Metacritic Games

AirForce Delta Storm (Xbox)

Strap into your cockpit and blast through the gut-wrenching world of flight combat. Your adrenaline pumps as machinegun fire pelts off your tail, you execute backbreaking barrel rolls and engage in dog fighting action. Take your pick of over 70 planes, including military fighters rendered from actual aircraft, with a full range of over 50 extreme missions to numb your senses. [Konami]

Konami
Action
Players: 1
E (Everyone)
Developer: Konami
Released November 15, 2001

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

61 / 100

Critic Reviews

82 Xbox Exclusive
My only gripe with the game is that Konami did not include any multiplayer modes.
80 Hot Games
A simple flight combat game with stunning visuals (like most X-Box games, stunning visuals and great game play seem to hide from each other), mediocre sound, and good controls.
80 GameShark
A solid game, especially for a launch title. There's lots of interesting gameplay, hidden missions and a ton of planes to unlock.
71 Official Xbox Magazine
Zippy flight shooter. [Dec 2001]
70 Cloudchaser
Delta Storm’s controlling is efficient and simple.
70 GameZone
It is a challenging program, but lacks a fresh storyline and relies too much on the arcade elements.
70 Yahoo! Games
You really need to get deep into it to appreciate the feel of the individual jets, and to experience some of the better missions.
68 GameSpot
Unlike "Ace Combat 04," however, AirForce Delta Storm lacks the overall gameplay and visual polish that made Namco's game so memorable.
66 GameSpy
Having the option to buy more planes is great, but something that bugged me was that I couldn't upgrade the planes and improve the plane's stats.
65 Game Informer
It didn't take long for disappointment to set in. [Dec 2001, p.109]
62 IGN
It seems we're given the awesome war planes and very little else in the way of gameplay, story or presentation.
60 GamePro
The gameplay, however, isn’t anything that hasn’t been done already, and the paint-by-numbers seek-and-destroy missions can get pretty dull after a couple of hours.
60 GamerWeb Xbox
While the game did have its fun occasions, I was more disappointed then anything else.
58 Cinescape
I can't say the controls are all that precise. While the controls are designed for anyone to pick them up and play (unlike some flight sims where you need to look at a manual before you turn your plane to starboard), they just don't have a good feel to them.
57 Gamezilla!
A mediocre game. While I really, really enjoy collecting the fighter planes available in this game, I could always start a new Micro Machines collection.
55 Electronic Gaming Monthly
A little more fantasy throughout the game might have given ADS the personality it desperately needs. [Jan 2002, p.231]
55 TotalGames.net
A generic air combat flight experience with Dreamcast-quality graphics and a couple of new effects.
40 Xbox Nation Magazine
Crappy cutscenes and first generation PS2 visuals are not so cool. [Jan 2002, p.94]
40 Next Generation Magazine
It’s not bad, but there’s really not anything new to see here. [Jan 2002, p.26]
33 Game Revolution
Despite good visuals, the control is a little too arcadey, missions lack a great deal of excitement and the mission structure leaves a lot to be desired...it's just not that much fun.
33 Gaming Age
An upgraded, yet still very lacking, installment in the air combat series that continues to be outclassed by Namco’s efforts.