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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.

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.

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

Frustrating and Too Difficult

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The old saying is that there is "More than one way to skin a cat." Shouldn't there then be more than one way to win or lose a battle?

I've played this game for weeks, consulted walk-throughs on the Internet, practiced until the wee hours, and I still cannot get past some of the basic early missions. There comes a point where a game is too difficult and no longer fun to play. These are supposed to be GAMES, after all.

"Heroes" has very limited, rigid, and specific ways of completing each mission. Any variation almost always results in failure, which seems kind of lame from a gaming standpoint. You won't have any close victories or marginal losses. You simply must replicate exactly what the programmers want for each phase or you lose. What fun is that?

The graphics are beautiful, the planes and historical information is interesting and fun. But like so many modern games, there is no avenue for creativity or unconventional strategies. What feels like freedom (soaring through the skies) is actually tightly scripted and extremely limited in scope. Deviate and you lose.

In the old arcade days, success was measured by high scores. They were FUN, not a chore. Modern games are all about following instructions, whereby you unlock the next level or vehicle. The experience becomes more of a slog than a game. The goal is to get to the end, not to enjoy the game itself.

Ironically, I really enjoy "Heroes" -- at least up until the point where I get sent back to the checkpoint for the thousandth time with a "Mission Failed" message.

It's a shame because this could be a really fun game to play.

Fraustrating mess posing as a flying game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the worst games I've ever wasted $30.00 on. Problems start right from the training missions. Did the designers even consult a pilot? They kept telling me I "left the flight path," yet never once was any flight path laid out or shown. It finally dawned on me that what they meant was that my plane was leaving the teeny tiny flight area of the teeny tiny map - not hard to do at all - as opposed a flight path, which is a specific vector - a straight line from point A to point B. So here I am, trying to learn how to fly this crummy plane, which has the worst flight physics I've ever encountered, and all the game designers give me is microscopic area to fly in - all the while I've got some corny "voice actor" screaming insults at me. Yeah, great fun. Unbelievably, the game actually goes down hill from here. Don't even waste your money renting it.

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!

You'll look pretty...crashing into the ocean!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I admit I'm not a hardcore gamer. I play for fun not to be challenged. I have a day job and no longer live with my parents. So, that being said, I love the graphics and general concept behind this game but it was just too frustrating to keep at it. Let's just put it this way...it took me a week just to get through all the training missions/tutorial. Once you learn to actually fly and not crash into things, then you have to complete insanley difficult missions against enemies and all the while...manage not to crash yourself in the process. Rent it and set on "rookie" and if you do okay, may be worth plunking down the cash. It's a good balance between a purist flight sim and a bullet spewing arcade shooter style game. Regadless, too much invenstement of time/energy and not enough payout/sucess for me personally.

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.

This is a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the WW2 flying game I've been waiting for. It's only about 1000 times better than Secret Weapons over Normandy, which sucked.

Has lots of replay value, is challenging but not impossible. Has good graphics & good plane selection.

I only wish there were more people playing it on XBox Live. It's great stuff.

Good arcade flight shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I like this game. It is very similar to Secret Weapons over Normandy, but with more depth and challenging missions. In fact, some missions are so difficult I had to switch to "Easy" mode to complete them. There are combined ground targets and dog fights in most missions so the action can get pretty hectic. Graphics and sound are good and the AI seems pretty solid. The enemy planes are relentless. Two minor complaints: you start out with one plane and must complete a mission before another is added. I would have liked to have seen a small selection of planes from the start. Also, the objectives that pop up during a mission are sometimes confusing. You sometimes have to fail a mission to figure out which enemies to attack first. Keep in mind, this is not a flight simulator. It is an action/arcade shooter using planes instead of ground troops.

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