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I am behind on reading my PC Gamer magazines.. anyway, I just came across a review for Rise Of Flight for the pc. It is a WW1 air combat game made by a Russian development company. The review gave it an 82% with the only real negatives mentioned about it being that the single player game was a little too short/thin. The multiplayer action is supposed to be very good though. It comes with 4 playable planes and then you can purchase more from their website if you choose to.
Anyhow, I am going to look for it at my local Target and Gamestop tomorrow and buy it. If I can’t find it there, then Amazon.com is selling it of course.
If anyone cares to join me, I would live to play this against other FITS players.
-Dan
My immediate question is … is it historically accurate?
I mean, if you want to just fly around and shoot at people, you can download and play “Ace of Aces” (no relation to the wonderful flip-book game of the 1980s) for free at InstantAction and have multi-player WWI aerial combat available anytime you want, with a variety of scenarios (from team dogfighting to balloon busting).
I have to admit, though, that despite wonderful graphics, I got bored with the InstantAction “Ace of Aces” game after just a few hours. It’s all arcade-style shooting, and I didn’t get a feel that I was really there in any realistic way.
Another option that I haven’t tried multiplayer (but I used to love playing solo back when it first came out) is the “Red Baron” PC game of the 1990s. You can get it from Great Old Games, which is a site dedicated to translating old PC games from obsolete systems into the latest versions of Windows. Good stuff, and cheap!!! Anyway, “Red Baron” eventually came out in an online multi-player version that I’ve heard was a lot of fun, and from what I can tell, the GOG version still supports it.
Y’know, I might just download “Red Baron” just to play the solo missions. They were a hoot, and you could play them in real time. Yes, I said “real time“! I fondly remember one mission where I had to do everything a pilot back then would do — take off, fly for an hour above the lines in formation, engage an enemy squadron, limp home (taking more than an hour to get back because my plane was damaged), and then land, barely surviving to fight another day. Ahh, those were the days … *smiles warmly*
With all that in mind, good sir, please let us know what “Rise of Flight” is like and whether it’s worth the cost. If it is, I might just consider getting it as well. But it’ll take a lot to make it a better deal to me than “Red Baron,” which you can get in all it’s original glory for a mere ten bucks.
See you in the skies!!!
— Eris
EDIT: Okay, NOW I’m intrigued! I just saw a very thorough (and quite entertaining) video review of the game on YouTube, and Rise of Flight looks nothing short of fantastic. The reviewer repeatedly lauded the game as a work of love that is extremely realistic and a must-have for WWI combat enthusiasts who want something that’s historical and beyond the typical arcade shooter. I can’t come up with forty bucks at the drop of a hat to run out and buy it, but I’m definitely thinking of saving up for it or finding a little mad money to throw at it soon!
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