First released in December 1997, Digital Image Design’s F-22: Air Dominance Fighter is a classic combat flight sim that was nominated “PC Simulation Game of the Year” and “Simulation Game of the Year” losing out narrowly to Jane’s Longbow. F-22 is back with a surprising announcement that MicroProse is publishing the classic title, re-released on Steam, with some updated features to keep it running in the modern era. Let’s have a look!

Flying the F-22

F-22: Air Dominance Fighter is a classic 1990s mix of reasonably deep simulation of sensors and systems (for the time) combined with easy controls and realistic scenarios. The sim has 80 missions set in the Red Sea region putting you both in the seat of the F-22 as well as giving you the ability to command the air war as AWACS commander.

This re-release is comes with some updates that include 6-degrees of freedom head tracking, achievements, mod support, and the ability to choose between original 320×200 resolution or up to 4K resolution with modern anti-aliasing. Widescreen is also supported! The total number of updates is listed as 100 by the developer.

DID also reports that they are using this release to test the waters and see if other classics might be worth updating as well. DID was responsible for a number of well regarded titles back in the day including TFX (1993), EF2000 (2001), and F-22: Total Air War (1998).

The re-release is planned to come out on Steam on February 17. No pricing is available yet.