Strictly superior to it's predecessor, F-19. And that's high praise given how great F-19 was/is.


PRO TIPS FROM THE PROS:
- Tired of hearing the engine whine? alt + v will let you cycle through different levels of sound. All but the highest leave out engine noises.
- On a long boring stretch of flying back to your landing site, with nothing to do in the meantime? Alternate hitting shift + z and shift + x every couple of seconds. Shift + z speeds up time, but only seems to work for a few seconds. shift + x puts you back into normal mode.
- The way to earn the big points is on Cold War, not Conventional War. You make more points for flying around unseen than you ever could from blowing stuff up
- If your game is running really choppily and your controls suck, it's not the game. What you're experiencing is lag. "Lag? This game? On my modern machine? How could that be?" Well, DOSBox isn't emulating a modern machine. Throw some more cycles it's way with ctrl f12. Somewhere in the 15000 cycles range will cure all your problems (default is 9000)

More controls here: http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs.php?id=603

Get a joystick.

If you can look past the antiquated, cartoonish graphics, this flight sim will provide you with hours of challenging fun. One of my personal all-time favorites, F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 is the sequel to the ground-breaking 1988 stealth flight simulator F-19 Stealth Fighter. If you like stealth games, this one's for you. Attack Saddam Hussein's palace in the Desert Storm campaign, blow up a submarine pen in the North Cape, take off from Key West, Florida and attack targets in Cuba, storm the Iron Curtain in the Central European campaign, take out (virtual) targets in North Korea, Vietnam, and many other scenarios. Each mission is different; no two missions are alike. Choose between the more realistic Lockheed version, or play Microprose's version (bullets, two more weapons bays, and Sidewinder and AMRAAM air-to-air missiles).

The game comes with the manual (for free) in PDF format. The manual will automatically be downloaded into your "\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\F-117A NightHawk Stealth Fighter" folder when you download the main game itself. You will need the free Adobe Reader to view it. http://get.adobe.com/reader Also, the control instructions are included. The file is called F-177A Key Control Card.PDF and is located in the "Bonus Content" folder. It is a necessity for people who are unfamiliar with the game's controls.

You can use the DosBox DAUM mode for better compatibility with more modern computers. Press Ctrl+V to turn off the shrill engine sound, if it bothers you. Also, to get the game to perform smoother and play faster, go into windowed mode (Alt+Enter) and press Ctrl+F12 several times until it gets up to 15,000 cycles. Make sure you do this before you calibrate your joystick at the game's startup menu. Then you can go back into fullscreen mode (Alt+Enter), if you wish.

Buy this game. Seriously, it's worth every penny. Plus, you'll have it on your Steam account forever.

This game was a re-release of F-19 Stealth Fighter after the world learned of the real F-117A. Those of us who remember F-19, you can select the "MicroProse F-117A" and it's just like flying the old F-19 with the same air-to-air capabilties. This was the DCS of its day. With CH Control Manager my Fighterstick worked like a charm. Ironically 25 years ago I was using either a CH Mach III joystick or the original CH Flightstick.

It's simplestic by today's standards, but I spent a lot of hours playing F-19 and later F-117 as a kid.

Once upon a time there were developers like Microprose which created sims out of pure love for the genre and not just as a way of draining out our blood in the form of micro-transactions or DLCs.
This F-117A NSF 2.0 is a great simulator where you take the role of a rookie pilot who climbs the ladder of military ranks and earn medals by getting points for successfully accomplishing different air to air, strike and reccoinansence missions taking off and landing both from/at airbases and aircraft carriers. You select your route and ordnance and fly through enemy airspace dodging SAMs and avoiding enemy fighters until you reach your target and deliver the fatal blow in the form of cluster bombs, mavericks, iron bombs... or just take a picture of an enemy camp for intel. It depends on your orders. The point that sets this sim apart is that here you fly a Stealth Fighter so you have to take advantage of this fact when plotting your missions.
You may think that this review is biased by the nostalgia of a Flight Sim buff but you shouldn't think so. I've flown all kind of flight sims and I can detect greatness even when it is hidden behind not-so-great graphics and not-so-realistic controls. Just don't let those stop you from enjoying this gem from the past.

I have played this game about as much as any other game ever, not named Railroad Tycoon II or Civilization.

Nothing like cruising along at 198 feet at 40% power, with enemy fighters all around you, while you carefully..slowly, head for home.

This game is the best flight sim I have ever played. The graphics are 20+ years old, for sure..but the gameplay!

If you have ANY interest in the genre, treat yourself to this game! It also has the advantage over the Good Old Games version in that the look up copy protection is disabled. This was a pain in the but..as you had to correctly identify an airplane from the manual...and this meant you had to print out the manual, and they hope the quality of the print was good enough to tell the planes apart!

I highly recommend this game. I have finished this, start to finish, three times of 99 missions each.

Absolute belter of a game. Played this and F19 and the original Gunship! back in the nineties on a Commodore Amiga 500 then on a 1200 Amiga. (also played Gunship! and F19 on a Commodore C64 complete with wire frame graphics!) Later played on a PC not as good as on the Amiga's. but then no PC is as good as the Amiga.
The game still is one of the best OK I am lucky I still got the original manuals, maps and keyboard overlays etc. which makes the games much more enjoyable for me than for those who do not. So here I am a 68 year old playing these games from decades ago which says a lot about the standard of gameplay from Microprose. In fact I am still playing my Microprose collection Gunship!, F19, F117A, Pirates!, Red Storm Rising, etc. on the Amiga 1200 (how many pc's form the eighties are still going strong?) but well done to those involved in bringing this and other classics to a new generation.

17 years.... 17 years and I still haven't figured out the controls.

P.S. Oh ♥♥♥♥! The controls come with the game. TECHNOLOGY.

MicroProse <3 NightDive

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I skipped this back in the day because I'd already had dozens, if not hundreds of hours of F-19 under my belt and didn't see the need to play this one.

Wow, what a mistake.

This has now, for all intents and purposes, supplanted F-19 as one of my favorite flight sims ever. It not only looks better, it has more than twice the amount of theaters to play around in and a lot of other little fixes and enhancements as well.

I'd honestly say, if one were getting into combat flight sims, this one would be a great place to start. It's just such a good game that one could play for eons.