I found I couldn’t make my mind up whether I wanted to use a controller, or my CYBORG joystick. The controls can be very irritating at times. I say old fashioned because that’s the kind of feeling I felt when playing TOP GUN: HARD LOCK, more of an early noughties game than something of today. Instead it’s good old fashioned flying and air to air combat. Well to start with there are no shower/locker room levels in this game, or in fact anything to do with riding motorbikes against horses (which might have been fun). So we come to the game TOP GUN: HARD LOCK by 505 GAMES. In fact I agree with Sid from SLEEP WITH ME regarding the true meaning of TOP GUN, the best explanation of the film ever! OK fair enough, the bits without TOM CRUISE in are fine (the flying sequences that is) apart from the annoying radio chatter, and the fact that they are hinting at TOP GUN 2 has highlighted the genre again. It was typical of that period of excess and shallowness, the theme tune is one of the lamest tunes of the 80’s and I cannot get all misty eyed over it. yes folks! I am talking about TOP GUN (in case you were thinking of something else).
That was a time when you could spend money! Of course who could forget one of the biggest movies of that period. It’s the 1980s again wide shoulder pads, big hair, loads of makeup and that’s just the men! Yes, some of us remember that period of excess only too vividly.