Xbox Live-enabled: No
Yager pits you as top fighter pilot Magnus Tide
in a game that doesn't seem to have
much of a back-story other than painting you as some sort of renegade with
a female air traffic co-ordinator who's not pleased to see you're back from
wherever you're meant to have disappeared to, so we can assume you tried to
have your wicked way with her.
The authority-types have gruff voices with which to boss you about as you
prepare for the training missions, and once you've completed these then it's
on to the real thing. However, it does play too much like so many other games
where you have to 'fly about and sort things out' with dogfights and missions
starting with shooting down a flying tanker that's about to crash.
Graphically Yager is very impressive. It's colourful and flawless, if
a little bit cartoony at times. The music is okay but did seem the same or
very similar to the creepy mission music as Hitman 2. The sound FX are all
around you and certainly worth a listen.
Control of your ship takes some getting used to, but you can get to grips
with it eventually. Overall, try a rental first if you're thinking of getting
this title. It's okay for a while but it does start to get a bit samey after
that. If you don't mind that and enjoy mission-based games in the same
environment (and I'm like that with
GTA: Vice City)
then this one could be for you.
GRAPHICS SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC PLAYABILITY ENJOYMENT
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
Graphically Yager is very impressive. It's colourful and flawless, if
a little bit cartoony at times. The music is okay but did seem the same or
very similar to the creepy mission music as Hitman 2. The sound FX are all
around you and certainly worth a listen.
