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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 [[Play StationPlayStation 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: [[Air ForceAirforce Delta]] on Dreamcast, Air Force Delta Storm on [[X BoxXbox]], and Air Force Delta Strike on [[PSPlayStation 2]]. All three games feature the same basic gameplay but different plots.
 
 
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==''Airforce Delta'' (1999)==
 
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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 [[X BoxXbox]] in 2001.
 
==''Airforce Delta Strike'' (2004)==
{{quote| "WHERE'S YER DRIVE, GAWD-DAMMIT?!"}}
 
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 ''[[Armored Core (Video Game)|Armored Core]]'', with the ability to select from multiple available missions. This allows players to choose the missions within each "phase" in the order they want. Each phase has specific missions that must be won before the last turn of the chapter or it's [[Nonstandard Game Over|Game Over]]. Late in the game, players may also customize certain aircraft with a space operations-adaptor. Essentially, it's an array of thrusters which when applied, gives all aircraft the same (unremarkable) flight characteristics and weapons load-out. This adaptor is standard for all space missions until the player has the plane, itself refitted for space flight. It also featured a mission map, where the player sometimes had to use up chapter turns to move from one location to another.
 
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 [[X BoxXbox]] for ''Storm'' and finished on [[PSPlayStation 2]] with ''Strike''.
* [[ColourColor-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Radar signatures.
* [[Cool Plane]]: Nearly every single fictional aircraft, and some of the real ones in Strike.
* [[Dogfighting Furballs]]: As per its Duel with [[Ace Combat]], the series is built around these, including some in space.
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* [[Easy Logistics]]: You can never run out of fuel.
* [[Enemy Chatter]]: [[Ham and Cheese|Over the top]] and plentiful.
* [[Enemy -Detecting Radar]]: Par for arcade-styled flight sims.
* [[High-Speed Missile Dodge]]: Pretty standard for the genre.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Pretty standard for the genre.
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* [[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 -to -Ham Combat]]: Most of the [[Enemy Chatter]] in the missions.
* [[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.
* [[Hundred-Percent100% Completion]]: Trying to see all the endings, unlock all the bonus planes and buy every plane, upgrade and weapon.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Several enemy examples throughout Strike
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Some of the unlockable bonus planes.
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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 Thethe Party]]: The plot always leads to missions specific to each individual character's skills, no matter contrived it feels.
** [[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
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* [[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!]]
{{quote| "PUT SOME GAWD-DAMN HEART IN IT!!"}}
 
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