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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Xbox Flight Sim To Date, 4 Jun 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
I bought this game hoping it would be an improvement on the few flight games on the Xbox market at the minute. Thankfully my wish was granted, as the game is a masterpiece.
The graphics are absolutely amazing, the planes are very detailed and so are the skies. The ground below you is the real clincher. The cities have buildings of different heights and SO MANY OF THEM! Each city has its own monuments e.g. London has St Pauls Cathedral, Big Ben, Tower Bridge (which you can fly under) and Paris Has The Eiffel Tower (which you can fly through both of the gaps between the levels). The environments are so large and detailed.
The Gameplay is excellent. The campaign mode is brilliant as you can fly a different plane every time. Overall there are over 40 planes you can fly at some point in the game. The mini campaigns are even better in my own opinion, choose the dogfight option to be thrown straight into the action over one of the cities in a random plane. You have to destroy 20 planes in 10 minutes. Or choose the Tactical Mission for bombing missions, where you have to bomb the points. An Ace Battle is something special. You choose a plane out of 32 and go head to head with another plane exactly the same as yours. If you shoot down that plane, then you will get an ace and another skin for your plane.
Overall the enemy AI is very good and sometimes very hard to beat, it can be annnoying when you constantly have one on your tail, which you cant shake, but that just adds to the immense realism. I would definitely advise anyone who likes flying games, or anyone else for that matter to go and buy this game, you will not be disappointed. The realism and cities are amazing and second to none in a flying game.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
What a step backwards!, 26 April 2006
Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
I bought this as I'd been having trouble getting other players on Crimson Skies, I assumed they had moved onto the new and better Blazing Angels.... Man was I wrong.
It's not terrible but the controls and response to the controls is so stupifyingly bad that it manages to suck most of the enjoyment out of the game.
It looks pretty, but there is no sense of speed at any point, I leveled up the planes (a nice touch, and there are plenty of planes to choose from too) but still no speed. I think maybe they couldn't decide if it was going to be a simulation or an arcade action kind of flight game so they went somewhere in the middle and it's not going to please anyone.
As for multiplayer, you are pretty much limited to coop play because playing against others humans is just too dull, the controls and speed issue, plus some stupid spawn point issues leave no room for any competition, basically you fly straight at each other and one of you survives, the other respawns and it starts again, at no point is there any value in doing anything else.
The coop play is good, and getting a small group of 4 people together to fight off waves of seemingly endless foolish enemy pilots is kind of fun, but you don't get a feeling of any real skill being involved. So the novelty wore of pretty quickly for me.
Overall I was dissapointed, not least because it had some really nice touches to it that could have given it a real life span, but the controls and speed issues mixed with the bad PvP play just made it to painful to be bothered with.
I have since gone back to Crimson Skies, I don't know if other people have done what I have done and bought then sold Blazing Angels, but there seems to be more people playing Crimson Skies now... and exactly why did microsoft say there was no sequal to this game in the near future?
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great game, 10 Aug 2009
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
If you love combat flight sims but find them too hard then this is perfect.
I bought it because i once borrowed it from a friend and adored it, the graphics, the great playability and the fact that you don't have to be a brilliant pilot to play!! very good story too!
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