Background
Strike Fighters Project 1 was released in 2002. The initial reviews were of a poor unfinished game that had some exceptional 3D models of aircraft. In fact an early unfinished release of the game was sold by the leading US chain store, possibly in the publishers haste to get a game on the shelf. European users were sold a version already installed with "Service Pack 1" which had rectified many of the initial problems.
What had been released turned out to be really the starting point for a game that would improve vastly over the next few years. The developer continues to support the game with constant updates and patches (major updates are called Service Packs and there were 4 of them by 2007). Not only that, the game was designed to be moddable, and any players who had experience making computer 3D models could also add new objects for the game. First two years, the modding centered around a limited online community, but their initial work was to allow the start of a vast number of modifications and improvements to the basic game later in its life.
Currently there are thousands of free modifications for the game, most of them to a very high commercial standard. The strength of the game lies in what the game player can make of it because about 95% of the modifications can be carried out by anyone.
Read more about this topic: Strike Fighters: Project 1
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