Airforce Delta Strike.(evaluation of video game)(Product/Service Evaluation)

CRISPIN: I usually have a hard time falling asleep on long flights. But I really did conk out during one of Delta Strike's many dull, virtual-lullaby cinema sequences. The game's makers added these sci-fi soap-opera interludes--which star 20 barely animated characters who fight, flirt, and ramble on about government factions--to spice up the series' air combat. But the plot takes tremendous effort to comprehend, and it doesn't help that characters continue to gossip like an old ladies' sewing circle while you're flying missions, when you're too busy busting targets and dodging missiles to pay attention.

Not that the missions do much to wake you up. Although you get 60 …