Airforce Delta Strike

Airforce Delta Strike, known as Airforce Delta: Blue Wing Knights in Japan and Deadly Skies III in Europe, is the third installment in the Konami Airforce Delta series. It was released in 2004 exclusively on the PlayStation 2. It plays very similarly to the previous Airforce Delta games.

Airforce Delta Strike
Developer(s)	Konami Computer Entertainment Studios
Publisher(s)	Konami
Artist(s)	Jun Tsukasa
Series	Airforce Delta series
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2
Release	NA: February 3, 2004 JP: February 5, 2004 EU: May 14, 2004
Genre(s)	Flight simulator
Mode(s)	Single-player

Story

The game plot occurs in a not specified time, but has futuristic, sci-fi weapons, planes and environments. When O.C.C. (Orbital Citizen Community), a space colony set on Earth's orbit, starts to attack the Earth to control it, EDAF (Earth Defense Allied Forces) launches a defensive campaign. After some time, EDAF sees itself almost with no forces to fight and decides to enlist any militia forces to help, including the bad-famed Delta Squadron. After that, the tide starts to turn and as the Earth forces advance, they find out that O.C.C. is not the major threat - an organization from Mars is planning to destroy Earth with the help of the orbital colony.

Gameplay

AFDS features a large selection of planes to choose from and a series of missions to play through. However, unlike the previous installments, AFDS features an all new cast of anime-style characters illustrated by Jun Tsukasa. Some can be played as and others are just for support. Each character has a unique selection of planes to fly and has a different branch of missions to complete. Completion of some missions unlocks secret missions and hidden planes for replays.

After the game is once completed, a secret hangar becomes available. As the game is completed and medals are earned, more secret planes become available.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores Aggregator Score GameRankings 65.40%[1] Metacritic 66/100[2] Review scores Publication Score EGM 4.33/10[3] Famitsu 29/40[4] Game Informer 7/10[5] GamePro [6] GameSpot 6.5/10[7] GameSpy [8] GameZone 6.5/10[9] IGN 6.4/10[10] OPM (US) [11] X-Play [12]

The game was met with average reception upon release; GameRankings gave it a score of 65.40%,[1] while Metacritic gave it 66 out of 100.[2]

References

1. "AirForce Delta Strike for PlayStation 2". GameRankings. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
2. "AirForce Delta Strike for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
3. EGM staff (March 2004). "AirForce Delta Strike". Electronic Gaming Monthly (177): 115.
4. "Airforce Delta: Blue Wing Knights". Famitsu. 791. February 13, 2004.
5. Reiner, Andrew (February 2004). "Air Force Delta Strike". Game Informer (130): 97. Archived from the original on February 8, 2005. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
6. Atomic Dawg (February 3, 2004). "AirForce Delta Strike Review for PS2 on GamePro.com". GamePro. Archived from the original on February 4, 2005. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
7. Davis, Ryan (February 4, 2004). "AirForce Delta Strike Review". GameSpot. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
8. Schiaparelli, Frank (February 16, 2004). "GameSpy: AirForce Delta Strike". GameSpy. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
9. The Bearer (February 13, 2004). "Airforce Delta Strike - PS2 - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on December 30, 2008. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
10. Dunham, Jeremy (February 2, 2004). "AirForce Delta Strike". IGN. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
11. "AirForce Delta Strike". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine: 98. March 2004.
12. Speer, Justin (January 28, 2004). "'AirForce Delta Strike' (PS2) Review". X-Play. Archived from the original on February 11, 2004. Retrieved January 4, 2015.

External links

• Airforce Delta Strike at MobyGames