Chopper Attack
Chopper Attack, developed by SETA and published by Midway in 1997.
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Player's Review
"ACES NEEDED! JOIN AN ELITE GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL CHOPPER PILOTS WITH ONE OBJECTIVE... HUNT DOWN AND DESTROY A RENEGADE TERRORIST GROUP BENT ON WORLD DOMINATION!
Engage and destroy the enemy in 8 different intense missions. Blow up strategic enemy radar. Shoot ground troops and enemy aircraft as you rescue hostages or escort friendly aircraft from dangerous enemy territory. Cash rewards give way to an explosive arsenal of ground and air missiles. Transform enemy installations into explosive fireballs with devastating ground and air target lock-on Cluster Bombs. Fly one of 8 different choppers, each one with different weapon and flying capabilities. Collect power-ups to enhance your chopper's destructive abilities."
Chopper Attack plays like an Arcade game and fairly short overall. The game is split into eight levels each with its own objective although if you want an easy ride through the game you will want to destroy everything and thus every mission is mostly the same. Just going for the objective will make the levels so much quicker but you will lose on on money used for weapons which come in very handy for the final level.
The game is as difficult as you want it to be through the selection of different helicopters with different attributes. More armour allows you to just sit there and take it or you can use a craft that's nimble and easier to fly or one with a high weapon loadout. An important setting in the option is Normal or Expert mode. There isn't really much difference in difficulty between the two settings but you must play on expert to unlock the final level.
The levels are simple enough, just blast all enemies on the ground and in the air. Free some prisoners and unlock the Heli pad so they can be rescued. If you have the money you can choose from multiple weapon types that can help you out. The dummy is handy if a rocket alarm goes off but you barely have a second to react requiring you you to first select the dummy weapon before you can fire it. Building can be destroyed to reveal a weapon powerup raising the power of the vulcan cannon as well as Money bonuses which multiply if you can string a bunch of money boxes together as well as health and fuel when they start to get low. The black box is bad so fly away!
The game features some very Arcady Namco/Sega like music but what should be a fun game ends up being a bit of a chore due to poor controls. Aiming at the enemies is not intuitive, the aiming reticule mostly useless and the homing weapons do anything but home in making them mostly fire and forget. Whilst you can lower and raise the nose of your craft, the height is determines by the terrain making it frustrating to shoot at things above you.
The Longplay firstly goes through Normal mode. Initially this was to unlock a helicopter (according to Gamefaq) but it wasn't to be but it does show the less good ending. Expert goes through all eight levels to reveal the good ending and again no helicopter unlock. And that's not without trying by scanning the level maps in case they are well hidden collectables although there was some strange pyramids and the S letter on the final level which didn't seem to serve a purpose. Maybe there is an unlock method no one has identified yet.
Overall, it's an ok game but its arcade gameplay means its over an hour or so and N64 carts cost a lot back then. Not a great game by any means thanks to its lousy controls and aiming system. The developers obviously didn't think that much to it as there is no credit roll anywhere.
00:00:00 Demo
00:03:45 (Normal) Mission 1
00:10:00 (Normal) Mission 2
00:19:35 (Normal) Mission 3
00:25:00 (Normal) Mission 4
00:34:55 (Normal) Mission 5
00:42:22 (Normal) Mission 6
00:53:05 (Normal) Mission 7
01:04:45 (Expert) Mission 1
01:12:48 (Expert) Mission 2
01:18:50 (Expert) Mission 3
01:23:10 (Expert) Mission 4
01:35:30 (Expert) Mission 5
01:42:30 (Expert) Mission 6
01:51:22 (Expert) Mission 7
02:01:40 (Expert) Mission 8
Engage and destroy the enemy in 8 different intense missions. Blow up strategic enemy radar. Shoot ground troops and enemy aircraft as you rescue hostages or escort friendly aircraft from dangerous enemy territory. Cash rewards give way to an explosive arsenal of ground and air missiles. Transform enemy installations into explosive fireballs with devastating ground and air target lock-on Cluster Bombs. Fly one of 8 different choppers, each one with different weapon and flying capabilities. Collect power-ups to enhance your chopper's destructive abilities."
Chopper Attack plays like an Arcade game and fairly short overall. The game is split into eight levels each with its own objective although if you want an easy ride through the game you will want to destroy everything and thus every mission is mostly the same. Just going for the objective will make the levels so much quicker but you will lose on on money used for weapons which come in very handy for the final level.
The game is as difficult as you want it to be through the selection of different helicopters with different attributes. More armour allows you to just sit there and take it or you can use a craft that's nimble and easier to fly or one with a high weapon loadout. An important setting in the option is Normal or Expert mode. There isn't really much difference in difficulty between the two settings but you must play on expert to unlock the final level.
The levels are simple enough, just blast all enemies on the ground and in the air. Free some prisoners and unlock the Heli pad so they can be rescued. If you have the money you can choose from multiple weapon types that can help you out. The dummy is handy if a rocket alarm goes off but you barely have a second to react requiring you you to first select the dummy weapon before you can fire it. Building can be destroyed to reveal a weapon powerup raising the power of the vulcan cannon as well as Money bonuses which multiply if you can string a bunch of money boxes together as well as health and fuel when they start to get low. The black box is bad so fly away!
The game features some very Arcady Namco/Sega like music but what should be a fun game ends up being a bit of a chore due to poor controls. Aiming at the enemies is not intuitive, the aiming reticule mostly useless and the homing weapons do anything but home in making them mostly fire and forget. Whilst you can lower and raise the nose of your craft, the height is determines by the terrain making it frustrating to shoot at things above you.
The Longplay firstly goes through Normal mode. Initially this was to unlock a helicopter (according to Gamefaq) but it wasn't to be but it does show the less good ending. Expert goes through all eight levels to reveal the good ending and again no helicopter unlock. And that's not without trying by scanning the level maps in case they are well hidden collectables although there was some strange pyramids and the S letter on the final level which didn't seem to serve a purpose. Maybe there is an unlock method no one has identified yet.
Overall, it's an ok game but its arcade gameplay means its over an hour or so and N64 carts cost a lot back then. Not a great game by any means thanks to its lousy controls and aiming system. The developers obviously didn't think that much to it as there is no credit roll anywhere.
00:00:00 Demo
00:03:45 (Normal) Mission 1
00:10:00 (Normal) Mission 2
00:19:35 (Normal) Mission 3
00:25:00 (Normal) Mission 4
00:34:55 (Normal) Mission 5
00:42:22 (Normal) Mission 6
00:53:05 (Normal) Mission 7
01:04:45 (Expert) Mission 1
01:12:48 (Expert) Mission 2
01:18:50 (Expert) Mission 3
01:23:10 (Expert) Mission 4
01:35:30 (Expert) Mission 5
01:42:30 (Expert) Mission 6
01:51:22 (Expert) Mission 7
02:01:40 (Expert) Mission 8
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