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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.

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

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.

Fly The Unfriendly Skies In The South Pacific

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Concept: You are a fighter pilot flying in the greatest air battles in the PTO (Pacific Theater of Operations) during World War II. Your baptism of fire begins during the Pearl Harbor raid, and continues with the island hopping campaigns all the way to Japan herself. Dozens of aircraft are made available in order to accomplish different types of missions.

Graphics: I have found that just about anything made by UbiSoft looks great. Being a big WW2 history buff, especially the air wars, I was absolutely blown away by the awesome quality of the planes, islands and ocean. Explosions were awesome, as were smoke trails left by wounded fighter planes, and water and light effects. Load screens are kinda nifty, in that they look like 1940's movie, military and propaganda posters. Nice touch that adds to the ambiance and flavor of the game.

Sound: Mostly you hear the noise of your fighter's engine, sporatic radio traffic, and the blasts made by your guns and bombs. The sound gets a tad monotonous after a while, as does the inane radio chatter between pilots and ground troops.

Playability: Again, being a history buff, I was excited to play this. Controls are tricky at first, but they are not difficult. My biggest complaint is pretty much the same one I have with most fly-and-shoot games. It seems that YOU are the only pilot in the sky, and you have to perform about 5 tasks at the same time to complete the level. Example: on level 2, mission 3, you need to protect an admiral's staff car while he is being chased by enemy jeeps, while protecting an airfield from enemy dive-bombers, while engaging enemy fighters, then making sure a flying-boat doesn't get shot down, while fending off a sea-borne assault, while defending a cluster of coastal defense guns! WHEW! Where are all of the other friendly fighters doing? Come on...

Overall: You may want to rent this one first. Frankly, I was let down. I was excited by this title, but like most console-based flyers, this one was kinda lame. Another example: An American squadron of Navy F2F Wildcat fighters gets jumped by a Japanese squadron, and you are there to render assistance. The US pilots are low on fuel, and you have only a limited time to save their bacon. Sounds great, right? WRONG! Turns out the enemy fighters are Japanese bi-planes with floats! I'm sorry, but low fuel or not, Wildcats would have shredded the Japanese planes, codenamed "Pete". Again, come on... I TRIED to like this title, but it just wouldn't let me...

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.

Simply fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a hardcore flight sim, this isn't the game for you, but if you are more interested in Dogfighting, then this is the best I have seen in a long time.

The main difference is the number of enemies, some of the battles are huge, no 10 or twenty (SWON style) skirmishes, we are talking about huge dogfights with hundreds of aircraft, just like the real battles.

Lots of planes = lots to shoot at, so the action is pretty relentless.

Plus there are lots of different aircraft to play with, and try some "what if" scenerio's, all in all a great game iuf your a fan of WWII.

A GREAT WW2 Flying Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is what i call a sleeper game in that the title has not been hyped up and no many gamers know about the game. I came across this game at a Best Buy and so i took a chance and gave it a try. The game is right up there with Crimson Skies similar gameplay and graphics which are good 8/10 in my opinion. Lots of missions, dogfights, straffing runs, hitting ships etc. The dogfights in the game were something to be seen, so many planes it looked like a mad hornets nest!! The online game in LIVE is wonderful with vintage WW2 planes going at one another. This is not a renter imo, its one to own and has lots of replay value....if you like flying games this is the one for Xbox you have been waiting for period!!!

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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