Feels just like every other arcade flight game I've ever played....
Well first, let me talk a bit about the game. So basically its an arcade flight sim. You have 3 campaigns (Britain, Germany, and Russia), there are 3 chapters for each of the campaigns, and each nation has 4 planes for you to choose from (But you gotta unlock them first). The campaigns are non-linear so when you die or fail a mission that doesn't mean that you "lose" or have to start over again. You just continue with what you got and it will probably effect you as time goes on. If you don't like the single player campaign you can always play online but no-one is ever online so I have yet to play it online. I have tried playing with my siblings on LAN and it was fun. There options were average. All you had to do to set up a server was choose the location, the weather, season(winter or summer), the time limit, and finally the game mode. There are only two options (deathmatch and teamdeathmatch) which dissappointed me. I wish that they would've added a way for us to play co-op but other than that multi was okay. Pros:
- Easy to pick up and play.
- Non-Linear campaign.
- Good-old fashion shooting.
- Covers a lot of famous battles in world war II such as the battle of britain, D-Day, the battle of the bulge, the battle of berlin and well you probably get the point. There's a lot of them.
- A good variety of TYPES of airplanes but within each type there are only about 3 and that's one for every nation so I don't think it is actually a lot. The actual total of airplanes you can fly are 12.
- Multi/Lan can actually be fun., but will probably get old after a while.
Cons:
- Some graphical glitches here and there. Nothing that will kill the game. It's just annoying.
- No-one is ever online to play.
- If you prefer games like il2 or Bob2 then stay away from this game. It's pure arcade. Flight models and damage models are weak. All planes of the same type feel the same when flying. The only difference that I felt was the way they look and for some their load out.
- So-So to good graphics. Explosions are a bit weak.
- Sound is a beat weak as well. There are no voices in the game. Nothing! There's music that just repeats itself but you can turn it off if it annoys you.
- Dull mission objectives and sometimes they can be unclear.
- limited multiplayer options.
This game is pretty good in my opinion. I like the fact that the campaigns are non-linear even though it may be the same kind of missions (blow this up, shoot this down, protect these things), but it's all still very fun for me to play. In the end, it all comes down to your preference I guess. Just make sure that ,if you really want to buy this game, get it for something cheap.