Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII Comments by Kristan Reed

It was never gonna be a game for me. I don't think it's got above a 7, even on the most generous of sights.

One big meh.

The forums for the game seem to be awash with people having the exact same issues, so I don't think it's just me!

I played the PC demo last night. It's really pretty awful.

The 360 demo went most of the way to making me not want to play this again. You just finished the job :)

Aye same as Trippie
Buy Crimson Skies instead, if you don't have it already.

These days you can pick up Secret Weapons Over Normandy for about a tenner - one of the most underrated games on the Xbox, IMO.

Definitely - a 9/10 I stand by!

/checks backward compatibility list

Nope

Damnit!!

Does the full version also have the horrible screen tearing that the demo version has?

Unforgivable for a game so graphically undemanding. Ghost Recon also had this as well

The sooner Namco release an online co-op version of Ace Combat the better.

Yeah, the V-Sync tearing is pretty awful in this game.

The demo showed average content, not something to spend 50 euro on. The review is pretty much spoton. :|

crimson skys was so cool, i WAS actually looking foreward to this title.. .
no need for that i see now, to bad, theire not that much good doggfighting games around

"Does the full version also have the horrible screen tearing that the demo version has?

Unforgivable for a game so graphically undemanding. Ghost Recon also had this as well "

Apparently it depends on your TV/Settings.

Some of my friends have some tearing on GRAW and some have none. A bit of a mystery.

Played the demo, not great. Must say though, about a third of the review seems to be 'it is very difficult', not sure thats a reason to mark it down. Haven't seen any tearing - playing on a HD projector, the graphics in the demo varied between excellent and meh.

Still nowhere near a buy, as the review says a good cockpit view might have gone a long way to addressing that (and no voice acting atall, rather than that they have put in).

I loved both Secret Weapons over Normandy and Crimson Skies (and the first PC Crimson Skies with the cool build-your-own-planes option). It's a real shame they won't be making another one. I wonder if there'll be a next-gen sequel to SWoN on the way?

Bloody hell, A 5/10 for this steaming pile of turd, I was expecting a 2 or a 3 to be honest. The demo was terrible.

1. How do those german pilots know that there is an american shooting at them?
2. Is the Vsync tearing still there in this final version?
3. It's just a poor poor game with annoying voice overs.

It's not a next gen game, oh hold on, it has super shiny water! It must be a next gen game that any of the current consoles can do!

It's not that it's very difficult - most of the time it's too easy (being able to repair all damage all the time) - but there are some hideous missions where it doesn't really matter what tactic you use, you'll fail anyway (without actually dying, if that makes sense).

Any WW2 game that has you killing scores of Japs at Pearl harbour can take a running jump IMO. Stupid Yanks. YOU GOT POUNDED ON! You won in the end, let Pearl Harbour lie for God's sake.

This is why I dont understand why demos for crap games come out before the release, and others (like GRAW) come out later...weird.

I cant wait for another "funny" comment along the lines of "360 in average game shocker". My money is on smelly.

Is there a good XBOX dog fighting game that will work on the 360?

I would love to get online and fight it out....!

Crimson Skies 2 is all you need.

Good review, enjoyed reading that.
It is a real shame that it is so bad, its shocking that it is a Ubisoft title. The screenshots look good and the whole dog fighting on XBL is really cool. Just wish it was a better game.

cockpit view, build your own plane - why arn't they in it?

I think Ubisoft thought the game would sell purely because 360 owners would buy it because its new. We need something new, I see nothing really fantastic in these "next-gen" games, its all a pile of bullshit tbh.

Thanks Furbs...

I look forward to shooting you down.. :-)

Another (s)hit 360 game!

/is only teasing ;D

I know this is completely off topic but are there any other good 360 websites with news and reviews.

Not that I dislike EG but its good to have more that one opinion...

I don't undersand the comments this game keeps getting. Maybe I got a different demo on XBL to everyone else, because I genuinely found it great fun! The first time I played it, the training mission bored me to tears and I turned it off. Then my bro told me about the dogfighting afterwards and I tried again. Once I got past the training (always dull!) it was great.

I had no problems with the controls, and no problems with the graphics. I also have my 360 playing through an HD projector (Sim2). Looked great to me! And have happily purchased this through Play (£39)! Can't comment about the difficulty of the full game, but found the demo ok. I think people are getting a little too upset about this apparent "tearing" and the voiceovers, and rubbishing the game as a result. Thankfully I can overlook both of these, and can't wait to play this on Live!

Haven't got a 360 yet but was looking to see the reviews of this game before I treated myself to a Planegame for my humble xbox....not good it seems,so....on xbox1 we have Crimson Skies,Weapons over Normandy and Heroes of the Pacific...which one to get? Eh?Eh?

Is Crimson still busy online?Or how about Heroes?SWON isn't online I take it?

Eh?Eh?

:P

"Typically, you're the rookie Yank-made-good sent out to save those poor hapless Brits/French from the Nazi onslaught"
the stereotypical voice acting and the above mentioned pearl harbour mission make me wonder if this game was ever meant to be be released outside of the US.

I watched a trailer without my headphones on and thought "This looks ace". Then I watched it again with my headphones on and thought "I want to slit my wrists"

i KNEW this was going to be shit..its just a HD version of heroes of the pacific ...a game that came out last year, was decent but held no real importance at all.

Ah well, there's always oblivion.

so worth the £12 UBI aere letting me have it for then? :)

@ Furbs
Crimson Skies 2 is all you need.

I don't think MS are making it, or MechAssault. They didn't sell wel enough. A shame really.

Also, I'm pretty sure Tearing is a TV issue and not game related. I have a 32inch HD screen and have no hearing on any games, the DEMO of this game or while playing GRAW.

At that price i would give it a go..!

"Buy Crimson Skies instead, if you don't have it already."

I would love to, but a SHIT company known as M$ decided to make it Xbox only... even though PC gamers loved it.

They did it to Midtown Madness too....

So on 360 it feels like a poor port... but what about on Xbox?

king_skins you're right, but CS2 works great in backwards comp. mode :P

smoison, maybe if PC gamers had bought more copies, it would have stayed on PC too?

Crimson Skies and Midtown Madness were very popular on PC, and sold well.

But MS wanted people to buy thier XBOX. The end result is PC gamers hate M$ (a bit more).

Do you have any sales figures to back that up? I can only call on anecdotal evidence but I was working in game when Midtown, Motorcross and Crimson Skies came out and despite the best efforts of me and my colleagues to push it (we were all PC gamers) it simply didnt sell very well at all.

Crimson Skies on the PC is a wonderful experience, truely great game. Xbox version is far too arcadey, not that the original is a serious sim of course, with the power ups and so forth but the biggest crime of it is the actor for Nathan Zachery is complete shit in comparison to the original.

Either way in 360 BC mode the Xbox version of Crimson Skies pisses all over Blazing Angels and it's a) an Xbox game and b) three years old.

Crimson Skies sold about 40,000 in the UK on the PC - not very well at all, really, with most of those sales at budget.

Midtown Madness sold roughly 60,000, and the sequel about 40,000. Again, not exactly stellar sales by anyone's standards.

On Xbox Crimson Skies sold about 30,000 - terrible sales for a first party exclusive. Midtown Madness 3 sold even worse - around 20,000.

Microsoft's first party Xbox games - in general - sold very badly. Certainly in the UK. Can't speak for overseas.

Ouch, didnt realise they did that bad on the Xbox - MM3 especially as that was one of the first "2nd wave" titles IIRC.

People would be absolutely amazed how badly most games sell. Those ChartTrack reports reveal endless tales of woe.

MM3 got me to buy an Xbox, looks like it wasn't a killer app for anyone else though.

It wasnt the only reason (ToysRUs doing an awesome bundle at the same time), but MM3 certainly was the final deciding factor in me getting one. Just loved the freedom to do what you want in the series.

"Also, I'm pretty sure Tearing is a TV issue and not game related. I have a 32inch HD screen and have no hearing on any games, the DEMO of this game or while playing GRAW."

I have the Samsung LE52M32. I have no screen tearing on ANY games on the 360, except the Ubisoft ones. Fight Night, PGR, Oblivion - all perfect. GRAW or the demo of this game - Tearing

Same here - it's game-specific, and very rare.

Bugger! This arrived on my desk this morning!

I enjoye the demo I downloaded from the marketplace though ...

On Xbox Crimson Skies sold about 30,000 - terrible sales for a first party exclusive.

U.S sales were rather good.

XBX CRIMSON SKIES: HIGH 454,026