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I loved the Strike series. I played Jungle Strike first and was blown away with the how fun it all was. First mission has you flying around DC taking out terrorists in VW camper vans, saving monuments and escorting Bill Clinton's limo to safety. Then you're loving about with a hovercraft on the ocean somewhere, followed by a night time level where you can't see poo poo unless you start firing off fuckloads of ordnance. You rescue some POW who turns out to be some awesome co-pilot/machine gunner then a few levels later you're flying a loving stealth fighter around Aztec temples and bombing drug lords into the stone age, before returning to DC for an endearingly ridiculous finale where Saddam Jr tries to drive a nuclear missile truck into the White House. Plus that opening titles theme is still awesome even today. From there, I went back and tried Desert Strike, which was a decent first game but only had 4 levels and the Apache was the only vehicle on offer. Urban Strike was kinda meh overall, the indoor sections were lame but there were a few cool missions, like the fog-shrouded San Fran one, and yeah, the story is especially hilarious nowadays. Fast forward a few years and I picked up Soviet Strike cheap on sale. The reviews hadn't been kind, they called it out for basically being the same game all over again in shiny new polygonal clothing while being backward enough to still make Russians the badguys but honestly, I loving loved it. The presentation was ahead of its time, with pretty decent live action performances and an insane amount of information on just about every aspect of the game, tech and missions therein. The near RTS aspects of one mission especially was great too, as you helped a rebel insurgency hold off advancing battalions, arranged defence placements, set up traps, the works. Nuclear Strike was just more of the same but that's fine when it's done well. Alas, it was the last proper Strike game and they've never seemed interested in revisiting it. The CNN correspondent who was really a superspy field ops and propaganda specialist should have gotten her own game, dammit. Still say Nick was totally the Shadowman, mind.
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