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[[File:Airforce_Delta_Strike_4676.jpg|frame| Where's yer drive? Gawddammit!]]
Often referred to as the [[Dueling Games|Dueling Game]] and Konami's response to the [[Ace Combat]] series, it enjoyed success on the [[Sega Dreamcast]], but less so on the [[
▲Often referred to as the [[Dueling Games|Dueling Game]] and Konami's response to the [[Ace Combat]] series, it enjoyed success on the [[Sega Dreamcast]], but less so on the [[Play Station 2]] due to competion with the aforementioned. For the most part, it was considered inferior to the Ace Combat games due to inferior handling performance of many of its early game aircraft, [[Damn You Muscle Memory|a vastly different default control scheme]](correctable with the fully customizable control settings), and [[Large Ham|hammy]] [[Ham and Cheese|voice]] [[Ham to Ham Combat|acting]].
Oddly, the flight physics were a bit more accurate than the [[Ace Combat]] series. Every plane has specific air-speed windows in which they are most agile; the majority are most agile in the 400-700 KIAS window. Loss of agility occurs both when going too slow (not enough airflow for the control surfaces to bite) or too fast (excess inertia and the plane's own systems limiting airframe g-loads). In addition, planes suffer substantial speed loss while dog-fighting and players have to worry more about keeping their speeds ''up'' to remain agile, whereas [[Ace Combat]] players must regularly apply airbrakes to prevent overshoot or being shaken off.
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Aside from that, the series is notable among flight sim shooters for its wide variety of unique missions, settings, objectives and customizable aircraft. Actual customizing options are limited to weapons and paint jobs but are not locked. It makes heavy use of anime artwork, character designs and anime influenced enemies, plot devices, bosses and cutscenes. There are multiple playable characters with unique personalities, missions and aircraft. Aside from that, a player can fail individual missions, crash or get shot down and keep playing. The player must pay to repair aircraft lost in crashes/shoot downs. Most players just [[Save Scumming|save after each mission success]].
There are [[Rule of Three|three]] games in the series: [[
The Federated Republic of Zabayral, which did not maintain an army, was broken up by ethnic tensions caused by the wake of the [[Cold War]]. Nine years after the accident, a revolutionary army called "The People's Federation" has formed and managed to reunite most of the former republic through force. The last independant nation left standing, the Republic of Laconia, has hired the foreign Air Force Delta mercenary organization to defend itself.
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One of the launch game of the [[Dreamcast]], ''Airforce Delta'' is mostly notable for being an incredibly blatant ripoff of ''[[Ace Combat]] 2'', featuring identical HUD graphics and gameplay structure, aswell as ''very'' similar missions and flight model. However, it's still a fairly fun game on its own, if very unoriginal.
The world is experiencing a population boom after a series of medical advances that made many previously very-lethal diseases easily curable. One of the problems that came along, however, is that basic necessities such as food are spreading increasingly thin in many highly-industrialized nations, who found themselves able to neither import nor produce enough food for their own citizens. These countries banded together to form the "United Forces" and commenced conquest of agricultural lands in the name of "equal redistribution of resources for everyone". Those under the threat of United Forces invasion pooled together their resources under the banner unimaginatively named "Allied Forces" and proceed to augment their strength through recruitment of foreign mercenaries. The player is part of one such unit, the Delta team.
Released for the [[
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Air Force Delta Strike was the last entry in the series and contained no less than 70 total missions--though many are skippable [[Fake Longevity|Stand By Missions]]--on any one story line and some characters' stories had 90+. It also features a level system reminiscent of ''[[
The story goes as follows: In the somewhat distant future, Earth and the space colonies--banded together under the banner of "Orbital Citizens Community"--are embroiled in a major war and the titular Delta squadron, a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]], is right in the middle of it on Earth's side. The OCC have a substantial technology advantage, but the EDAF have (supposedly) greater numbers and are fighting on home turf. The game opens with the OCC occupying roughly 80% of the land.
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* [[Airstrike Impossible]]: Strike has this ''[[Up to Eleven|in spades!]]''
* [[Bigger Stick]]: Getting progressively better planes.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Justified. Slinging missiles & bombs at fighters & other non-biological targets won't produce much blood.
* [[Chasing Your Tail]]: [[Captain Obvious|Duh!]]
* [[Console Wars]]: The series started on [[Sega Dreamcast]], then went to [[
* [[
* [[Cool Plane]]: Nearly every single fictional aircraft, and some of the real ones in Strike.
* [[
* [[Dueling Games]]: The losing end the duel with the [[Ace Combat]] series.
* [[Easy Logistics]]: You can never run out of fuel.
* [[Enemy Chatter]]: [[Ham and Cheese|Over the top]] and plentiful.
* [[Enemy
* [[High
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Pretty standard for the genre.
* [[Improbable Piloting Skills]]: Par for arcade-styled flight sims.
* [[Market
* [[Missile Lock On]]: Par for the genre.
* [[Mission Briefing]]: Every mission starts with a summary of objectives and instructions.
* [[New Game
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness]]: With few exceptions, the later a plane is available, the statistically superior it is. On the other hand, missiles and other special weapons don't get better on later planes.
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* [[Colony Drop]]: One mission has you blowing up a Zabayral satellite about to crash on a city you just liberated.
* [[False
* [[Kaizo Trap]]: Deliberatly averted, in opposition to ''[[Ace Combat]]''. Crashing during the victory fanfare will make the game skip directly to the victory screen.
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer|Absurdly Spacious Subway]]: The subway tunnels where you pull off one of several [[Airstrike Impossible]] missions
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* [[Crew of One]]: In Strike, whenever the player flies an aircraft that in the real world would require a crew of 2 or more, the empty seats are filled in the aircraft's third-person models and the plane is able to execute all functions flawlessly.
* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Though your planes will show some damage as they get hit, they lose nothing in performance or capability until the last hitpoint is removed.
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: For anyone who has played the [[Ace Combat]] games, first.
* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud]]: Operation Racoon Hunt
* [[Downer Ending]]: Jamie's ending in Strike, see [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Lilia and your enemies treat the cadre of pilots with the same condescension right to the very end.
* [[Escort Mission]]: Several, including one where you have to escort a train through a [[Scrappy Level|canyon]].
* [[Evil Is Easy|Evil is easy to smack around]]: Prop-driven fighters in can still hold their own against crack enemy aces flying Mach 2 super-fighters.
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* [[Glass Cannon]]: Jamie's fighters all have low hitpoints and slow speed, but are loaded with guns, rockets and unguided bombs, perfect for racking up insanely high scores.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: The mission where Ruth tries to save a stranded hospital ship. This mission also serves as a major [[Kick the Dog]] moment for the OCC.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: If you complete certain tasks [[Guide Dang It|(unknown to the player)]] through the mid-game, you can get Ellen to change sides and join Delta Squadron during the space portion.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Jamie in the finale of his story line. {{spoiler|Just after deciding that he will take to the sky in a jet if that's what it takes to stay in action, he crashes his F-86 into an enemy mook that was preventing the launch of a shuttle used to ferry the other characters into space, killing himself in the process but allowing the rest of the Delta force to join the impending showdown against the OCC}}.
* [[Ham
* [[High Altitude Battle]]: [[Captain Obvious|Duh!]] However, one pair of back-to-back missions involved fighting at particularly high altitudes to a.) destroy the enemy space elevator that moved reinforcements from space to earth and; b.)destroy the falling fragments of said elevator to prevent major damage to the city below.
* [[
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Several enemy examples throughout Strike
* [[Infinity
* [[Instant Expert]]: All of the characters can switch between planes with ease.
** Averted with Jamie, who begins jet training (offscreen) at an unspecified point in the late game and completes it for his last mission.
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** Played straight when you destroy the giant airships in "The Robbers"
* [[Overranked Soldier]]: Lilia, the 14 year-old Major; handwaved with a few throw-away lines early in the game.
* [[Plot Tailored to
** [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman|This looks like a job for a prop fighter.]]
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The Delta Squadron is this
* [[Rare Vehicles]]: Many proposed, prototype and proof-of-concept aircraft and several examples of Chinese variants of Russian aircraft.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: What else could explain canyons full of giant steam-rollers or fleets of tire-shaped land-battleships?
* [[Schizo
* [[Shout
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Most of the male characters have have physiques more in line with [[Perverse Sexual Lust|professional body-builders]] or fitness instructors than pilots. It could be [[Mr. Fanservice]] turned [[Up to Eleven]] if not for being able to legitimately ask if [[Most Gamers Are Male|any women have ever played the game]].
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The enemy tries this with the Leupold Battery of huge railguns- a Paris Gun on steroids which can also fire flak rounds that can one-shot a bomber formation.
* [[True Final Boss]]: NAVIGATOR in in the final mission for 3rd Element in Strike.
* [[
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: Strike loves to force you to ''[[Airstrike Impossible|fly jets through underground bunkers, down the barrel of giant cannons, into the middle of artificial tornadoes, through twisting canyons]]'', [[Scrappy Level|repeatedly]].
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Jamie's prop planes.
* [[We Do the Impossible]]: Delta Squadron.
* [[World of Ham]]: Part of the fun of Strike is that through the entire game, the ham will give [[Professional Wrestling]] [[Up to Eleven|a run for its money!]]
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