Customer Reviews

Wings of War

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3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
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This is a very good game. The graphics are great, the simulation is great, the action is great, and it's fun to play. Since I'm only 11, this game gets frustrating, and there's cusswords in it. Other than that, this is a great game for people who like the historic airplanes.

For the most part, the World War I scenario is well put together and is a fairly challenging game. One moves their way up the ranks as skill and daringness prevail. The graphics do not do Xbox justice, but are okay. My only real gripe is that there is only one view as you fly the airplane (as if you are just behind the plane, or as the game says, "flying machine"). I would rather have a cockpit view while flying... Incidentally, a realistic perspective is offered while manning various machine-guns - go figure. Overall the game deserves a chance to match skill and wits with the enemy!

Developed and published in 2004 by Silver Wish Games and Gathering of Developers respectively, "Wings of War" is the story of a Royal Air Force- though it was not called that initially- fighter pilot on the Western Front of World War I. Bejamin is not singled out as special, not initially anyway, nor does he fly with a special operations unit as James Chase does in "Secret Weapons Over Normandy". He's just a common flier, trying to carry out his orders and survive in the process from one lengthy mission to the next. Promotions can be earned over time, going from a lowly Private to a high-ranking commander, and more than ten British medals can be earned over the course of the game, going all the way up to the Victoria Cross. How rank and medals are earned is rather obscure- the game just hands them to you when you do certain things. Trying to figure out how and why a game awards medals and rank is always interesting in a video game, because no game has yet to do it the same way as another.

The arsenal of aircraft and vehicles that appear in the game is quite vast, from tanks and trucks on the ground to triplanes, biplanes and massive zeppelins in the air. Though the game fudges on realism in some places- rockets are frequently available and you can drop far more and far larger bombs than a plane of that time could have carried- and you can decide whether or not for it to be possible for your machine guns to jam. When they do if the setting is on is also very predictable, but it does add to the realism some so I recommend doing that.
Benjamin struck me as a very humble character- he's far more concerned with survival than glory, and even when he's got a George Cross and Victoria Cross- you can earn both, I believe- he doesn't carry on about it. The aircraft of the WWI period were slow, poorly armored and armed by today's standards, and flying them was quite a feat. They were also rather fragile, and since the landing gear was never retractible on any of those planes it is very easy to lose it when flying low. You'll know when you lose the gear, because Benjamin will exclaim, "I've lost my landing gear! A crash landing is my only hope!" or a similar line. And all is not lost if that should occur. You just have to, ha ha, wing it. Either you'll make it down safe or you'll die a terrible death, but either way a landing without landing gear is a very final thing for the aircraft itself.

It's not but so realistic, and the missions are very long, but I enjoyed "Wings of War" quite a bit. Not many know about it, and I remember ignoring the game when it first came out. But I must say I can give it a solid recommendation now. There's no other game like it, not on the Xbox at least. And in "Wings of War"'s case, that is rather a good thing.

I was hunting for a game featuring WWI aerial combat, and I'm happy I came across this one. I was really impressed with how fun and how much replay value this game had. While the menu screens are bland and stark, the missions themselves are white-knuckle exciting. While not a hard-core simulation, this game still transports you to a vanished era where dogfights were fierce, machine-gun blasting battles, and bombing runs and recon duty always held the promise of danger. One minute you might be providing fighter defense against German attackers, the next minute you might be manning a rear gun turret, trying to keep fighters off you while simultaneously conducting bombing runs and doing scout photography. The graphics are quite good, offering you several different ways to view the action, and the music is well-done and fits the tone of the game perfectly. The difficulty level seems a little all-over-the-place at times, but luckily the game is well-balanced overall. If you played Snoopy's Flying Ace on XBox Live, but want something a little more authentic, this game should satisfy the more sophisticated flying ace in you.

I have played the pal european version of this game which was released earlier.There are 2 modes this game has-the campaign mode and instant action.The campaign mode is the main mode here.It starts off with a tutorial explaining you the basic flight controls after which you are thrown into the missions.Your objectives include not only taking down enemy planes but shooting balloons,taking photographs of targets etc.The binoculars come in handy in spotting ground targets.The game boasts some nice effects like solid explosions ,leaving a trail of smoke behind.The voice overs during the missions are actually good .As for the graphics,i didn't like them that much.Yes,the backgrounds have detail,but the textures lack polish.They don't look xbox quality.For a 'next generation' xbox game,i expected the graphics to be better.The missions got boring aftr a certain point of time.The game failed to 'draw' me in and give me the impetus to continue it further.
Wings of war is basically your average air combat game with a World War 1 kind of atmosphere thrown in.Die hard fans of air combat games may want to have a look in here.Other gamers will be better off staying away from this...

Theres not a large group of flying games that get a good rating, and this game is one. Back in its day, it might have been all the rave, but now its just cheesey. Graphics are outdated. The overall gameplay aint bad, theres lots to do. Theres many more games out there with much better graphics and are much more fun. But, if you've tried all the others and want more, get it, [...]