Fun, but repeditive
User Rating: 7.5 | Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII X360
Blazing Angels is a fun arcade flight combat game that does a lot of things right; however the game gets boring too quickly. The game flies very well and extremely easy. The learning curve is quick and intuitive, and even finding your next enemy target is easy with the view lock option that let's you fly your plane while looking at your target. This views offers some neat angles of your aircraft that you would not get to see otherwise. The weapons feel powerful, and shooting down an enemy plane is rarely tough. In fact, many times it is too easy. On the other hand, there are several missions that will have you throwing your controller against the TV because of either poor level design, insane ratcheted difficulty, or you are just confused out of your mind as to what you are supposed to do. Each mission takes about 10 minutes or so, which is what leads to the game's repetitive nature. Every mission seems to shape up along the lines of protect home base from enemy bombers and fighters, then go hunt and kill the rest. Occasionally you will get to dive bomb ships, or make a torpedo run now and again, which break up the gameplay, but are too rare for my tastes. The game is fun to play, and if you are looking for something similar to Crimson Skies for the original Xbox, this is a good filler (plus you get wingmen to control this time around).
