And when we say flight sim, we mean proper flight sim - not like the boring, "The flight to Barbados is currently departing from gate 44 in Terminal 3" types, where you ferry sunburnt holidaymakers to and from their destinations. For those not trained in military terminology, the Pacific Theatre isn't where the Prisoners of War put on their annual variety revue - instead, it's referring to the part of the war that took place on that big blue wet thing in between Western America, and Japan. And then it did.īirds of Steel is a flight sim set in the Pacific Theatre of World War 2. Promising to hark back to the days of old, with its dulcet tones assuring us of a game offering historical accuracy, dozens of accurately modelled planes for us to jump into the cockpit of, and an experience that's about as real as flying itself (but yet is scalable enough to cater to flying novices), as well as coming hot off the heels of their last (stunning) flight sim, IL-2 Sturmovik, we were practically exploding with anticipation as we were waiting for Birds of Steel to drop through our letterbox. Where once you couldn't move for flight sims, many even based solely around an individual plane, suddenly, flying games were few and far between. At around the same time as the PC took over from the Amiga as the go-to machine for games, however, a funny thing happened - flight sims seemed to all but disappear. The Battle of Britain, Operation Overlord, F-15 Strike Eagle, Gunship, B-17 Flying Fortress - the list went on and on and on. When I was growing up, I practically lived and breathed a diet of flight sims on the old Amiga 500. There are unlockable extras such as historical paint jobs, roundels, nose art, and kill markers.It's been a while since a game's got me quite as excited as Birds of Steel. Players can compete in dogfights or capturing and holding vital air zones and airports. Multiplayer includes a 4-player co-operative or online war mode to rival against up to 16 aviators across world. Realistic on the other hands demands a lot of control from the player to keep the aircraft in the air. There are different difficulty settings with Arcade making planes very easy to control with the ability to enable unlimited ammo and fuel. It is also possible to change history by designing a custom military campaign with parameters such as the theater of war, the year, and the side of the conflict to play. These consist of patrols, dogfights, bombers escorts, or protecting ally carriers and airfields. Players can pilot both fighters and bombers depending on the objectives. There are also single missions in locations such as the Pacific, Germany, the Mediterranean and the Eastern Front where aircraft from Britain, Italy, Australia and Germany are controlled. Overall the different missions include Attack on Pearl Harbor, Battle of Wake Island, Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of Midway, Battle of the Coral Sea, Siege of Malta, Battle for the Kuban, Port Moresby, and Ruhr. In singleplayer there is a historical campaign for both the American and Japanese side. Next to well famous aircraft it also includes for instance the much lesser known Australian CAC Boomerang of which only 250 were made. It contains over 100 licensed airplanes from the different sides, including planes from Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, USA, and the USSR. Birds of Steel is a combat flight simulator set during World War II.
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