Secret Weapons Over Retail

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 November, 2003

Totally Games' arcade flight combat title goes gold.

LucasArts' Secret Weapons Over Normandy, developed by Larry Holland's Totally Games, has gone gold and should be swooping onto PS2, Xbox and PC shelves as of November 28th according to UK distributor Activision's latest release schedule.

Having welcomed and embraced online Xbox dogfight-'em-up Crimson Skies just the other week, we're looking forward to SWON, which, like FASA's title, aims to give us full run of the skies without a phonebook-sized manual. Obviously then flight sim fans probably need not apply, but anybody else who fancies mastering the skies of World War II (from Russia and the Pacific to D-Day), manning gun turrets and parachuting their way into enemy strongholds should break out their flying goggles and assemble on runway four.

We'll be taking a look at Secret Weapons Over Normandy sometime towards the end of the month.

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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 (12) Latest comment 8 years ago

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  • Tabasco #1 8 years ago

    I hope this is decent. I want to play something that's historically correct - Will also pick up Crimson but that's not really accurate is it?

    Fingers crossed...

  • Viktor #2 8 years ago

    Landing into an enemy base and stealing an ME262 is historically correct enough for me - as is taking out masses of Amerika Bombers.

    It plays pretty much like Crimson Skies - and feels much more arcadey than previous Lawrence Holland games.

  • sam_spade #3 8 years ago

    Is bullet time historically correct?

  • Viktor #4 8 years ago

    Is shooting down 40 enemy planes in one mission historically correct?

  • sam_spade #5 8 years ago

    Is the ability to leave your body and look down upon your plane so you can see a crosshair gliding across the floor for bombing missions historically correct?

  • Khab #6 8 years ago

    Is being entirely made up of polygons historically correct?

  • Viktor #7 8 years ago

    Is the fact that all plane models are 5x bigger than in real life historically correct? [looks nice, because otherwise they'd obviously be small specks, now they feel massive, though]

  • sam_spade #8 8 years ago

    Does blowing up gates to POW camps with bullets while you fly 5 meters off the ground sound historically correct?

  • Viktor #9 8 years ago

    Is carrying massive bombloads on a fighter plane historically correct? Is out-turning Bf109s and FW-190s in a Mosquito historically correct?

  • Brutebasher #10 8 years ago

    Nah, None of it sounds correct. I was looking forward to Crimson Skies online play for ages but it looks somewhat dissapointing to me. I do like the look of this though 'cos I loved the PC combat flight simulators. I bet this game doesn't have online play over Xbox Live though so I doubt somewhat my purchasing it. Any one have any idea what you do in Rainbow Six 3 online? Do you just play your team against another in real time or is it just you running around and shooting them? Now that would be fun!

  • Tyronne #11 8 years ago

    is it me or does the sudden appreance of this after not all that long make it seem like its gonna be....not so good.

  • Viktor #12 8 years ago

    I'd rate it 3/5 after having completed it. It's short, but fun while it lasts.