don't mind restarting it every mission or so. Also, the mission editor is really hard to learn if you don't read the manual.

"Needs the correct hardware, but worth it!", Now, I heard a bunch of reviews that you need insane hardware. That's not entirely true. I have this running on my Dell Inspiron (1.6Ghz Dual-Core, 256 MB Mobility Radeon X1400, 1GB Ram), and it runs perfectly smooth. You'll need a joystick preferably with a seperate throttle, since this is a hard core sim.

I have Flanker 1.5, and I was initially reluctant to get this game, since I figured with a name like "Lock-On" it would be very arcade like. But it is not. It's even more in depth than Flanker--except the manual pales in comparison to the Flankers 200 page manual describing all types of weapons, tactics, etc.

All in all, well worth the purchase if you loved Flanker 1.0/1.5.

"Lock On: Modern Air Combat", Without the proper video card the graphics on this game DO NOT work. Everything is blacked out where there should be graphics. The system requirements don't tell you that you need a high end graphics card for this game to work. I contacted Ubi software. They told me in an email that I should use a GForce FX graphics card. At other websites they suggested a GForce 6600 graphics card with at least 256MB of memory. These cards range from $100 to $150. If you don't have the proper card DO NOT buy this game.

"System requirements grossly understated, game suffers from an infestation of bugs", While the system requirements may claim that a Pentium 800 processor is sufficient to run this game, take it from me (and from an avid community of Lock-On fans): You will need at least a 3Ghz class Pentium and the best video card money can buy to have this game perform smoothly. With that aside, strap in and ready yourself for a tour de force of corrupt textures and random game crashes (and believe me, there will be lots of those). And when you do happen to see a peculiar artifact (such as a string of out-of-place polygons coming from the sky, or the ground) rest assured, it's not some superweapon of the future; It's just yet another doodad that shouldn't be there; A result of Eagle Dynamic's saddening execution of game that was compiled with an underpaid pseudo-programmer and grossly undertested.

As for the missions and gameplay, it's a proven combat simulator. Don't expect to jump in and start firing missiles away. It will take a few hours to learn and effectively use the weaponry on these aircraft. While I have personally only trained on the A-10, I can say that the few times I managed to finish a mission (in those rare cases when an unexpected game crash didn't reboot my computer) the attention to detail paid to avionics, flight dynamics and damage models was accurately modeled. This is by no means an arcade-themed shooter. Training sessions are thorough enough to teach you the basics needed in effectively using each airplane to the best of its abilities.

While Lock-On comes off as a promising title, its wide array of bugs that plague the game keep it from becoming an memorable gem amongst combat flight-sim enthusiasts. Eagle Dynamics (the game's developer) has been slow in turning around patches in hopes of fixing some fatal flaws (as of 2005, four years after the game's launch, only 2 minor patches have been released).

With such a unlucky combination of flaky code, (forcing the player to re-play some of the missions time and time again due to crashes and freeze-ups) Lock-On should remain in its developer's shop until it matures as a product worthy of a public release.

"Lock-on MAC", Excellent flight sim for newbies or veterans. Presents a challengeto programming into the Saitek X52 controller.