Lackluster Flight Sim Experience
What I was expecting was something in-between an arcade / flight sim experience with killer graphics and a polished / clean feel and to it. Why? Because this is the XBOX 360 and this is suppossed to be Next-Gen; that's why. Because this system has the technical specs that don't limit developers to the game that was produced here. It feels totally uninspired and simply lame especially ao after seeing games like Ghost Recon and knowing what the 360 is capable of in its young life.
The Good: Decent (not fantastic) plane models, quick "next-gen 360 frame rate", carriers, landing and take-offs are included as well as control of landing gear, hook, brake. Acceptable choise of aircraft. Online multiplayer is included.
The Bad: Just about everything else. Textures of anything but the planes are fair to complete junk - very PS2ish. This includes the sky, sun, clouds, ground, water. It's not that some of the textures are horrendous it's just like their team of developers chose not to put any backbone into it; lame. We have higher expectations on next-gen systems. The GUI is crap (what a lame font and white pop up menus - looks like PS1), The Voice acting is crap, the drawn characters and story is crap, the damage modeling is crap because there is none - planes just blow up. Also, the physics feel slow and sluggish even at low altitude flight.
For the love of god this is a sim on the 360 all of this and more make it unplayable. This is too bad because by the number of people that were apparently looking forward to this game there's a desire for a good flight sim on the 360; this is most definately not that game.