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Beautiful-- but deadly!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: October 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

BLAZING ANGELS 2: SECRET MISSIONS is a drop dead gorgeous game...with some of the most exciting airplanes ever invented...or NOT invented. Its a "what if" World War 2 scenario, pitting your team of Allied pilots in desperate missions against Axis "super weapons of the air". Its a lot like "Crimson Skies"...and is a graphic joy. That being said, its almost incredibly hard. The missions are multi-part, and are sometimes so vague or confusing as to their goals, that you die or run out of the time-limits many too many times. Some missions mix straight forward bombing and strafing missions with incredibly difficult precision attack targets. Its fun, its challenging, but I found it ultimately frustrating. Now I'm an "older" gamer, and my reflexes are not up to the younger "Top Guns"...so if you're a hot fighter jock, pick up "Blazing Angels 2"...you'll enjoy the challenge.

2 is better than 1

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, graphics wise this game looks very nice. It's def. a upgrade from BL1 due to the fact you can completely customize your aircrafts. You can change the colors, icons, and even unlock "parade" or "special" paints for them. Of course beating the game all the way through and getting ace on each mission will unlock every aircraft but you can also unlock weapons. The game progresses from props to jets like in the first one but now you can homing missiles and when you choose your aircraft you can equip them to make for easier air combat (but doesn't change ground combat).

You are also able to buy upgrades to your aircrafts from the points you recieve from missions. Like: more armor, stronger weapons, smarter teamates, higher scores, etc... I found this game to be great do to the fact the customization of everything which the first blazing angels lacked.

However, what comes with great has to come with bad in this game. Some people look for great cinematics with games and a great story line. I will give the game props for being creative with what the germans "might have or might not have" done and the aircraft but the cinematics are frustrating cause they make it like a chincy comic look (frame by frame). Highly annoying for the people similar to me that like to sit back and enjoy some nice graphics/story line/and great cinematics (kinda like a reward for your achievement of completing a couple of hard missions).

I found this game (like the first one), once you get use to the aircraft and controls again its fun and easy. Also, the main thing i CANNOT knock this game for is the ability to land and take off which most other flying games don't have. The first one had it and they kept it in this one. Good job on you for that. So overall this game is great and i'm rating it a 4 but don't look forward to anything visually interesting between missions.

Great fun & action.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Blazing Angels 1 & 2 I purchased together,as I am a big fan of WW ll shoot em'ups I have been mowing through BA 1 on the campaign trail but then went online (multiplayer) on Blazing Angels 2 which turns out to be great fun and the graphics are superb, I am totally hooked on this game, flying around in either squads or dogfighting on line is really a great experience. Choose a plane to fly against someone else around the world, either Cairo, Sweden, Rome ect and just put yourself up against the best pilots.

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