Blazing Angels dive-bombs PS3

Ubisoft's aerial dogfighter announced for PlayStation 3; game will launch alongside system, make use of motion-sensitive controller.

It's not often that a game announced for a console just three months before the system first hits the market is confirmed as a launch title, but that's exactly what happened today out of Ubisoft. The publisher is bringing its combat flight sim Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII to the PlayStation 3 as a launch title.

The game has already been released on the Xbox 360, Xbox, and the PC, and was also announced as a launch title for the Nintendo Wii. Like the Wii version, Blazing Angels on the PS3 will take advantage of the console's motion-sensing controller, letting gamers pilot their plane by moving the controller. The PS3 edition will also feature new missions, as well as support for up to 16 players online.

Currently in development by Ubisoft's Romanian studio, Blazing Angels puts gamers in the cockpit of a World War II fighter plane. Players will fly through re-creations of some of the war's most famous battles, including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Britian.

Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII for the PS3 has not yet been rated or priced. For more information, read GameSpot's review of the Xbox 360 version.

80 Comments

  • wizardballa03

    Posted Oct 19, 2006 10:15 pm PT

    i think its gunna be a decent game. ill get it to try it out. but only cuz im a WWII buff

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Aug 22, 2006 12:28 am PT

    This game doesn't sound all that great

  • drack48

    Posted Aug 18, 2006 9:45 am PT

    Alright. I got a real nasty email and some big time flaming below, let me clarify. Yes, I meant MGS4 not 3 sorry! I realize 3 never came to the xbox, but the 360 was right on the Horizon. Now, I am a huge MGS fan. I will get a PS3 just to play it. I don't have any concrete evidence that it will be ported to the 360. If it is, I don't believe that it will be done by Kojima's team of course.

    It's just a fealing I have, didn't mean to sound like I had inside info. I just wouldn't be suprised at all if at next year's E3 (or whatever it is now) they announce it will be coming to the 360.

    Bottom line, I'm no fanyboy, just a gamer who has had just about every system since the atari 7800 and I will continue to do so. They all have awesome things to offer and thier will be more cross platfrom stuff between microsoft and sony then there was last gen, since the playing field will be much more equal.

    And please, could anyone who wants to insult me with comments about my mother and how much I suck lose my email adress? THanks

  • anamnawshad

    Posted Aug 18, 2006 2:43 am PT

    They might make it a crappy port........

  • hemakm3

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 4:00 pm PT

    Good news, I guess.

  • comthitnuong

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 10:07 am PT

    i dont think the game will be that great on ps3

  • Paul_TheGreat

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 9:02 am PT

    I'll much rather have Warhawk.

  • AngelCage

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 8:48 am PT

    Oh come on, the game not is crappy or something like that, it only have a BAD mission design and dam-easy difficulty, but i guess UBI knows that already and fix these problems for the Wii-Ps3 versions. PS3 version will have more missions, that's great too.

    Even on the 360 i don't give a 6.9 to this game... a 7.5 fits better, but whatever.

    this are really good news for Sony. Now, Ubi Soft... o_O WTF they LOVE the Wii, and have a LOT of games for the system in work, but the again, they are supporting the PS3 very well too... thats say a lot about the PS3 for me.

  • faridmon

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 7:48 am PT

    hey guys easy there, this game is not that bad as agmespot rated 6.9, maybey 7.8 or something but not 6.9, this game was fun as long at it last, am happy for the PS3 owners (future owners of course) to get this game, but Gamespot is on the way sayiing 6.9.
    and to those who are saying MGS4 will be ported to XBOX360, dudes the Wii has more chance (even with the inferior graphics) because Kojima love the Wii more than the XBOX360, and no he is not MOney slave like Bethesade, Pffff, porting Oblivion to PS3.

  • jofy

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 6:13 am PT

    Dark_Link657
    Dark_Link657
    Yeah, more crap for PS3. I still don't see an amazing launch title for PS3.

    Because youre blind

  • Lord_Regnier

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 5:04 am PT

    wow the PS3 actually gets a game!!!

    it wouldnt be as good a game if sony hadnt copied nintendo.

  • blackleech

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 2:48 am PT

    Which is better... warhawk or blazing angels?

  • neoand12

    Posted Aug 17, 2006 1:05 am PT

    yay Love the the game for 360 (demo) now2 I will buy the game for PS3!

  • _Sam_

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 11:21 pm PT

    This game doesn't seem that great.... but I can't complain

  • _Sam_

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 11:20 pm PT

    This game doesn't seem that great, but I can't complain

  • Jypson44

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 11:13 pm PT

    Blazing Angels sucked and there's nothing a motion sensing controller can do to fix that.

  • standcm12

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 10:27 pm PT

    wow. seems like every day theres a new game using the controller or confirmed for launch! now i'm just waiting for fatal inertia to use the tilt...

  • Pablo620

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 9:40 pm PT

    The launch list keeps getting bigger. Good for you PS3

  • Blinblingthing

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 9:28 pm PT

    @ peteyli

    Bro, I highly doubt that.

  • bpmurr

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 8:23 pm PT

    This game and dive-bomb so go together. PS3 can have it because it was blah on the 360.

  • SecretWasianMan

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 8:19 pm PT

    Its okay man calm down... its okay.... let it out.... let it all out...

  • nintendorocks

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 7:50 pm PT

    So, now this medicore Xbox 360 and PC game will be ported to not only the Wii as a launch title but the PS3 as a launch title...Why is Ubisoft doing this? Ugg...

  • gamer_10001

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 6:49 pm PT

    This game never looked that great to me anyways.

  • JLCrogue

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 6:22 pm PT

    Meh, I've rented that game and Sony Fanboys wouldn't be missing much if it wasn't on the PS3.

  • Superstan

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 6:05 pm PT

    im not expecting much from this title

  • monsteronthego

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 4:52 pm PT

    thekey
    thepeter
    How do you know MGS 4 won't be on 360 2-years down the road?

    i'll answer youe question, by asking you one has mgs3 been ported to the xbox now two or three years after it launched? the xbox mAy have received a port but that was from konami, Now that kojima has his own division at konami i doubt that will happen but that dose not exclude original titles for the 360. WHY IS IT THAT THESE RUMORS ALWAYS GET STARTED When something new for the ps3 is anounced let the ps3 be i got a 360 but you dont see prancing around about how great it is because it is not? (YET) there is only a handfull of good games on the 360 but im sure that that! will soon end come FALL.

  • thekey

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 4:29 pm PT

    thepeter
    How do you know MGS 4 won't be on 360 2-years down the road?

  • Gleba2388

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 4:28 pm PT

    Many games that didn't suceeded in the 360 are being ported to the PS3 to see if they have a chance (Oblivion excluded -- 360's best game)... hope it works! MGS4 WON'T BE multiplatform... don't even dream of it... Kojima said in E3 2005 "I won't commit any of my past errors. MGS4 is exclusive to the PS3"

    Go Kojima!

  • gagan21

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 4:21 pm PT

    this game already sucks , and will not make any difference whether its has motion sensing or not . warhawk will be much better than this

  • eiru

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 4:14 pm PT

    1 more game!!! Take that lemmings... dont pretend you dont are cause you o!

  • Dymedropp3r

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:59 pm PT

    Eh,this game sucks.With or without motion sensing.

  • assassinX01

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:57 pm PT

    good to have another launch time.

  • jackassultima

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:52 pm PT

    IS NOWHERE SAFE FROM 360 FANS BASHING PS3 AAHHHHHHHHHHH

  • thepeter

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:49 pm PT

    MGS4 WILL NOT BE ON THE XFLOP.
    And, my great uncle is gonna be in blazing angels.

  • WolfSkill5544

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:37 pm PT

    I hope that it would be a good game.

  • abdu4

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:28 pm PT

    One more game

  • activematx

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:23 pm PT

    MGS4 wont be ported to the xbox. Trust me on this one bro. Stop spreading rumors.

  • peteyli

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:21 pm PT

    That would be MSG4 that will be on the PS3 first, and yes will probably be ported over to the 360 sometime and it won't be nearly as good. If you've read some of Kojima's interviews though you'd know that he develops them SPECIFICALLY for PS hardware, and the ports are no where close to as good as the originals. That's why every time MSG gets ported over to another system it's been tweaked....i.e. Sons of Liberty became Twin Snake (Game Cube) and Substance (Xbox)...and neither of those was as good as the original. And where's the port of MSG3? That goodness is still just PS2!!!

  • sussexj

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:20 pm PT

    meh, not surprising. The game was crap on 360, hopefully they can fix that. Not likely though

  • drack48

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:05 pm PT

    Come on people you have to know that all kinds of xbox 360 games will port over to the PS3 (saints Row, dead rising, lost planet). Maybe they will change or be "special editions" And here is the God's honest truth and you can all say you herd it here first. MGS3 will be ported to the 360, just like a year after it comes out on ps3.. Mark my words! Resident Evil and GTA are gonna be multi system and MGS will be too...just not right away.

  • the_pars

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 3:01 pm PT

    actually 4quarters...wii HAS REAL motion sensing...PS3 has tilt sensing...completely different

  • bored88

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:58 pm PT

    sub par xbox360 games getting ported to the ps3! Awesome!

  • TribaLFurY

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:48 pm PT

    4quarters

    uhh... what the hell are you talking about? try actually learning about the Wii before you try to diss any console that threatens your precious Sony.

    anyways, have fun PS3 owners, i guess...

  • bossjimbob

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:48 pm PT

    The problem with the Power Glove is that it only worked with two games, versus the Sidewinder Freestyle which worked with any game (which is similar to what the PS3 controller does).

  • 4quarters

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:39 pm PT

    at least the ps3 HAS motion sensitivity, all you fools with Wii (Wii), it's just fun to say that twice....... the Wii will use 3 cameras to track you, good luck balancing those on various furniture pieces around your tv.

  • Danwwu

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:36 pm PT

    "Didn't Nintendo make the Power Glove way before that? "

    Almost true... Matel actually made it:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_glove

  • The_Spoony_Hou

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:27 pm PT

    Microsoft was the first company to break ground in this field, about 7 or 8 YEARS AGO!

    Didn't Nintendo make the Power Glove way before that?

  • smiley17O

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:24 pm PT

    this will suck on the ps3 and the wii.

  • Danwwu

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:23 pm PT

    Atari Jaguar HAD THE COOOOLEST LOGO AND NAME!!!!!

    hahaha

  • dreamcastdre

    Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:23 pm PT

    I hope they improve the game a lot because it SUCKS on the Xbox 360.

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