> It's the 21st century, and the planet is on the verge of becoming one world order.  Of course, there's militant groups that oppose this world state.  You are in the Energy Airforce, whose task it is to bring about the unification of all mankind and create a true world federation that is without conflict or war.

     > The thing I find too arcade-like is how each aircraft seems to have capabilities dependent upon when you're able to unlock them, and not necessarily realistic to its real-life counterpart.  So that means some aircraft are nerfed, some are realistic and some are juiced.  For instance, the F-14A Tomcat can be loaded with AIM-54 Phoenix missiles, which have an effective range of 75+ nautical miles; except in this game, they have an effective range of about 15 nautical miles -- and that doesn't even go into how the F-14A controls like a slug with a "Slowski" afterburner.  I prefer all around realistic capabilities for the aircraft and their weapons, instead of seemingly achievement-based characteristics.

     > The other thing that really burns me up is how your radar, and that of the AWACS, is very hit or miss on identifying/displaying targets.  You can go right bye some targets and not even know it unless you happen to physically see them, or they start firing missiles at you.  I call this the cloaking effect, and it's not just with stealth aircraft (which I can understand those cloaking).  Also, when you have a target locked, your HUD doesn't always have a pointer to show which direction to turn for interception.  Hmmm... there's always another game down the pike.

     > At any rate, if you don't like dogfighting with unrealistic radar range capabilities (surely added to make battles closer in proximity -- but still not close enough for people who want to visually identify each target), then don't bother going online.  Over G Fighters does have a really neat feature though: every time you go on a mission, you might actually increase your pilot's stats in areas like hit, evasion, sight distance, etc..