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Overview
Race to save the world from an armada of aliens, set to wipe out civilization city by city. Make your way through fully-rendered 3-D environments in this flight and flight quest, to destroy the aliens' mothership by planting a virus in its computer system. Build an armed fleet of mankind's greatest fighter jets -- F-18's, Eurofighters, Russian MIGs and more. One by one, blast each of the giant spacecrafts poised to obliterate New York, Tokyo, Moscow and other world centers. The onslaught intensifies as cities begin to fry and the fate of the Earth falls into your hands.
Trivia & Facts
Once the main objective is completed, the timer drops down to 45 seconds to take out the primary weapon.
Fox Interactive originally announced that the game would be released in late 1997 or early 1998.
This was later moved up to November 22, 1996 in order to coincide with the film's release on VHS, only to be subsequently pushed back to February 1997.
However, a Next Generation critic found the entire multiplayer concept of the game to be flawed: "The only thing more tedious than the one-player game is the two-player game, in which two players (via split-screen or link cable) fly in circles until the words 'target locked' appear on screen.
At that point, both players press fire, and the first one to hit wins." GamePro summarized that "Like the blockbuster movie, ID4 on the Saturn delivers energetic but shallow jet-jockey action." The PlayStation version held a 49% score on aggregating review website GameRankings based on five reviews.
Independence Day is a 3D combat flight simulator comprising 13 missions with time limits; failure to complete a mission in the allotted time results in failure.