Customer Reviews

WarBirds Dogfights

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3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(6)

 

 

This is a game in the flight-sim genre. There is a lot of gameplay here, but you need to work at it! If you are new to this flight sim series, definitely do the training offered in the beginning, and pay particular attention to how the views work. After completing the training, fly the campaign missions which lead you through 1-v-1,2-v-2,3-v-3 scenarios, on up to massive aerial battles with hundreds of aircraft in the air! On the higher levels, the AI is particularly deadly. There are also "bonus" instant-action missions which become available after you reach a certain level in the campaign, as well as lots of additional training missions, and "free flight" modes. In general, the offline portion of the game can be a lot of fun!

While the offline campaign play is great for honing your fighter-pilot skills, you must try out the online game to really get the "Warbirds Experience". The game offers a free 30-day online account (click go online, and then account setup). Online, you will find lots of players from around the world who, besides shooting you down, will also offer help and assistance.

The graphics, while not jaw-dropping, are decent and well designed for the flight-sim genre. The interface isn't as smooth as it could be, but functions well enough.

For those who don't know how competitive the players who play other flight sims are, just read some of the reviews of this product but those people. They knock Dogfights as they are not very good at it!

WarBirds Dogfights is a fun, challenging, and accurate combat flight sim.

One guy claimed to have flown real airplanes. I would bet not much. He does not know what an accelerated stall is? Some combat pilot!

I have 4500 hours a military flying, taught flying for five years, and recognize the different flight models in different types of aircraft.

WarBirds Dogfights takes a good pilot, a good eye, and a willing to learn how to really fly combat.

WarBirds Dogfights is not about ground visuals but about great ballistics, great flight models, and great challenge against great AI.

And then where you are ready, go fly online (For Free) using the link inside the game to get a [...] online account.

See how really good you are at flying against real online pilots.

If anyone wants to show how good they really are, the CEO of the Interactive Magic offered a FREE Gaming Laptop to anyone who can beat him air to air in Mustangs!

I thought the game was an excellent flight sim, an excellent training software, and great fun!

Check Six and Good Luck.

JW
Lt. Colonel, USAF Retired

As others have said, game is unplayable do to the controls. I have a Logitech Extreme 3D joystick and it works well with the original Warbirds and have set the controls for Warbirds Dogfights the same. ANY attempt to climb or turn results in a flat spin. Try to dogfight flying in a straight line only !!! WORTHLESS !!!!

I've flown in Warbirds for nearly five years now and I've tried most of the other online sims. For me, Warbirds is the best combat sim out there.

The offline game is adequate, with lots of challenging missions and good diversity of missions and aircraft.

The flight model is realistic and challenging. If you try to just turn and burn you will be shot down.

The stand out characteristics of Warbirds is the online experience. Multiple arenas with various styles of settings are available and the online community of pilots are always competitive and always helpful. In addition, there is regular free training offered on various nights. If you are new to flight sims, you will need it.

Warbirds dogfights...both the ww11 and red baron simulators are excellent combat flight simulators...but you have to fly them,if you expect that its going to be a just jump in there and shoot them down sort of game you are in for dissapointment. It takes commitment and hours of combat practice to stand your ground in a fight and you have to use your head! Tactics,tactics,is what its all about...that and knowing what your aircraft is capable of and what your opponents is not able to do...otherwise you are going to be shot down pronto!
Each aircraft has its own airframe limitations,its own strengths and weakness's and it takes time to learn to fly them. Also You need a fast computor and as updated flight controls as absolutely possible. It takes a little effort to get everything meshing right...but once you do its an incredible experience!
The most forgiving aircraft in the ww11 simulator are the British huurricanes,the U.S. p 40's and the Japanese zeros,all of the other models have their advantages and quirks but it seems that these three are easier on the pilot initially.
The red baron series is a whole other ball of wax...its all about manueverabilty over airspeed and fire power,so in a way its best to learn the basics of dogfighting there and then go to the ww11 series,but either way once you master them I don't see how anybody could be as dissapointed as some of these other reviews suggest. These people just aren't good combat pilot material or have underated eguipment running the game.

I'm not sure if the game is just that bad or if I can't get the controls to configure properly. As another reviewer states "It's like trying to balance a BB on a marble in a moving car." I've played around with numerous other sims and will be going back to them.

It's kind of hard, but once you learn it it's cool.Needs a little more info in the hand book and the website. But i dig it. I have a mac it crashs some, but o'well. I think the company needs to give and up to date list of joysticks, that works with the game on the mac. I got it cheap on amazon, but some of there sellers have it over 25, so i think I got a good deal. So is it worth 25 plus? Well if you have other fighter games and want something new go for it. I think this is one of the few games made for the mac, which is sad. So I say jump into your P 51 and shoot some bad guys down.Later Dogfighter

The training missions are fun but as I learned during my first takeoff, the aircraft pulls sharply to the left on the ground and holding down right rudder (D key) only takes you off the runway and inevitably make you crash. Configuring your joystick doesn't help nor does calibrating it over and over. The problem is in the program. Then when you take off and manage to get within range of your aerial target, if he gets behind you, you never find him. There is no radar on your instrument panel so your enemy is always invisible to you. Looking around with the number keys doesn't always work either. He always manages to stay in your blind spot. Barrel-rolls, loops, wingovers, and any of the other aerobatics required to get a target in your sights just causes a loud annoying hum and your aircraft just ends up in a spin from which you can't recover and breaks apart in the air or crashes and burns. I brought down my first and only kill out of sheer luck! The aircraft are supposed to be fighter aircraft and they handle like 747's. Don't waste your time on this mistake of a game. If you want a WWII dogfight sim with action and fun, go get SECRET WEAPONS OVER NORMANDY.

As some one mentioned before the grafics look like some thing from the 90s. Flight model is entirly screwed. I've flown real planes and have spent 100s of hours with better flight sims and I can't think of any reason why a plane traveling at 2 or 300 MPH in a descent would stall. The other planes dance around the skies while I'm just trying to keep my plane in the air. It's like trying to balance a BB on a marble in a moving car. Those of us who have foolishly spent our money on this piece of crap have taken a bullet so the rest of you don't have too. Truth be told the only reason I bought this thing is because I couldn't get IL2 to work on Vista, XP machine died. Atari should have quit after Pong.

This game is a waste of money. As a flight sim, it is a joke. It is not worth the time and the money.