Wings Over Europe
Third Wire Productions · 2014 · Simulation, Flight, Cold War
PC
Mixed58% · 11562Metacritic
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About Wings Over Europe
Wings Over Europe: Cold War Gone Hot lets you pilot any of the 12 most legendary Cold War fighters! Realistic air combat is waiting for you, in some of the most intense dogfights of the Cold War era. Flyable aircraft include the: F-100 Super Sabre, F-105 Thunderchief, F-4 Phantom II, F-15 Eagle, A-10 Thunderbolt II, British Hunter, and the exciting vertical take-off and landing of the Harrier "jump jet." Next generation environmental effects including volumetric clouds and state-of-the-art dynamic lighting Highly-accurate planes, weapons, flight models, and challenging enemy AI Win decorations, awards, and promotions with each successful mission.
Features:
- Engage in blood-draining, G-pulling, action-packed dogfights against 13 different types of Cold War Soviet aircraft.
- Fly era-specific aircraft through Central Europe in three epic campaigns.
- From the developers of the highly successful European Air War, Strike Fighters: Project 1, and Wings Over Vietnam.
- Random mission generator provides maximum flexibility and replayability. Campaign missions also have a different outcome each time.
- Open architecture for mod support. Download thousands of user-created skins, aircraft, terrain, missions, campaigns, and editors already available on the Internet.
- Next generation environmental effects including volumetric clouds and state-of-the-art dynamic lighting.
- Highly-accurate planes, weapons, flight models, and challenging enemy AI.
- Win decorations, awards, and promotions with each successful mission.
Features:
- Engage in blood-draining, G-pulling, action-packed dogfights against 13 different types of Cold War Soviet aircraft.
- Fly era-specific aircraft through Central Europe in three epic campaigns.
- From the developers of the highly successful European Air War, Strike Fighters: Project 1, and Wings Over Vietnam.
- Random mission generator provides maximum flexibility and replayability. Campaign missions also have a different outcome each time.
- Open architecture for mod support. Download thousands of user-created skins, aircraft, terrain, missions, campaigns, and editors already available on the Internet.
- Next generation environmental effects including volumetric clouds and state-of-the-art dynamic lighting.
- Highly-accurate planes, weapons, flight models, and challenging enemy AI.
- Win decorations, awards, and promotions with each successful mission.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It pains me to say this, but this version in unplayable. That's not to say that the game is bad - I used to play this on Windows XP with a Hotas and TrackIR, and it was magic. It was a great flight sim - not too hard, and very fun. Third Wire Productions made a whole series of these Wings Over titles. My favorite was Wings over Vietnam. This version... it doesn't really run smoothly on a modern machine - even at very modest graphics settings the view is choppy, and the the game crashes when you try to exit a flight. Despite the fact that I'm using an RTX 3070, which is light years ahead of what this title ran natively on. A real shame because the game itself was pretty great when it came out 18 years ago. [quote=author]I am a Steam Curator - if you like my reviews (or even if you don't), you can join my group here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42458001-Phantom-Space-Reviews/[/quote]3 found this helpful
only buy on sale, infact steam is not the best way to play this classic. needs patching to work. steam have slipped up here like many other classics. once issues are sorted its fun classic.1 found this helpful
Working for me on Endeavour OS thru Proton. I installed the 2008 October patch using Wine, and then the Desert Storm mod again using Wine. Game runs better with graphics cranked up than at high or medium. Occasionally blackscreens after a mission or when changing focus to another application, but does not crash my whole system. Occasional momentary freezes in game, but gameplay resumes. Opentrack works. Joysticks detected. Set sound to 32 channels for better quality; 16 channels is old school crunchy audio.
If your PC can't run DCS or you don't want to spend money on expensive planes also from DCS then this is the game for you. Recommended!
May or may not run on your modern computer. In my case it crashes every time I try to enter flight. Bring the new ones here Third wire. What gives?
The game is so old that it doesn't run on my computer.
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