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Crispin Boyer and Sushi-X found the oversensitive controls with no support for analog controllers to be an annoyance which greatly aggravates the already frustrating difficulty; Boyer elaborated that "you're forced to tap, tap, tap until you're on target."
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packs a lot of action between its campaign, arcade, and six-player network modes, so it'll keep you occupied for a long, long time. And you can bet you'll be gawking at its visuals all the while." He lauded the peripheral vision afforded by the game's
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Reptons, the Reptons send their best pilots to kill the player character. The player character escapes and jumps to
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The player pilots one of three different starfighters, each with different strengths and weaknesses, and occasionally a captured enemy ship, or controlling a
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game consoles. Players take on the part of a contemporary human fighter pilot abducted by the
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species during an aerial battle, and biologically modified to become a
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904:"Review: Darklight Conflict"
886:. October 1997. p. 169.
596:both felt it hurt the game.
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230:against the Evil Ovon race.
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1079:PlayStation (console) games
989:Sharpe, Peter (July 1997).
835:"Darklight Conflict Review"
799:"Darklight Conflict Review"
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914:Emap International Limited
744:Emap International Limited
725:. April 1997. p. 108.
651:"Even More Games Shipping"
242:Cockpit view (DOS version)
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538:Electronic Gaming Monthly
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159:Space combat simulator
1069:Electronic Arts games
265:2001: A Space Odyssey
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991:"Darklight Conflict"
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909:Sega Saturn Magazine
739:Sega Saturn Magazine
687:PlayStation Galleria
661:on February 18, 1998
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1039:Darklight Conflict
833:(August 1, 1997).
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528:display, the high
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978:on 24 March 2016.
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553:Wing Commander IV
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665:December 5,
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439:6.6/10 (PS)
437:7.9/10 (PC)
342:Publication
221:starfighter
206:Sega Saturn
173:multiplayer
109:PlayStation
70:PlayStation
61:Platform(s)
1053:Categories
778:Ziff Davis
697:January 8,
636:References
530:frame rate
317:Aggregator
276:deathmatch
252:mothership
248:gun turret
204:, and the
190:video game
1064:DOS games
1044:MobyGames
564:. He and
502:86% (SAT)
308:Reception
303:Reception
145:July 1997
129:June 1997
840:GameSpot
804:GameSpot
655:PC Gamer
512:GameSpot
490:89% (PC)
432:GameSpot
330:67% (PS)
256:asteroid
234:Gameplay
154:Genre(s)
1016:GamePro
620:GamePro
575:GamePro
352:AllGame
165:Mode(s)
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217:Repton
202:MS-DOS
134:Saturn
84:MS-DOS
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