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good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is actually a very fun shooter-type game. I wouldn't call it a flight simulator as the physics don't feel too realistic, but nevertheless, it's very fun. In a videogame, what more could you ask for?

The missions are actually somewhat engaging - the cut scenes are nice and add some historic background to what you're doing. It would've been nice, though, to have some kind of pilot interaction between missions like you did in the Wing Commander series.

Anyways, I only have a few complaints:
1) Of all the planes you can unlock, why isn't the Me-109 an option? The 109 was the backbone of the Luftwaffe, and a very beautiful machine to look at. Some of those planes they added in the game never saw action in the war.

2) There's not much room for maneuver. Although the flying isn't as restricted as Star Wars Battlefront, you still have to turn your plane around because of the limited flying space. Also, your plane stalls before you can reach a nice altitude. If you try a split-S, you'll barely clear the ground as you pull up.

3) You should have way more options for Instant Action. In all of the flight games I've played, you could always tweak the number of opponents and what kind of plane they fly in. Here, you can only pick your plane type, the map, and the difficulty level. I wanted to setup a few sorties where I fought Yak's in my FW-190.

4) The game is a little too user-friendly for beginners. On Ace Level, the computer is still pretty darn easy. You have to fly on Professional Mode to add any sort of challenge for newbies.

5) It would've been nice to see a limit on ammunition. This would prompt gamers to be more accurate with the trigger. If there was a cap on ammunition, I never noticed it.

do not buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

impossible to customize or adjust sensitivity and thus not playable

Amazing!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. The controls are hard at first. But as you get used to it, it becomes easier. The graphics are very real. The real footage from World War II is really neat too. Best flying game yet!

Incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a wonderful game with a very simple control scheme, as well as considerably nice graphics. The planes were very precisely detailed, with realistic flight mechanics and abilities unique to each fighter. The Zero really falls apart like the wood it is made of, and the Wildcat really can't turn for its life. The battles are fairly accurately set up, and you can actually learn history from playing this game. The historical missions are also a great extra, giving you the chance to play realistic situations from the accounts of real pilots, like the P-38 Lightnings intercepting the Japanese Admiral Yamamoto in his Betty Bomber. The dialogue could be better, but it does capture the general mood of the game. Finally, the sheer number of planes available is quite impressive, and once you unlock and upgrade all of the planes, you can jump from the early-war P-40 Warhawk to the post-war P-80 Shooting Star, with all of the planes between.

Finally, a flight game on xbox with real physics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

And what better setting than the Pacific theatre where the Greatest American pilots duked it out with the best aviators of the east. Never again in history will we see airial combat in the like, and now we can be a part of it with real flight controls of roll, pitch, and yaw, the only flight game I have found on xbox with these true controls.

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