Air Conflicts site live plus new trailer
 

Cover art looks familiar :(

http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/200596b.jpghttp://static.product-reviews.net/wp...PS3-in-May.jpg

Dunno what to make of this.. I like it up till the point you see the 109 cockpit.

At least it shows there's a market of some description.

Release Date: 27 May 2011


Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is an arcade flight simulation set in a world war I+II scenario.
During the 7 campaigns the player has to fly and fight through over 48 missions. Before taking off, the player can choose between different aircrafts, each with different strengths and weaknesses.
Within the missions the player gets different objectives like patrolling, sneaking, hit & run, bombing and escorting. Objectives are presented as dialogues between different characters. After some missions the player can upgrade one of his skills in order to maneuver the airplanes easier, have more endurance or have your wingman boosted. Further, the player can choose between two control schemes. Arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft.
Beside the campaign the game also features several multiplayer modes, local and via internet for up to four players.

Features:

Seven campaigns, each based upon a resistance movement of the second world war
Uniquely historical battles such as the siege of Tobruk, the battle of the Neretva Bridge, and Operation Belt in Poland
Fight for the causes of key resistance movements such as the People's Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, The Polish Armia Krajowa, and the French Maquis
Action-packed gameplay delivers the excitement of serial combat in a manner accessible to everyone
Over twenty different landscapes, each individually detailed with period precision
Pilot more than 16 individual aircraft, in both World War One and World War Two settings
Machine gun your enemies, dog fight, bomb ground targets and rocket ground troops and enemy vehicles
49 varied missions provide combat, stealth and exploratory gameplay
The player controls his aircraft with either mouse and keyboard or gamepad
The player can choose between two control schemes: Arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft
Several multiplayer modes, local and via internet for up to eight players

interesting choice of planes. especially the bisnovat as an american plane. i will probably end up getting it but i dont think it will replace BoP for very long.

Well, the ground units have a lot better detail than BOP, that's for sure. Everything else looks pretty cartoon-y. They also seem to feature bombers heavily. Which might be cool.

Three years old, it just goes to show how impressive BoP is.

No Hawker Hurricane!!!!

What an absolute disgrace. I shall not be buying this game, thats for sure.

:P

Ah but it does have the Meteor and MOSQUITO!
Its hust a shame they look pants compared to BoP's planes.

If it gets good reviews I might pick it up once it gets cheap, which I expect will be quickly.

This Dorothy Berbec sounds like an awesome character though. I want to meet her lol

i like the idea of a mossie and a b25 ( <<<thought BoP should have had that rather than the 20 OR a marauder would have been awesome). just wish they had put a prop driven us ac in the mix. the ww1 ac does intrigue me though. would be interesting to have a MP game set in all biplanes....but no se5A, spad, fokker tri,?? hope they decide on a dlc with more ac!

Hope they come out with a demo to check it out first. Sounds like it may be interesting...

Sorry to disagree with you. The way the soldiers blow up in pink pool of blood, made laugh out loud.
The year is 2011 and we are past the Wolfenstein bloodsplash of the 90´s.

lol ... i`watshed the trailer and it was like i said. good pictures but in movement you see that its an arcarde game like the heros over europe and so on... i hope something like a simulator is in there... otherwise it will not kick il2. lets wait for the demo...

AND BY THE WAY!!! THESE PROGRAMMERS OVERRATE EVERYTHING BUT NOT THE BF109. WHERE ARE BOMBS? WHAT IS WRONG WITH GERMAN AIRFRAMES???

Totally agree that it's no IL2 sadly. I would hope though that a little competition in the marketplace will mean that at least an IL2 sequel may be considered for consoles. And yes I know what Anton said in his interview but that was about as convincing as Gaddaffi is currently being.

Why? Because the sad fact is that history is always written by the victor. Harsh perhaps, but sadly that's the way it is! Anyone with half an ounce of intelligence knows that these things tend to be biased. IL2M/ IL10's for example!!!!

PS: SHOUTY CAPS not needed as these convey an aggressive attitude

jojojo bro but i suffer under the shitty overrating of allyplanes cause the german airframes like fw190 me262 bf109 where absolutly top on thier appearing times and nothing competetive could be put in the air by the allys.
its so sad the the constructors are hornored that way... they made the best airplanes during ww2

and by the way youre right with the il 10 and so on... i read the russians also did inflated the kills against germany by 500%!!!

so thats overrated ^^

*Sigh* The only Flight-Sim that I have found that portrayed Luftwaffe fighters pretty accurately is the original "WarBirds" on the Mac and PC.

Though, I have never played IL on the PC, so I don't really know how they portrayed the axis planes in that game.

If this game is good and thats a BIG if, I just hope they portray the planes fairly accurate.

Off Topic:

I really miss WarBirds, that was a great game, you could blow chunks off planes and still fly them...err...ride them to the ground. (Inside the Cockpit!!!)

just what allied planes are overrated? in this game the best all around crate is the 109 series with the G6 probably being the best. the earlier emils, friedrichs, and gustovs lacked the guns but there are few things that will out turn a F or a G2. the P 51 which could go toe to toe with them in real life flies like a brick, the 47 is a little better but lacks the speed and turning ability. the B17 is the best US aircraft in this game! for the uk ac...the hurri flies slightly faster than a cessna 150 but is a buzz saw with all its guns and the spit series perfrom great ( but not traumatically better than a 109 ) once you learn how not to spin out. the yaks fly well but lack the guns. the Il series are basically bullit proof....so that one i will hand you. but the 153 is slow and the I-16 is spin cycle with wings. for the LW ac, the 190/152 series handles absurdly but not any worse than the 51s. the 262 is fast, has guns, but the turn radius of the moon. the 163 is actually a good dogfighter where it wasnt in real life and the 162 isnt that bad either. both of those perfrom better than they did in real life. the 110 did well in the BoB but after that was pretty much eaten alive by the raf. if anything the LW planes here are top dogs and other ac are underrated. you are correct in saying the 109s and 190s in real life when they came out were superior to everything but within a few years ( by 1942 ) the LW had to play catch up modding them to compete with raf and us crates. so if you are having a hard time being competitive with a 109 in here its not the plane. the plane will out fly you and me...

he bobby, its right what u say.
i mean the LWplanes did not have the right original weaponarys to choose like bombs or rockets. first underrating

i was flying bf 109s everytime and in much fights. since a few days i juse spitfires and i see a pretty much difference. u need just a burst to destroy a target or demage it so much to easiely engage it. i read somewhere of laserbullets, thats an accurate discription. and the turns are... just so sharp!
since i can control spitfire with my expirience of 109 i have the feeling that the spits did have double as much performence skills...second underrating

the rocket and me 262 is ok but they shall not be compareable with realety

one example, too?
one la7 and il10 in team a did beat us 5 pilots in spits bf s etc. so easily, that was a joke. russian planes where dominateing even outnumbered and we had defenetly the better pilots. and another game was one il10 against seve 109 k4s and it was a desaster to the 109s.

ah forget it back to the topic... ^^

uh ih uh ah ah :-)

i agree with you there, D7! it would be nice to have the R4m rockets on the 262 and some other goodies as well... :grin:

Goodies...we like 'goodies'
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not these kind though (one for the 70's brits!!)
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...l/333f1ed9.jpg

^^^^^^^^^^^

YEAH BABY! now your talking GOODIES!!!

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars Coming to North America
Apr 25, 2011 at 10:08 AM - [PQ]Pappy-R - 4 Comments
There's good news in the air for those that like to fight during flight as Air Conflicts: Secret Wars will now be coming to North America for PC and next generation consoles. This is due to a new deal between Kalypso Media USA, Inc. and bitComposer Games and you can check out all the details in the still fresh Press Release right after you scope out the new screenshots below.

nope you have alread seen them.....but thre's the rest of the story.

Kalypso USA and bitComposer Games Sign Publishing Deal for "Air Conflicts: Secret Wars"
Publisher to bring fast-action aerial dogfighting title to Windows PC and next generation consoles in North America

Ridgewood, NJ, April 25, 2011 - Kalypso Media USA, Inc. and bitComposer Games are pleased to announce that they will be publishing Air Conflicts: Secret Wars for Windows PC and next generation consoles in August 2011. The game will engage players in furious air-to-air and air-to-ground combat as they pilot planes throughout missions based on events during World War I and WWII. Air Conflicts: Secret Wars will put players in the cockpits of a mix of remarkably detailed aircraft, including fighters, fighter-bombers and bombers. More details about the console releases of Air Conflicts: Secret Wars will be released in the coming weeks.

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is an arcade flight game with battles spanning both World Wars, featuring seven campaigns and forty-nine missions that engage players in a white knuckle air battles across Europe. The game features an exciting mix of mission types, including patrolling, stealth, hit and run, escort and bombing objectives. Air Conflicts extends its replay value with several multiplayer modes for up to eight players on all platforms.


Features of Air Conflicts: Secret Wars:


Jump into the Cockpit - Fly more than 16 aircraft from both World Wars, including classic planes like the Sopwith Camel, Messerschmitt BF109 and the Spitfire. Push the limits of secret prototypes such as the Bolchowitinow BI-3, Gloster Meteor fighter jet and the Horten HIX, a forerunner of modern stealth bombers.

Customize your Aircraft - Add speed or maneuverability as you shred your enemies in vicious aerial dogfights, leveraging airplane customizations that best match your playing style and mission requirements

Battle in the Real World - 24 real-world inspired maps including Berlin, Belgrade, Slovakia and Tobruk will challenge your battlefield piloting skills across 7 campaigns and 49 diverse missions

Aces and Rookies Welcome - Newcomers can jump in and play quickly thanks to the accessible arcade controls. Combat aces can switch to simulation-styled controls for more precision and realism.

Take to the Skies with Friends (or Enemies) - Show everyone you're an ace in eight player Dogfight, Team Dogfight, Capture the Flag and Destroy & Protect multiplayer online gameplay

hmmmm....sounding better. but will wait for more info and the demo.

Well there we go its a Blazing angels 2 copy.

for all of you who were interested.... the more i read, i dont know if its something i am going to get.

Eschborn/Hamburg, 17. Juni 2011:dtp entertainment and bitComposer Games are releasing Air Conflicts: Secret Wars for PC today. The aerial combat simulation combines action-packed gameplay with a thrilling background story about a young female pilot, DeeDee who, as World War Two progresses, changes from a smuggler into a war heroine.
The varied scenarios will lead the player from the desert wastes of North Africa to Berlin, where he will fly secret missions with the help of the allied forces to determine the outcome of the war.

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is now available in stores for Windows PC. The aerial combat action game will also appear on July 1, 2011 for Xbox 360® (39.99 €) and PlayStation®3 (39.99 €) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and is one of the first titles to exploit the full 3D support of the Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3. Owners of a PlayStation®Move motion controller can also count on the full support of the input device.

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is an arcade aerial combat simulation which is based on real scenarios in the First and Second World War. The player will fly and fight his way through a total of 49 exciting missions, and can choose from numerous aircraft types with different features for each mission. He will have to complete a range of tasks during the missions, including patrol flights, reconnaissance activities, lightning strikes, bomber and escort flights. Once he has completed the missions, the player can improve his skills to allow him to control his aircraft more expertly or select a better co-pilot for example. Two control modes are available: in Arcade mode the flight controls are simplified, whereas Simulation mode offers a realistic and breathtaking flying experience. Besides Campaign mode, there are several multiplayer modes for up to eight players that can be played locally and over the Internet.


here's a whole couple pages of screen shots...some look really nice.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/air-c...rs/images.html

BUT here's the review that made me leary...

We get a lesson in dogfighting while seeing Air Conflicts: Secret Wars at this year's E3.

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars may be set in the World War II era, but it's not your typical military flight game. While other games pride themselves on realism, Secret Wars takes a more relaxed approach. Its arcade-style gameplay harks back to Crimson Skies rather than any version of Flight Simulator. While touring the show floor at this year's E3, we stopped by publisher Kalypso's booth to see how this light-heated flight game is coming along.

While Secret Wars is an arcade flight game, players more adapt at simulated flight controls will also find the option available to them. Whichever method your choose, you'll be playing as Dee Dee--the descendant of a World War I flying ace with her own role to play in the Second World War. Your struggle will take you through 49 missions from Europe to North Africa as you participate in dogfights, escort missions, stealth operations, and more. Some missions will even transport you back in time to World War I, complete with all the cumbersome, era-appropriate aircraft.

In between missions, there are a few ways to tweak your combat performance. Your plane's speed or maneuverability can be adjusted to suit the type of mission you'll be tackling next. Dee Dee will also unlock new abilities at set points during the campaign. One of these abilities is adrenaline, which is the game's equivalent of bullet time. Using adrenaline, you can line up that perfect shot against the enemy and score a critical hit on your opponent (which indicates you killed the pilot). Afterward, your opponent's plane will drop out of the air like a stone.

In the mission we saw, Dee Dee was tasked with sneaking past a German aerial patrol and eliminating some of the enemy's spies. It was explained that the key to doing this was to fly low and slow to avoid detection. However, the person piloting this demo decided to fly fast and kick butt for some added excitement. He also showed us how to pull a quick and dirty 180-degree turn by cutting the engines and opening the plane's flaps to full. While this may not be the safest tactic to use in an actual dogfight, it did help our pilot make quick work of the enemy troops.

If bombing the AI just isn't satisfying enough for you, Secret Wars will support up to eight-versus-eight multiplayer battles. You and your buddies can shoot each other out of the sky across several different modes, including Dogfight, Team Dogfight, and King of the Hill. With simple controls and cartoonish style, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars seems like an easygoing way to blow up some Nazis. The game will be released this August for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

I actually like Crimson Skies. I like it's overall silliness and the unpretentious nature of the game and would love to see a Crimson Skies 2. Still, I dont have very high hopes for this one and will certainly rent it before I buy it.

This is out on Friday. For anyone interested you can get it from Bee.com for £20 with this promotion:
http://www.bee.com/e3-games-2011/

The trailer showing the infantry and tanks looks interesting. Never seen that level of detail before. The spray of blood on strafed infantry looks amusing

I'm willing to bet it will be under £20 everywhere a couple of weeks after release anyway.

I'll wait for a few reviews.... not entirely sold on the game

Pretty positive preview here. There are some gameplay vids on YouTube of the PC version and it looks pretty fun to me

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/04/...s-secret-wars/

Auto Lock on!!!
 

:| Just watch a utube vid of this game, graphics are ok, but the physics stink and they have auto lock on, where all you have to do is fire. :-x

The preview says there are different flight models. Pretty sure the videos on YouTube must be easy mode. I watched one where the guy is in a sopwith camel and lands on the battlefield and then drives around running over infantrymen!
Graphics look really nice though. It's like next gen Blazing Angels, which to me is no bad thing..sometimes all you need are simple things to amuse

I ordered it anyway. No idea when I will get around to playing it but I will give my honest opinion when I do

Reviews are starting to appear now this game is out, and they arn't good. This one is especialy low scoring http://www.nowgamer.com/reviews/xbox...rs?o=0#listing although the reviewer is a idiot.
Urmmm hello? Birds of Prey? Battlestations Pacific?

what a shame..... was hoping it was somewhat worth experiencing until BSoS came out.

hello guys!

after buy air conflict,i permit me to share with u my own opinion about this game.for the guys who don't know,buy or not buy ,here is my opinion after 5 or 6 hours in this game.

my opinion about air conflict:

1-the story:
the hero is a girl!!yes not a joke,i find it nice ,in fact the daughter of a ww1 pilot killed in 1916.the bad thing is that the nice starting of this story stop here!we find again this female hero in 1941 in tobrouk and it become crazy and unrealistic: u fly in a sopwith camel and u fight again the me109!!a story of contraband in a middle of ww2!!not really realistic!i m disappointed!

2-the game :
the planes moves are totally unrealistic!!jerky,u can't stall:u can stop the engine and immediatly up the throttle and it is ok ,very hard to crash (in the highest difficulty : ace)in rookie mode it is impossible to crash!!lol!!in fact the moves of the planes are the moves of an alien ufo ,not the moves of a ww2 plane!!!

3-graphs :
maybe the best of the game but u find quickly his limits,the sky is very nice and the sun light effect are very good,better than il2 i think,planes are just nice,the sun down effects are very nice too ,the explosions of the ennemy planes are good too, u can shoot the infantry,the ground vehicles and tanks are nice but that is all ,the trees are the same in all the maps,their moves are unrealistic,the ennemy intelligence,in the solo campain is like a bird brain ,totally stupid even if the rear gunner of the bombers are very dangerous.

4-the mode simulator
lol,it call simulator mode but it is not one,in fact u can just up or down the landing gears!!the cockpit view is not too bad ,it give a touch of realist to the game but not as good as il2!

5- the fun
this game can be fun,if u just start to play your first plane game or if u like arcade,and u can fly in ww1 planes in cockpit view too,it change and it is fun,but that is all.
for a simulator lover ,my advice is : don't buy!!

6-16 planes to unlock ,49 missions.(49 missions,one good point for the game,very long to finish all,but too easy,even if in max difficulty,some missions can be hard but not really very very hot,the best is to start the game in highest difficulty : ace)


7- multiplayers : in fact i just did a few games and ...a nightmare so bad,so not nice ,so unrealistic...that i stop to played it quickly!!impossible to shoot a plane with the machine guns!!!a little damages,that's all!!it is easier to shoot a plane in bop!!!even in bop arcade where u need a lot of bullets to shoot one!!the few kills i did in air conf and the only kills i saw from the others players(i met i think 12 or 13 others players)were made by ... the rockets!!!!crazy!!

8- my personnal general opinion : 9/20 (and i'm very kind!)

if u don't know ,buy or not buy ,it can help u,even if it is just my opinion but the official critics seems just a little better but not a lot.

sincerely
olife

Agree with your comments on this Oli. My copy was delayed when they delivered the PC version by mistake and I had to wait while I posted it back and they sent PS3 replacent. During that delay the price of the game dropped by half and if I had waited I could have got it for £14.99

Its very poor. The only redeeming features are the fact it supports 3D TVs and Playstation Move. Graphics are quite nice but the controls are really bad. Full speed climb in any aircraft results in an instant stall warning. Dogfights are basically a case of spinning round with one eye on the radar looking for red dots.

All in all if BoP is a ferrari and Heroes Over Europe is a Lada then this game is a Micra. Looks ok but you wouldn't pick it unless nothing else was available

yes my friend dk!!
agree with u i forgot the fact that the only moment u can stall is when u try to climb ,to do a loop...impossible!!!!U STALL!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry my friend ,i forgot it ,thanks to add.
ps: lol!!!your story of ferrari ,lada and micra is funny and i'm totaly agree with u!!!!

thanks guys, i read a pretty bad review of it but was holding off until someone from here actually gave a level headed accessment. scratched off my buy list....

Yeah I was going to wait until it got cheap, but ive decided to buy Blazing angels 2 used for £5 instead. At least in that you get to fly some unusual planes. That should give me some cheap arcade action while we wait for Birds of Steel.

Just by watching the short clip...I was convinced that I wasn't going to even consider buying...If I was 10 years old and if they had video games back then...maybe I would have considered it...even then, I might have to think hard about it:rolleyes:

my personnal leaderboard of planes game for ps3.(it is only the planes games i know ,don't know if there are others)
i have all of them and do this leaderboard after play all those game ,many hours.of course it is just my personnal opinion and i don't want to do an "expert " of video game(cause i'm not one) ,just maybe help the guys who don't know ,buy or not buy.

1-il2 sturmovik birds of prey 18/20
2-blazing angels squadron of ww2 14,5/20
3-blazing angels secret missions of ww2 14/20
4-heroes over europe 12,5/20
5-tom clancy hawx 11/20
6-tom clancy hawx 2 10/20
7-air conflict secret war 8,5/20

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1-red baron arcade 9/20
2-top gun 9/20
3-after burner climax 9/20

i have no opinion about apache air assault because never play this game,but looks good according some opinions i hear.

Well my blazing angels 2 came in the post yesterday and the bloody disk isn't recognised in my xbox. Disk has a couple of small scuff marks so I guess I will have to spend some time with a cloth and brasso polish :mad:

lol maybe I should have chosen Air conflicts instead.