Customer Reviews

B17 Fortress In The Sky

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

This game is one of the best unknown DS games. Its controls are very easy and simple to use. The creators of this game mastered all viewpoints of the different crew positions. You play as every crew member, from the pilot to the bombadier as well as the gunners. Its very easy to pick up and play a mission. I love it and its one of my favorite DS games.

Don't expect too much from a flight sim on the DS - its just not gonna be like any other console.
But as far as the DS goes, this game is fun and will help you kill some time.

Puchased for a 6yr old boy. I wanted a flying shooting game, and it's exactly what I was hoping for. Easy to play.

I dont have anything negative to say about this game. My son got it for christmas and played it for a few hours that morning. He got a lof of other things that have distracted to be focused on any one thing. But I think he was pleased with the game. I think the price was right and made it a good buy. I'm sure he will play with it more once the other things wear off.

This game has to be the best game to come down the pipe since Pong I highly recommend this game to anyone that likes video games.

I was hoping this would be an attempt at a 3D combat flight simulator, but I was very disappointed. This poorly implemented shoot-em-up is repetitive and tedious after a few minutes of play. The 3D graphics are almost non-existent, and the audio loops become very annoying. The DS touch interface is not used to great advantage either.

It would be great to see someone eventually develop a flight simulator for the DS, in the spirit of the old "Red Baron" or "Aces over the Pacific", both of whose graphics the DS should be able to handle. Unfortunately, B-17 is not such a game.

Kids love this game but it is so easy for it to get lost/misplaced because of its small size.