solypsist
08-16-2004, 08:01
some sites:
http://www.gamerswanted.com/platform/pc/6419/
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/wingsofwar/
if you liked Crimson Skies, then you'll like this game. It's an arcade-style World War 1 flight game (joystick) with a campaign, internet multiplayer, and "instant action" dogfight option.
I'd been lookin for a good, fun joystick game for a while, but didn't like fiddling with all the technical stuff (like clean landings) so this game looked good. I got an offer to beta for this game ,and took it up because...well why not?
I wasn't expecting much: how teeth-grinding can flying a single-engine biplane be? You use binculars to see, drop bombs manually (look down and let go!) and the primitive machine gun takes forever to down an enemy.
The campaign includes several items: dogfights, bombing runs, barnstorming, etc. Also thrown in are (to me, unrealistic) plane rockets, in an effort to compete with previously more flashy flight games. While it cuts down on mahcine gunning one enemy for five minutes, and looks good, I dislike this particular indulgence.
It doesn't take long to get drawn in, the fun British voices (no radios, but hey, you can hear banter!), period music, and the, "Aaarrggh!" of downed enemies makes for a good time.
Yeah, you have to take off and land, but it's easy.
Good points: good action, enough variety in mission objectives, good camera controls, uncomplicated keyboard commands, 3D game engine has good ambient effects (lens flare, smoke).
Bad points: borders on historical plane and fantasy: afaik, biplanes couldn't carry 40 bombs and release their payload at one every second, but the machine gun can overheat, and your engine is finicky, like I imagine a real biplane would be. Nice views of historical battles/battlefields with ground action to compliment the sky action(the Somme was impressive.)
ships Aug 16
http://www.gamerswanted.com/platform/pc/6419/
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/wingsofwar/
if you liked Crimson Skies, then you'll like this game. It's an arcade-style World War 1 flight game (joystick) with a campaign, internet multiplayer, and "instant action" dogfight option.
I'd been lookin for a good, fun joystick game for a while, but didn't like fiddling with all the technical stuff (like clean landings) so this game looked good. I got an offer to beta for this game ,and took it up because...well why not?
I wasn't expecting much: how teeth-grinding can flying a single-engine biplane be? You use binculars to see, drop bombs manually (look down and let go!) and the primitive machine gun takes forever to down an enemy.
The campaign includes several items: dogfights, bombing runs, barnstorming, etc. Also thrown in are (to me, unrealistic) plane rockets, in an effort to compete with previously more flashy flight games. While it cuts down on mahcine gunning one enemy for five minutes, and looks good, I dislike this particular indulgence.
It doesn't take long to get drawn in, the fun British voices (no radios, but hey, you can hear banter!), period music, and the, "Aaarrggh!" of downed enemies makes for a good time.
Yeah, you have to take off and land, but it's easy.
Good points: good action, enough variety in mission objectives, good camera controls, uncomplicated keyboard commands, 3D game engine has good ambient effects (lens flare, smoke).
Bad points: borders on historical plane and fantasy: afaik, biplanes couldn't carry 40 bombs and release their payload at one every second, but the machine gun can overheat, and your engine is finicky, like I imagine a real biplane would be. Nice views of historical battles/battlefields with ground action to compliment the sky action(the Somme was impressive.)
ships Aug 16