Aside from being one of the most forgettable characters in recent memory (who is apparently beset with laryngitis, but then again, so is everybody in this game), the mission structure is straightforward and boring. ![]() After some more fighting, you head back to your base, only to be ambushed again.Īnd thus is the majority of the game. It doesn’t take long to knock the bogey out of the sky, and just as you do, you’re set upon by a group of enemies. This is where all your (not) hard-lived training comes into play. For example, we’re told: “Notice the speed is going up as we accelerate.” Clearly our speed will increase with acceleration I’m surprised I wasn’t told that braking slowed the plane down.Īfter finishing the tutorial missions, I embarked on campaign mode and was thrust right into action, attempting to save a fellow pilot with a smoking engine and an enemy on his tail. My biggest gripe, and this is probably just me, is that the tutorial treats you like you’re incapable of understanding basic things. I did as such, yet the game didn’t recognize this, and I had to restart twice to actually complete that tutorial. Sometimes the game didn’t always recognize what it told me to do for example, while learning to take off, I was instructed to “accelerate and pitch up” to lift off the ground. Everything is text based, there is no voice guiding you through the tutorials, and I found that the speed of the text was too slow often times, I was left waiting until the next instruction decided to pop up. While informative, I found the tutorials to proceed by very slowly. You’re guided on how the HUD works, how to control your plane, weapon basics, giving commands, and performing special maneuvers. Upon first starting the single player campaign mode, you’re told to complete the tutorial missions, to get a feel for how the game plays. This game is my first foray into iOS flight sims. I’m no stranger to flight sims, having played many of these games, from the venerable Flight Simulator series, and got my start with the – still classic – Chuck Yeagar Air Combat that came out over twenty years ago for DOS. Having never played any of the previous games in the series, Sky Gamblers: Cold War ($4.99) was an entirely new experience for me.
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