LucasArts' Secret Weapons

By Tom Bramwell Published 22 April, 2003

George's boys get in on the act

Almost exactly a year ago to the day that Totally Games and LucasArts announced they were to work together on a new World War II flight game, details of the game have finally been divulged.

Having apparently spotted the boon in producing World War II-themed titles recently, LucasArts has revealed Secret Weapons Over Normandy, a WWII flight game with a distinctly action-oriented slant. Developed by Totally Games, the same team responsible for LucasArts' X-Wing and TIE Fighter games, the new title is a follow-up to the classic Secrets of the Luftwaffe series.

The game is set to feature over 30 air-to-air and ground attack missions, spread across 15 campaigns spanning Europe, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific (so, er... not just Normandy then?), and will contain more than 20 aircraft, including the P-38 Lightning and the P-51 Mustang as well as more experimental craft such as the Me 163 Komet rocket plane and the Me 262 turbo jet fighter.

LucasArts plans to release Secret Weapons Over Normandy for PS2, Xbox and PC simultaneously before the end of the year. Platform-specific features include co-operative multiplayer on the PS2 and Xbox versions (why not the PC?), and the PC version will contain a scenario editor.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 9 years ago

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  • Khab #1 9 years ago

    w00t! Totally have usually done decent stuff in the past - let's hope they don't mess it up.

  • pjmaybe #2 9 years ago

    Hasn't this been done before? I'm sure it has - something called X-Planes or something like that.

    Ye gruds, aren't there ANY original ideas any more?

    Peej

  • Tyronne #3 9 years ago

    Thing is about this is that judging by the screenshots for this (which i know are only ps2 ones) is that other games have already come out that look and possibley play better than than this...take BF1942...or il-2 sturmovik 2....and I cannot really see what new things they can add....

  • sickpuppysoftware #4 9 years ago

    Didn't Lucas-arts release Secret Weapons of the Luftwafe donkeys years ago? Is this the latest sequel ever?

  • Tyronne #5 9 years ago

    with duke nukem never coming a close 2nd.....

  • Fizzy #6 9 years ago

    But this game is about story and atmosphere, like the old space sims of yester year. This game can't be bad, no way.

  • lee3p0 #7 9 years ago

    I really can not see this game matching il-2 sturmovik, especially Forgotten Battles, which is just superb!

  • Whizzo #8 9 years ago

    I used to love buggering about with the Komet in SWOTL, zipping through a formation of B17s, cannon blazing all the while knowing the fuel in your rocket motor was heading towards zero very, very quickly. Suddenly all would be quiet as your motor conked out and you turned towards base and tried to land it... :-)

  • Fizzy #9 9 years ago

    It isnt supposed to be like IL-2. Its not a hardcore sim, none of LEC games have ever been hardcore sims, even the X-Wing games werent that hard to get into, this is more about action while still retaining a certain level of depth in the controls.