Even then it was a sneaky bit at the end of the Xbox Series announcement for the game, showing that it would include the shooty-gun planes Mr Cruise flies in the new film. And maybe some aircraft carriers?

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Oh who knows, the whole thing is probably the result of some long lunch between executives at Microsoft and others from Paramount, who all thought it would be terribly good to cross-promote, and then I’m guessing the team at Asobo were told they needed to make it happen.

Top Gun: Maverick had already been delayed twice, from its original intended release date of December 2020, then to July 2021, and then again into November this year. Paramount are clearly not optimistic about the willingness of audiences to cram themselves in to an air-swapping darkened room by the fall, and the movie’s ended up in May 2022. Two years late! All the planes will be so out of date by then! If the very idea of traveling by planes isn’t already anachronistic enough for you.