Heatseeker targets the PSP with trademarked Impact Cam feature
Codemasters heads aces high with combat flight sim
It must the PSP's widescreen that's encouraging the squadrons of combat flight sims that seem to be swooping around the console at the moment.
We've only just seen off Pilot Academy, and Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception is due for touchdown soon, but what's that sonic boom over the horizon? It's Codemaster's Heatseeker.
As you can gather from the title, this isn't the sort of simulator that will be getting officially endorsed by those Bigglesworths down at the RAF's Cranwell flying school. The recruits will probably be playing it behind the hangers though.
As the marketing blurb puts it: 'Explosions are good. However, watching state-of-the-art, military machines explode into blazing fireballs of fuel and molten metal in cinematic slow motion is better'.
And that is what Heatseeker is all about.
One feature Codemasters seems particularly pleased about is the game's Impact Cam, so much so that it's actually gone and got the name trademarked. Therefore, to the likes of you and me it's now Impact Cam™, as in... 'Lock-on to your target and fire. Hit it right and the Impact Cam™ will reward you with cinematic, flyby camera shots of your enemy disintegrating into blazing pieces.'
The finishing touch for combat pilot porn, then.
Heatseeker is still being fuelled and armed, but is due to blaze an afterburning streak of fire across the sky sometime in March 2007.
