Apache: Air Assault reviews and impressions

[The_Goalie_94]

Maybe we can start a vote for DLC. I only played for half an hour and can't play for 2 days. I hope to play a few hours on the wweekend. It is very epic. THe damage is intense! Can't wait for the full game so i can customize my owm bird.

In case you didn't know, i prefer helicopters over planes. Sorry plane fans

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by The_Goalie_94

Maybe we can start a vote for DLC. I only played for half an hour and can't play for 2 days. I hope to play a few hours on the wweekend. It is very epic. THe damage is intense! Can't wait for the full game so i can customize my owm bird.

In case you didn't know, i prefer helicopters over planes. Sorry plane fans

After completing the 3 missions of the demo it unlocked a new apache and some skins. I thought maybe i could use these in the missions again but it turns out you cant. Its good how you can go to "extras" and put stickers etc onto your apache. I spent a while making my own haha, redy eyes at the front and a nice badge at the side. Nothing t ofancy, but looked good then when you exit the demo you lose it all.

Im hooked on this demo i must admit.

As for DLC, anton has already said its a posibility, but its not down to the devs, its down to the publishers and whether or not they want to publish it. Lets hope this game gets enough sales

Cant wait for some XBL co op missions!! Some epic games will be recorded and talked about in this forum no doubt.

[bobbysocks]

you all have me stoked! just got in and am going to DL it....we may have to split out time between BoP and AAA....we need a secretary...a sexy hot one !! i will do the the interviews.....

[Akula]

I just got done playing the demo, and it was pretty nice. Until my PS3 froze!

[tbtstt]

I had no idea this was coming out until I spotted the demo download in the PSN store last night. I've always wanted a decent helicopter game (I'm another who favours rotors over fixed wing ), so I did a bit of Google research whilst the demo was downloading and couldn't believe my luck when I saw it was developed by the same team behind IL-2!

I played it for about an hour last night and loved it. I thought there were one or two very minor flaws with the physics (I was playing on realistic) and a bit more of help with the controls would have been useful (e.g. using the satellite view) but otherwise its great and a definate purchase for me.

Highlight of the demo for me was realising that, not only could you switch to the gunners position on the fly, but the TADS includes a FLIR mode as well. Brilliant!

[vdomini]

Downloaded the demo last night and played for about 1 hour, unlocked the three mission and played in realistic.

It's hard flying an helicopter i prefer a plane lol

The game is very well balanced and designed, i'm pretty courious to try the simulator difficulty level but i am not very good flying helicopter.

I like the english acccent of the female gunner in the last mission

Only thing i expected more was more definition and details over the ground and building/enviroment destrucion animation, and more dust/particles effect when flying very low or behind enemy vehicles. I fear that atmospheric turbulence has not been taken in count as well. Physics does not look good when houses collapses, and some structure can't be destoyed. Grass/bush graphical rendering is quite poor. Enemy models/animations are not good as i expected to be. Feel like ps3 can handle much more higher graphical details ( have a look at the crytek engine on ps3, used in Crysis ) Overall, the graphic is average, but i was expecting more from a brand new game.

I will surely buy the full game and probably some kind of joystick, it's gonna be fun flying that heli drunk with friends, and playng that online, but i will wait to find it used, second hand or get in from ebay, not willing to pay full price for it. Bit disappointed about the graphics.

P.s.: where the HELL is my air speed? Also, how can i look around like in bop while in cockpit wiew using joypad!??

[tbtstt]

Originally Posted by vdomini

Only thing i expected more was more definition and details over the ground and building/enviroment destrucion animation, and more dust/particles effect when flying very low or behind enemy vehicles. I fear that atmospheric turbulence has not been taken in count as well. Physics does not look good when houses collapses, and some structure can't be destoyed. Grass/bush graphical rendering is quite poor. Enemy models/animations are not good as i expected to be. Feel like ps3 can handle much more higher graphical details ( have a look at the crytek engine on ps3, used in Crysis ) Overall, the graphic is average, but i was expecting more from a brand new game.

I think I'd put them a touch above average, but I agree that some of the ground detailing looks a bit rough up close. I daresay the graphics are the same quality as IL-2, but with A:AA you can come to halt and look at things in more detail, whereas you were always in motion in IL-2, so you wouldn't notice some of the rough edges on ground objects. Given that the flying in this game takes place lower and slower then IL-2, they perhaps could have polished the ground detailing a bit more.

I didn't really look at the particle effects too closely but, thinking back, I don't recall seeing any sort of dust cloud when flying at low level. I'll have to check that out when I get back to my PS3 this evening!

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by bobbysocks

you all have me stoked! just got in and am going to DL it....we may have to split out time between BoP and AAA....we need a secretary...a sexy hot one !! i will do the the interviews.....

Nah, we dont need a secretary!! We'll just the female pilot from one of the missions

What we need is some damn good groud crews, a bit of training, and a lot of luck!!

Was it just me that randomly listens to ride of the valkyries while playing this sometimes? haha


Have noticed that on realistic, your fuel doesnt seem to go down. Unless its just a very slow process. Ive not looked into this to much really so dont take my word as gospel.

What i do enjoy is when i have used up all my Hellfires, rather than wait 3 ins for them to re arm, i love flying to the nearest heli pad and rearming and repairing. Great feature.


Great game so far, just a few minor flaws but hopefully they are only on the demo (the sound issue has not been reported on the ps3)