Status Chovus Apr 15, 2019
Tried to play this and can't stand it. I completely failed the first mission because I did not know you had to manually load each plane with bombs and such and had to destroy warships with nothing but machine guns. Maybe it could have worked eventually, but I decided to restart.
I like the concept (2 squadrons go up against …
Tried to play this and can't stand it. I completely failed the first mission because I did not know you had to manually load each plane with bombs and such and had to destroy warships with nothing but machine guns. Maybe it could have worked eventually, but I decided to restart.
I like the concept (2 squadrons go up against each other and then the winner has to destroy the enemy base, with split screen multiplayer and what seems like a longer campaign where damage and losses carry over), but the execution is poor. The split screen is still there for the AI, which I don't like. Dogfighting is terrible; there are no fancy maneuvers or shot leading. You can only hit an enemy when the game decides you are close enough and there is a very small window when the enemy is close enough. The only way I could beat an enemy was either by starting off behind them, letting them overshoot me while getting shot at or using the tail gun on a bomber. None were all that reliable though. I tried just using turbo mode and flying around until the enemy ran out of fuel, but that does not work because it seems there is a boundary on the playable area. I found the dogfighting excessively difficult on normal and had to bump it down to easy, which was too easy (but still annoying).
Attacking the enemy base was ok, though after winning I had to land every single plane one at at time. Seriously? I can't bring myself to play this again.