Review anarchistica 2/5 · Dec 21, 2021
No mouse aiming... in a flying game
Intro
Red Wings is an arcade flight combat game. You fly around shooting enemies and using four special abilities.
Review
For some insane reason this flying game doesn't use the mouse outside of the main menu. It's such a bizarre choice, and it makes the game really awkward and unpleasant.
Another weird choice is the design of the icons. There …
Intro
Red Wings is an arcade flight combat game. You fly around shooting enemies and using four special abilities.
Review
For some insane reason this flying game doesn't use the mouse outside of the main menu. It's such a bizarre choice, and it makes the game really awkward and unpleasant.
Another weird choice is the design of the icons. There is an icon with an arrow turning around and one with a boomerang. The ability to turn around is activated with the boomerang, the barrel roll with the turning arrow. It's needlessly confusing.
The rest of the gameplay is rather dull as well. Enemy planes show up, you shoot them down and new planes show up. Even the aiming is boring, you don't seem to need to lead your shots.
Red Wings does have decent production value but this obviously cannot compensate for the bad gameplay. I wouldn't recommend this if you (also) got it for free, let alone pay €17 (!!) for it.
3/10
