Echelon
It's the year 2351, and you're a pilot trying to rise through the ranks all the way to glory. As a member of the Galactic Federation, you'll be granted more than 20 weapons to use in each pass-fail mission…
Echelon is a simulator developed by MADia Entertainment, released 15 April 2001 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Echelon is
Echelon is a simulator game developed by MADia Entertainment and released in 2001. It was published by Buka Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It's the year 2351, and you're a pilot trying to rise through the ranks all the way to glory. As a member of the Galactic Federation, you'll be granted more than 20 weapons to use in each pass-fail mission. Your goal is to defend the planet from attacking alien forces, and you'll put your skills into play across more than 30 campaigns. There's a huge list of aircraft for you to tame ranging from helicopters and planes to high-tech hovercraft. With 100 vehicles in all, deadly enemies, and 3D graphics, ECHELON is one far out trip through the solar system.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Echelon holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Echelon launched on 15 April 2001, within three weeks of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Worms World Party, Flower, Sun, and Rain and Tropico. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Worms World Party, Flower, Sun, and Rain, Tropico.
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