Marine Fighters Marine Fighters
Exhibit - Marine Fighters
Release Date - 1995
Platform - PC
Developer - Janes Combat Simulations
Publisher - EA
In collection - Yes
Comments - Marine Fighters was an add-on pack to US Navy Fighters. It added 4 new player aircraft and a campaign set in the Kurile Islands.

Marine Fighters was an add-on pack to US Navy Fighters. It added 4 new player aircraft and a campaign set in the Kurile Islands.

Where?

I rushed out to a map shop and grabbed a map of the islands which it turned out lay to the North of Japan.

OK - contested by the Japan and USSR since WW2! That sounds like a good setting for conflict. When you look at the Operational Navigation Charts it's amazing to see that the Soviet Union's Air Defense zone actually extends over the Japanese mainland!

Anyway besides being mostly blue, the maps weren't much use in Marine Fighters as the terrain didn't correspond too closely to reality. Not to worry.

  First mission
New player aircraft:
  FRS1 Sea Harrier
  AV-8B Marine Harrier
  Yak-141 - a supersonic VTOL
  AC-130 Spooky Gunship


Evolution of Graphics

Graphics Preferences Graphics Preferences
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Texture Mapping Texture Mapping
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  Links

AC-130 Spooky Gunship