Air Conflicts: Secret Wars

Been one of my favourites as a single campaign. Would love to see more series like those

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is one of those games that are so obscure, id be surprised if anyone read this review. But as this was a childhood staple for me on the Xbox 360 way back in the day I thought id give it some words. Nostalgia bias aside, this game has definitely not aged well presentation wise, with mission briefings in comic sans font and spelling mistakes. And some missions are either filler and take two minutes to complete (smuggling runs). Or feel so utterly contrived it makes either very little historical/logical sense or just straight up pointless. That being said this game does actually have a story, which punches way above its weight for an arcade flyer from 2011. With chapters in Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Libya among other creative sets from World War 2 that a lot of people don't know happened in real life. But the downside is that combat does get repetitive with only a handful of times the enemy aircraft pose any real difficulty. If you want an interesting flying game to play to pass some time, this is definitely for you. If there was a "mid" review option, this game would definitely fit that criteria. But it's hardly a bad game. 5.5/10

This game has its roots in an old freeware game called Plane Arcade from the same developer. I really liked Plane Arcade back in the days and this seems like a bigger budget version of the same concept. The game is very basic, this is not a simulation by any means, you drop bombs and shoot machine guns while trying to stay alive and finish objectives. You have infinite ammo, but you can overheat the MG and the bombs take time to reload. There is a story and voice acting, but it is so bad, I had to skip most of the cut scenes. Still, I do get the gist of what it was about. I did enjoy the game, but it has issues, most notable ones for me where: - you can not change the controls (but the default mostly worked for me), - you can not play the whole game from the cockpit view as it is almost impossible to hit anything with the bombs from that perspective, - the story is bad, - some objectives are not fun, - I wished the controls were a bit more responsive, not necessary like in Plane Arcade where you could turn around on a dime if you moved the mouse quickly enough, but a bit more responsive than what is here. Still, I think it is OK if you are looking for a simple plane game where …

The only game in the Air Conflicts series that's still completely playable (and still fun!)

Used to play this one as a kid. Overall the experience still holds up, but I´m not sure I´d go around and recommend this to the casual player. The things I like are the soundtrack, the story (even though some of the dialogue delivery is B movie-esque at best), the overall gameplay is solid and I like how it shows aspects of the war that other games don´t show at all, like the war crimes of the Chetniks in Yugoslavia, or the Slovak National Uprising (which is to be expected since the game is made by Slovaks). But some of the missions (especially towards the end of the game) are so bad I can only describe them as digitalized AIDS. Like the one where you have to destroy multiple vehicles of German generals as they´re trying to flee Berlin. Dropping bombs while flying low above narrow streets, and all within an invisible time limit. Or the one where you have to drop a British officer into Berlin while avoiding the searchlights and the Luftwaffe. What frustrated me about that one was that when a Luftwaffe pilot spotted me, I wanted to just break line of sight and continue the mission stealthily, but my tailgunner (being the c*nt that he is), opened fire on the German planes, forc…

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