There are a few exceptions to this rule, and I really enjoyed a mission where I needed to break up a Japanese bombing run by damaging each plane a specific amount, forcing them out of formation.Īfter a handful of missions you’ll realize that nearly every campaign stage has you shooting and destroying your targets before being able to progress. Missions are simply given to you without much context, so nearly each one simply devolves into destroying all enemies, sometimes before they reach their intended target. It comes across as very dry, and more than once I forgot what the point of my mission was, only to be reminded with the objective listed in the top left of my screen. You’ve given a dossier to read before and after the missions, and there’s some brief cutscenes sprinkled in with some voiceover work, but nothing exciting or that will wow you. While there’s a little variety in the campaign, I do wish it told the stories better. The campaign starts off simple with basic dogfights, but eventually you’ll need to fly close to the water to launch torpedoes, strafe ground targets with your guns and bombs, destroy search lights and Anti-Air turrets, and a whole lot more among the other missions.
I actually never knew there was an American Volunteer Group of pilots that helped within World War II, so it was fascinating to see this during the game and in a different context other than simply being a Air Force, Navy or Marine pilot.
These missions are based on actual historic battles, so it’s quite interesting to see some of the missions that took place, and how chaotic and dangerous it really was. While I wasn’t aware of the specific battles included in the campaign beforehand, history buffs should be excited to experience specific missions like the Battle of the Salween Gorge, Invasion of Malaya, and raids on Rangoon, just to list a few. You are a part of the American Volunteer Group, a little known squadron that fought alongside the Chinese troops in the war, helping with torpedo drops, night runs, bombing, dog-fighting and more. Prepare to dogfight, man turrets, perfect bombing runs, land air strikes and more as you help defend China against Japan in these rarely seen battles. I’m not a war buff by any means, but I know the talking points and battles, and everything included in FTSOC was completely new to me. There’s not many air combat game releases these days, so when one does come along, I get excited, as I want to experience air combat whenever possible.įlying Tigers does something a little different though, although the game is set during the World War 2 era, it places you into the roll of pilot in many lesser known encounters from the war, rarely depicted anywhere else, specifically, the China-Burma-India theatre. It seems that developer ACE MADDOX is now the newest dev-team to try and put a game in this genre out for fans as they recently released Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China (FTSOC). There have been numerous contenders over the years that have tried to do so, but none have even come close. Gutierrez said the P-40's engine, landing gear, some castings and most of the instruments are original, but most of the plane had to be built from scratch in a 72-week effort using copies of more than 3,000 original drawings provided by the Smithsonian Institution and 4,000 pages of ground-crew manuals.For a long time I’ve been looking for a game to replace Crimson Skies as my favorite arcade air combat title. The Warhawk will be the 10th aircraft installed in the museum, though only one can still fly, Czekanski said. As the supply goes down, people go to greater and greater lengths to get them." "Early on, people were collecting planes that were in service or parked and saved. "We came to this a little late in the collecting game," Czekanski said. In the 1980s, he said, someone looking for a P-38 found the P-40's remains in a ditch near the airfield.
Then it would flip end over end," Czekanski said. "The fields were very muddy, and often the plane would dig in. The museum's P-40 was shipped to Cold Bay in the Aleutian Islands, where it had fewer than 20 hours of flying time when it was scrapped after a taxiing accident in 1942. Gutierrez estimated about fewer than three dozen remain. Adding to the P-40's scarcity is that after the war, enthusiasts snapped up surplus high-performance aircraft for air racing and private piloting.
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