Lock On was developed by Eagle Dynamics (known as Flying Legends back in the 90's) and published by Ubisoft in late 2003. It's a successor of Flanker series. First Flanker debuted on PC DOS in 1995 and featured one flyable plane - Sukhoi Su-27 and Crimea region as a theatre of operations. Subsequent releses introduced new flyable planes - Su-33 (Flanker 2.0) and maritime version of MiG-29, the MiG-29K (Flanker 2.5). LO:MAC added few additional airplanes: Su-25 Frogfoot, MiG-29A Fulcrum, and highly anticipated workhorses from USAF - A-10A Thunderbolt II and F-15C Eagle. Based on that engine ED released Flaming Cliffs, Black Shark, Flaming Cliffs 2, A-10C and eventually it all ended with DCS World which is the premiere platform for military sims today. I'm playing a user-made campaign for A-10 which you can still download here: The game is updated with the 1.02 patch. Due to problems with object self-shadownig on Nvidia cards I had to disable this feature. Considering it was released 14 years ago the game still holds up nicely even today. Back in 2002/2003, when no one even heard of YouTube - you had to download trailers from internet, anyone remembers FileShack? Anyway, I remember seeing a trailer/gameplay video of LOMAC - in cockpit view of MIG-29 flying low level with all the trees, buildings and smoke chimneys passing by and with working mirrors. I had to collect my jaw from the floor. It was the best looking sim on the market, but it lacked the immersion of flight sims from previous decade. I still have the first release in big box, unfortunately they didn't added proper thick manual to go with it, only 48 pages long booklet, so I was a bit dissapointed. Enhanced manual can be found here:
