Wings of Prey: WWII Air Combat

Product Details

Wings of Prey: WWII Air Combat From 777 Studios Price: $29.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by Amazon.com 6 new or used available from $26.99 Average customer review:

Product Description

Wings of Prey is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II. Players can participate in some of the war's most famous battles piloting fighters, attack planes and bombers across a wide range of thrilling missions. There are six theatres of war to engage in The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Ardennes, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe. Wings of Prey also boasts an all new damage effects engine as well as advanced environmental visuals enriching the game play. Wings of Prey features hundreds of airplanes taking part in large-scale air battles. The unique environmental engine also produces highly detailed, realistic landscapes and cityscapes that allow players to see breathtaking ground support actions.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1273 in Video Games
• Brand: 777 Studios
• Model: 777003
• Released on: 2010-03-15
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
• Format: DVD-ROM

Features

• Authentic World War atmosphere: Cutting edge technologies with highly detailed visuals bring the epic battles to life. Engage in more than 50 missions from famous historical battles over Eastern and Western Europe.
• Historically accurate aircraft: Experience over 40 planes including fighters, attack planes and heavy bombers. Learn to master the Spitfire, Mustang, Messerschmitt and many more. Flexible difficulty level system: from arcade to realistic simulation.
• Downloadable content support: more planes and missions are released periodically. Supports 6-DOF TrackIR, TripleHead2Go, Saitek, Logitech and Thrustmaster joysticks, mouse, keyboard and voice headsets.
• Thrilling multiplayer: 4 game modes to choose from; VoIP, game lobby chat system, leaderboards, friends lists, join-in-progress and host migration features provide easy match making.
• Realistic sound effects and original music from Jeremy Soule.

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Customer Reviews

A bird's eye view on a 5 star product Here are some things that I would've liked to know about this product before buying: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimum System Requirements For Wings of Prey Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3200MHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Hard Drive: 10 GB of free space Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256 Mb or ATI Radeon X1650 256 Mb DirectX: DirectX 9.0c Sound card: DirectX compatible Internet connection: 56 kb/s (for online play and to register your copy of wings of prey) Keyboard, mouse The Recommended Requirements For Wings of Prey Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 / Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 / Microsoft Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2400 MHz Memory: 2 GB RAM or more Hard Drive: 10 GB of free space Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 512 Mb or ATI Radeon 4850 512 Mb DirectX: DirectX 9.0c Sound card: DirectX compatible with support 5.1 Internet connection: 512 Kb/s (for online play and to register your copy of wings of prey) Keyboard, mouse, joystick (a version of Thrustmaster joysticks, as the game can be configured by one of the thrustmaster joystick layouts, although everything can be customized) Wings of Prey: WWII Air Combat is a combat flight simulator. With the right amount of focus placed on the actual flying of the craft to the extremely well done aerial combat. The game comes with several difficulty levels that increase the actual realism of the flying itself and the enemy's skill. There are a variety of missions, including dog fights, and bombing with a large selection of planes to keep any aviation man happy. The game can be played with keyboard and mouse, but a version of the Thrustmaster joysticks such as Thrustmaster T Flight Hotas X is much better suited to play the game with. Overall it's an excellent game that any combat flight sim junky will love. Some off hand thoughts: No actual taking off/ landing at base On the harder difficulties there is limited fuel/ ammo (no way to restock) but makes it more challenging Really good graphics & music (would recommend having above the minimum requirements to enjoy the game even more) Multiple missions for plenty of fun offline (with good replay value) Online capable for multiplayer missions/ combat Roughly 45 different planes to fly Single Missions and Campaign Mode Look before you leap Before you buy this game, maybe it would be a good idea to visit the game forum at yuplay.com and see what the actual game players are saying about this game's performance issues. The game is fun. Skill levels range from a pretty hard Arcade level to a really hard Sim or Realistic level. The forum for the game is full of helpful, knowledgeable people. There are many good flyers playing the game. The graphics are really pretty good. There are some problems with joy stick setup and some other small stuff, but they are not insurmountable if you stick to it. The difficulty I have experienced seems to stem from the fact that the game developers keep "improving" the game and then mess it up so it is full of glitches. Which may or may not be taken care of in the next "improvement". So beware, buy the game, it's cheaper here than on the game site, but watch out for the developers " improvements". They may really test your patience. Something between a flight sim and arcade I'm a big fan of simulators since 90s and I played lots of them. Recently I enjoyed playing IL2 and less frequently - LockOn. When I purchased this game I probably expected something closer to IL2 with better graphics and other improvements, mostly related to greater capabilities of modern computers. But this game stands much closer to arcade games than to realistic sims like IL2/LockOn. If you find these games way too complex - you might like Wings of Prey. Otherwise you might not really enjoy it. Also the game is full of small glitches and problems, which makes playing annoying. So what's good: - graphics is great. Better than in any flight sim I've seen before; What's bad (note:I'm always flying on a "simulator" difficulty level): - There's no time compression! I have to fly for 20 minutes just to reach the target. Damn! - There's something strange with simulation of your plane's fuel system. When you are flying Hurricane over Britain, you are running out of fuel in about 15 minutes. I have never been a Hurricane pilot, but this seem to be too short. But when you are flying IL2, your fuel gauge always shows a full tank. - Engine control is ugly. Sometimes you can't adjust the mixture. This leads to an excessive fuel consumption in certain cases. - Again, controlling prop pitch and mixture with throttle axis is so ugly that I had to remove it completely and use the keyboard instead. - Damage simulation is lousy. If your engine is damaged and smoking, you might still flying for a long time without any troubles. - AI is... strange. It's behavior is inconsistent. Sometimes your opponents virtually don't even notice you are here, shooting at them. Other time you will be shot down immediately. - If you want to play on your own custom difficulty level, you have to readjust it every time you are starting mission. Very time consuming. - You can't enter your name as a pilot. Not a big deal, but still feels bad.