Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II - Sony PSP

I recently purchased Air Conflicts and IL-2 Sturmovik, both for the PSP platform. Honestly, the strengths of both of these games should be combined to make one really good WWII combat simulator game. The flight physics of IL-2 is much better than A.C. However, A.C.'s level of realism in telling the story is much better. You can choose which side you want to fly for, you are promoted as you progress successfully through campaigns, you can earn medals (that are actual medals that the Air Force branches of these countries awarded their pilots and not some game-achievement medals that software designers made up), and the overall challenge of the game is much more. IL-2 has a somewhat easy targeting system when shooting down planes and ground targets. I felt like this game was almost too easy. Air Conflicts is harder. The main frustration with this game though, is the unrealistic physics of flight. I wish I could fly a loop like in IL-2. Neither game allows barrel rolls, which is unfortunate. The audio effects of Air Conflicts is better, as well as the explosion effects of the planes. When you blow up a plane in IL-2, it just kind of turns into a fireball and then disappears. In Air Conflicts, you can see the change from a damaged smoking plane to a plane about to blow up and then an exploded plane falling to the ground. The instrument panel of Air Conflicts is more realistic but you don't have an altimeter, which is kind of annoying. In IL-2, you have an altimeter but lack a compass to know your heading. Seriously, if both of the teams responsible for making these two games could have just worked together, they could have created one really good WWII combat flight simulator for the PSP.

Air Conflicts: Aces of WWII is almost fun but has some fatal flaws that just make it annoying. First the nit-picky stuff: the writing is too small and the music is silly. The load times are excessive given the ordinary graphics, lack of video embeds, or interactive game teammates.Now the serious flaws: on most boards there is no option to go back and replay that mission. Once you die or lose the mission, that's it, and the game moves you on to the next board without a chance to better yourself, your score, or to just play it again. This is explained in the manual as the war moving on or something, but this ruins gameplay. A few missions allow you to take off, but on most boards you just spawn near the fight then the game just ends when you complete the mission, without the opportunity to land back at base. Also, many of the boards are useless flying-through-waypoints missions, which is fine for an initial practice board, but not for several missions in a campaign. Finally, I understand this is not a flight simulator, but the pitch control is not nearly sufficient to dive steep enough to engage targets in a dive bomber or strafing profile, nor climb to attack enemy aircraft from below.Overall, once you get through the aggravating load times, disable the music, and ignore the very arcade-ish play, it is kind of fun to "fly" in and against the different types of historic planes from both sides of the conflict and shoot them down. This novelty wears off quickly, however.

It's a $10.00 game at best, NOT what it's going for. It loads slow, but that's okay. In "Novice" mode, the planes are hard to control the the "sight" spot is just that....a spot. Graphics are not that great. You can't see that targets until you're over them. If you "time out" in a game, you can't go back and do it over, unless you crash. The planes are cool though, and fun just to fly around with.

Good game

Fun game, easy to play and in great condition for used with case and manual. Really fast delivery!

My son received this as Christmas present and he was very happy to get it - this one was high on his list.

Overall an okay game but it did require re-booting my PSP. Not as much detail as I had hoped for but will provide a diversion from work or while on an airplane.

I bought the game thinking it would be fun. its fun when its not taken 2 mins to load up and play with other then that its fun and enjoyable.

This is a fun WWII flight sim game, controls are easy to learn and the missions are pretty straight foward. It's is to pick up and play within a few minutes. If you like flight combat games, then add this one to your list for the PSP, as it has pretty decent graphics, and is easy to play.

Bad Controls !