Team Apache is a different kind of sim. It falls into a nether region between Comanche and Longbow for realism and playability, but offers some unique elements that have not been seen before in a sim. The trade-off is downplaying realism of systems and flight modeling in order to focus on realism of command and the battlefield situation. The result is a whoppingly entertaining game.

Team Apache was, along with Flying Nightmares 2, one of the titles jettisoned by Eidos after producer and former Apache pilot Bryan Walker left for Jane’s. SSI/Mindscape snapped up Team Apache and saw its UK-based developer, SIMIS, through the final stretch. Knowing they were not going to be able to compete with the rigorous modeling of Longbow 2, they decided to pitch it as an upper-mid-level sim in terms of realism - a game that was more readily playable than Longbow, yet more accurate than Comanche, but with its own twists. Those twists, and the sharp graphics engine, are what make the game.

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