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==Gameplay==
==Gameplay==
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The game features an instant-action arcade mode, custom missions, and a campaign mode. The player can fly three aircraft: The [[Eurofighter]], the [[F-22]] and the [[F-117]], and can customize payload for each aircraft. The campaign mode takes place in three theatres - Colombia, Somalia, Libya, the Balkans, and the South Georgia Islands. "TFX" stands for Tactical Fighter E(X)periment.
The game features an instant-action arcade mode, custom missions, and a campaign mode. The player can fly three aircraft: The [[Eurofighter]], the [[F-22]] and the [[F-117]], and can customize payload for each aircraft. The campaign mode takes place in three theatres - Colombia, Somalia, Libya, the Balkans, and the South Georgia Islands. "TFX" stands for Tactical Fighter E(X)periment.

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TFX
Developer(s)Digital Image Design
Publisher(s)Ocean Software
Composer(s)
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Amiga
ReleaseTemplate:Vgy
Genre(s)Flight simulation
Mode(s)Single player

Gameplay

Laser-guided bomb attack in TFX
View from the TIALD pod of a Eurofighter during a laser-guided bombing run in TFX

The game features an instant-action arcade mode, custom missions, and a campaign mode. The player can fly three aircraft: The Eurofighter, the F-22 and the F-117, and can customize payload for each aircraft. The campaign mode takes place in three theatres - Colombia, Somalia, Libya, the Balkans, and the South Georgia Islands. "TFX" stands for Tactical Fighter E(X)periment.

Development

The interactive parts of the game were reduced to still images or omitted altogether for the Amiga version which, although never officially released by Ocean, was later included as a give-away game on a CU Amiga Magazine cover disc. There was also an experimental port produced for the original PlayStation shortly after its release. The Soap Opera Engine was manually programmed in TFX, but would be altered to become automated in future games. Amiga Computing gave the game a rating of 90% although they did question its stability on the basic Amiga 1200 platform.[1]

Reception

In 1994, PC Gamer UK named TFX the 26th best computer game of all time. The editors called it "one of the best flight sims out on the PC and, with a bit of effort, a hugely playable game".[2]

References

  1. ^ "TFX". Amiga Computing (86). IDG Media: 108–110. 1995.
  2. ^ Staff (April 1994). "The PC Gamer Top 50 PC Games of All Time". PC Gamer UK (5): 43–56.