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If you can find the incredible price tag and enjoy complex flight simulations then this offering from Sublogic could be for you. But here at C&VG we reckon that any Microprose flight simulation knocks the socks of this American offering. And Wild Bill's flight sims come at half the price!

Like all flight games, you begin at the menu screen which offers you a choice of five different scenarios, dogfight, target strike, free flight or demo. You also get the option to load in "scenery discs" which are an optional extra.

Then you get a chance to select practice or difficulty levels before going onto the next selection screen which allows you to fly either an F16 Fighting Falcon or an F18 Hornet.

It's best to sort out the controls before you blast off - and here Jet is amazingly difficult for the beginner or first time player. Lots of shift/key combinations to deal with which make flying the thing a difficult job indeed. About the only thing you can do via the joystick is to control the jet's altitude and fire the selected missiles. And the response time to your control instructions is much too slow.

You'll find yourself making use of the eject mode quite a bit - a nice touch, probably the best thing about the whole game!

Jet isn't a simulation for the novice fighter pilot - and frankly the huge price tag just isn't justified by the product.

C&VG's test pilot would go for Solo Flight or Acro Jet instead.