The fighter is equipped with a M61 Vulcan and three different kinds of missiles, Sidewinders, AMRAAMs and Mavericks.

F-15 Strike Eagle II comes with four scenarios: Libya, Persian Gulf, Vietnam and Middle East.

Strike Eagle II was very similar in both appearance and game play to MicroProse's previous release, F-19 Stealth Fighter.

In 1991, a scenario disk was released called F-15 II Operation Desert Storm.

[1] 1992 and 1994 surveys in the magazine of wargames with modern settings gave the game three and a half stars out of five.