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Mission Selection and Planning

Big advances have been made in this area with the user being able to select missions in a number of unique ways. On the mission-planning screen you have the choice of selecting either a gun-ship or mission separately, or a mission that already has a gun-ship allocated to it. What this allows is the ability to choose a gun-ship that is at a specific location or Farp and fly that gun-ship on a specific mission located elsewhere on the map. This approach allows users with interest in specific missions i.e. Recon, the ability to pick and choose which missions they would like to fly and which specific airbases or Farps to fly them from. This is just one example of how to use the new mission planning system. My description may seem a little awkward and complicated in its approach, but as with most things in life, when its put into practice it soon becomes second nature.

From the main campaign screen you can switch helicopters mid flight and also have the ability to watch the action of any object on the battlefield from a small 3d-view window. If the action is really heating up you can switch to a full screen view in order to pan or zoom around the selected object. This feature is really nice and indeed I have spent many hours during the game just watching the action from this viewpoint.