B17 Fortress In The Sky

by Zoo Games

Product Features

• 25 heart-pounding missions over France, the Netherlands, and Germany itself.
• Man each gunner position, avoid deadly flak encounters, drop your bombs accurately... and once you've done your job for Uncle Sam, you're flying for yourself, back home and to the waiting ticker-tape parade!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HKIOH4
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,417 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Your Nintendo DS system comes alive with the sounds of the battle for aerial supremacy against the greatest evil of the 20th Century. "B-17 Fortress in the Sky" puts you in the heart of the air war over Germany and the occupied territories in the autumn of 1944.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the game, October 21, 2007

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Jacque Garcia "Jacque Garcia" (Dallas, Tx USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: B17 Fortress In The Sky (Video Game)

This game was pretty good.

I thought that it was going to be bad but it was actually pretty good, the levels were just a little to easy though. Overall it was good. I recomend that you shoud buy this game.

I was getting bored of my nintendo ds and then i bought this game and now i play it all the time. When you play the game over agian you don't even realize the difference from when you first played it the first time. You got to do everything, shoot the planes, fly the plane, drop the bombs, everything. The only thing I have agianst the game is that you fly solo and not with other planes. Its awesome, still buy it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Repetitive eventually equals boring, November 24, 2009

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NYJ (Atlantic Coast, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: B17 Fortress In The Sky (Video Game)

Having finished some of my other games, I decided I'd devote time to B-17 "Fortress in the Sky". I started the game on "Novice" level to see if I could pick up the controls and game play quickly. The controls are very easy to handle, with the "A" button used for firing (and dropping bombs), the directional pad for moving your guns (and airplane), and the shoulder buttons for cycling through the nine machine gun positions on the B-17.

Each mission starts with a briefing where you are shown your main target with a history of the objective. Then you are brought to a page which lists your secondary targets as well. You watch your plane take off and are then immediately placed into a gunners position ready to fight off the "Jerries" (slang for Germans). In this first stage you fight off waves of German planes utilizing your nine gunner positions. All you do here is switch between the positions to get airplanes coming at your from various positions. Once you fight off the initial wave you are then put in charge of the plane to dodge flak. Really here all you are doing is moving the plane left to right to avoid the flak clouds. There is no changing altitude, no changing speed, no firing guns, no dropping bombs. Just moving left to right. Then you fight another wave of fighters. Once this "third stage" is complete, you are put in the Bombardier position with a bomb reticule where you search for your targets (bridges, factories, AA gun positions, boats, airfields) and drop bombs on them. Here you're either pressing "A" to release an endless supply of bombs, or changing your altitude and moving left to right to line up your shot. Once this stage is done, you go back to fighting back one last wave of fighters on the return home.

This pattern repeats itself for twenty five missions. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that while the missions are "different" they're not. There are several stages where you have to bomb bridges, and while the bridges are given different names, the map is the same. Same goes for the airfields, and the factories, and the submarine hangars. This game is essentially the same five or six stages repeated over four to five times.

Highly disappointing.

The only thing that saves this game from being a 1 is that fighting off the waves of fighter planes can be fun.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a basic game to pass the time, April 22, 2010

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B. ENG (NORTH CAROLINA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: B17 Fortress In The Sky (Video Game)

Unlike some of the other buyers, I am NOT a hardcore "Gamer". I bought this game for it's simplicity. I wanted something to pass the time and have a little fun with. This game has just enough variability to be interesting. It wasn't difficult to play and was just what I wanted....to enjoy...not to be frustrated.