LHX Attack Chopper

LHX is acronym from Light Helicopter Experimental.

• Title — LHX Attack Chopper • Developer — Electronic Arts • Publisher — Electronic Arts • Designer — Brent Iverson • Released — * 1990 (DOS) • 1992 (Mega Drive/Genesis) • Genre — Combat flight simulation • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — MS-DOS, Mega Drive/Genesis

In addition to the LHX prototype scout-attack helicopter, the game includes two flyable US Army helicopters the AH-64A Apache and UH-60 Blackhawk and (as of 1990) a prototype MV-22 Osprey (which can actually switch between helicopter and airplane control modes), any of which may be deployed against Soviet-made ground and air military equipment in the three war theaters of Libya, Vietnam and Germany. Allied units are also available, but they do not actively join the fight, nor do the opposing units usually fire upon allied equipment, apart from specific escort missions where a B-2 bomber or a couple of UH-60 helicopters tasked with CSAR will enter into enemy air space. All missile-equipped units (both ground and air) have a limited number of shots, often matching the number of ready-to-fire missiles available in the real system. Land units do not move, but air units do. • Illustration — The game interface for the LHX aircraft The player can play any campaign or mission in any preferred order, facing five different complexity levels, which will improve the enemy's situation awareness, time of reaction and sheer number and quality of the fielded forces. Every completed mission will not affect the other missions or the campaign as a whole, and the player can run the same mission again regardless of its previous result. At the end of every mission, the player receives a mission debriefing describing the consequences of the success or failure, and a point counter will change depending on whether the primary target is completed, whether the pilot landed at an allied airfield and not just in friendly territory, and to a smaller extent on the number of other enemy forces destroyed in the process of reaching and returning from the target area. At the debriefing, given the mission outcome, the pilot may receive different medals or a promotion up to colonel rank. In case the player's helicopter exploded mid-air or crashed, the pilot will die, and the player career will end. If landing in enemy territory, different outcomes are available, with the pilot being captured, killed, escaped to friendly territory, or rescued by friendly forces.