Eagle One: Harrier Attack is a video game developed by Glass Ghost and published by Infogrames

Infogrames

Infogrames Entertainment SA was an international French holding company headquartered in Paris, France. It was the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, U.S. and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory...

 for the PlayStation

PlayStation

The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...

 games console.

Gameplay

Players assume the role of a United States Marine who pilots a Harrier Jumpjet as well as five other aircraft including a Huey helicopter and an A10 Warthog. Approximately 80% of the single-player campaign is spent piloting the Harrier. The game's objective is to complete missions such as rescuing downed pilots and attacking terrorist targets. Four modes of play are available, a single-player mode, a co-operative two-player mode, a competitive two-player mode and a training mode to accustom the player to the plane's controls. The game's 25 single-player levels take place throughout the Hawaii island chain, and typically involve low-level flight below an altitude of 100 feet. The co-operative mode features 5 missions.

Plot

A group of terrorists calling themselves the Army of the New Millennium has armed itself with soviet weapons technology and declared war on the United States of America, with a stated aim of "freeing the world from the grasp of the American war machine." They have used attacked the Hawaii islands with their electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon to knock out all the electrical devices on the islands. Having accomlished this, the group has moved the weapon to a soviet aircraft carrier and intends to continue their attacks. A Marine pilot is dispatched in a Harrier Jumpjet in order to liberate the five islands in the Hawaii chain.