TU-95 Game
February 21, 2010
TU 95 – Fly With Flash
TU-95 (Which stands for Tupolev 95) is a Flash airplane simulation game. If there’s one thing I know about flight simulators it’s that they are difficult. TU-95 is of course not a fully functional flight simulator, but it does have some of the classic characteristics of one.
In the top right is the face of a Russian man who will be your instructor through your training missions. By the end of your training you are supposed to have all the skills necessary to become a successful Soviet bomber. Wait, what? Does this mean I’ll be bombing American soldiers? Awkward. Now I know how Japanese and German people must feel when they play Call of Duty and Medal of Honor.
In the top left corner of the screen is a GUI which contains your rader, height, and speed. Your job is to take off, do what’s requested of you, and then land the TU-95 in the next aiport. You have a key that controls your wing flaps and can be set to three positions: take off, normal, and landing. Along with your normal movement keys, you also have a key that will raise or lower your landing gear, perform your “mission move” (like dropping a bomb), and a key that bails you out of the plane. I’m not quite sure of the purpose of that last one since you fail the mission if you do it anyways.
I would love to go more in depth, but I unfortunately was not able to even pass the first training mission. The TU-95 game is more challenging and in-depth than your typical flash game, and if you’re someone with a little more extra time to devote to getting the hang of it then you might just find TU-95 a very enjoyable experience. Heck, you might even make it to the actual game!
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