Heroes Over Europe preps for takeoff

Red Mile Entertainment confirms sequel in flight combat franchise will arrive on PS3, Xbox 360, PC.

After a brief foray into the modern era with Heatseeker, Australian development house Transmission Games (formerly IR Gurus) is returning to the retro skies with Heroes Over Europe, a sequel to its 2005 World War II flight combat effort, Heroes of the Pacific.

Transmission Games CEO Mike Fagan recently mentioned Heroes Over Europe in an interview with GameSpot, but the first details of the project were revealed by publisher Red Mile Entertainment today. Set for release on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, Heroes Over Europe will naturally focus on the European front of the war, re-creating significant air battles as gamers follow the stories of a trio of allied pilots. Transmission is building the game off an entirely new engine and promises a variety of new game modes and an online focus.

According to Fagan, Heroes Over Europe has already been in development for a year and a half. The developers still have some time to work on it, as the game is set for release in fall of 2008 for the Xbox 360 and PS3. The PC edition is expected to follow in early 2009.

14 Comments

  • mechworrior762

    Posted Jan 16, 2008 4:12 pm PT

    Uumm....... maybe.
    I'm not getting into the whole argumant below me, but, YOU ALL SUCK!!!!!!!

  • vindesil01

    Posted Jan 3, 2008 8:10 am PT

    twzwain the british sucked for there navy the bismarck took out there pride rms hood suck on that go Germans

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Jan 2, 2008 7:05 pm PT

    hmm

  • glhx1rush

    Posted Dec 19, 2007 4:37 pm PT

    Tyzwain: "the British were the bulk of all air operations in Europe"
    You wanna back that statement up ? How many missions flown, tonnage dropped, total numbers of fighters, bombers........ I think you may be a tad bit off on your statement. We are in need of a serious flight-sim type game for the 360, Microsoft's FS series, with the ability to add mission and aircraft packs from other vendors would be the deal, along with IL-2.... all with online suport of course. So far, all the flight type games have been kiddie arcade games.

  • okassar

    Posted Dec 19, 2007 1:56 pm PT

    Hmm,I haven't heard about alot of games set for 2009 sounding any good,this has some potential.Everyone would like to fight some nice European wars.One thing though,I don't want it to end up like Bladestorm with little depth and too much concentration on history.The game play and graphics better be good by the time it comes out.The planes got to be well-developed too and I would like it if the player had some value.

  • FraserAlexander

    Posted Dec 19, 2007 11:05 am PT

    blazing angels sucks i'm sorry but it does. so did secret weapons over normandy. over-g fighters and ace combat 6 are both ok, but not great. f-19 strike eagle for ibm ps2 ftw. On another note; I wish microsoft would bring its computer franchises to the 360 like age of empires, and flight simulator. why not? it would make the 360 more unique, and slow the need for people to upgrad their pc all the time.

  • Microlynx411

    Posted Dec 19, 2007 7:01 am PT

    British were the bulk of air? the had the largest navy and the spitfire but they werent the bulk.

  • MasterChief725

    Posted Dec 19, 2007 6:43 am PT

    I love flight simulators, Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Ace Combat 6 were awesome. I hopee this one turns out great!

  • tyzwain

    Posted Dec 19, 2007 4:48 am PT

    Playing Blazing Angels and 2, its very American orientated. Hope they get it right, as the British were the bulk of all air operations in Europe.

  • fearrich

    Posted Dec 19, 2007 3:40 am PT

    Well as long as the game says that the british won the 'battle of britain' then I'll buy it. I still haven't forgiven Blazing Angels for that....

  • Yakuz-A

    Posted Dec 18, 2007 4:53 pm PT

    Il-2 series is fun and all but they do have some problems, some of the flight models are way off for some aircraft, and the AI is **** and it CHEATS(It can see through all clouds).

  • BenignSquirrel

    Posted Dec 18, 2007 4:46 pm PT

    Yeah, the IL-2 series has been the king of combat flight sims since it came out years ago! Oleg Maddox makes such good stuff that it's worth waiting for Battle of Britain, but when will it show up? It got announced ages ago...

  • Red-DogBluewolf

    Posted Dec 18, 2007 4:33 pm PT

    Agread Wytefang

  • wytefang

    Posted Dec 18, 2007 3:39 pm PT

    No thanks, I'll wait for Oleg Maddox's next big PC Flight Sim, considering how awesome IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 was. I'd rather wait for that then play some lame cross-platform console twitch-fest.

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