Wings Of Prey Full-[Multi-(English-Spanish)-[2010]-[DVD1]-[DXD]

Wings Of Prey Full-[Multi-(English-Spanish)-[2010]-[DVD1]-[DXD]



Minimum:

System: Microsoft Windows XP SP3
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3200 MHz
RAM: 1 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256 MB
Recommends:

System: Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2400 MHz
RAM: 2 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 512MB




Developer: Gaijin Entertainment
Review Date: January 2010
Reviewer: Edwin Millheim




Flying through the fast darkening sky and willing myself to see farther out into the purple and black encroaching night. Searching for that tiny glint of metal catching the setting sun. A speck in vast space of cloud cover and condensation forming droplets and streaking water across my canopy. Flight lead calls over the radio moments later, possible enemy aircraft. There a thousand feet or so forward and below us, coming in and out of view through the cloud cover, five twin engine craft. Far below the beautiful countryside is not foremost on my mind, but far below the patches of green forest and rolling hills will be the only witness to the rain of death my flight is about to unleash. Lining up the twin engine craft in the rear of the flight I ease the throttle to the stops and the cockpit rattles with the increase of power. The P51 bolts through the sky, a thing alive, it's prey in sight, and it's moving in for the kill. The enemy craft don't go into any kind of defense maneuvers.... they don't see us. Sure enough, they are German aircraft. Moving my sights to just ahead of the aircraft nose, I hold off until the twin engine craft is growing in my site. Holding down the fire button, the tracer fire marches from mid cockpit to tail of the craft. I continue to fire as bits fly off of the target. Too close, my windscreen is pelted with debris and bits of burned oil from the target....One of it's engines must have picked up some shrapnel, it's starts to belch thick black smoke and soon after as I rocket past I can already see the orange, red flames licking across it's wing root. They are done for.


That was one of the many missions I had over the course of playing Wings Of Prey by Gaijin Entertainment. It took a bit to get the control layouts set up to my liking, but not long after that the fun soon ensued.

The game may well have several balls juggling in the air when it's trying to hit a wider target audience, and it gets so many things right, but frustratingly a few things wrong that degrade the over all player experience. The patches do address some of the issues. Like a prized stallion “Wings Of Prey” prances bucks and is a thing of beauty, and a joy to play. Before the patch, some of the quick missions for instance hold so much promise for a spectacular player experience, but then fizzles out in literally a few seconds of game time. Take for instance a night mission, with search lights stabbing the darkness of the sky, the players job in the mission is to distract the enemy....there you are in the pitch black of the night and gloom, search lights fingering blindly in the night sky searching for you, your just waiting for the blasts of tracer from the ground and then all of a sudden... the mission success flashes on screen and the game goes back to another load screen for after action reports. This happens in more than a couple missions and is so very frustrating. Especially for some of those missions that hold some curve of a new player experience, only to be snatched away like, 'Oh, our graphics are so cool... so is this concept for a mission... but nya ...nya, that's all for you! Go play some other missions or the campaign instead.” Thankfully the patches seemed to address this and other issues, so instant win missions seem not to take place any more. Replaying the missions after patch yielded some rather gut wrenching experiences (that's in a good way) that where a spectacular mix of air and ground mission events.




WINGS OF PREY

GAIJIN ENTERTAINMENT
Gameplay 7.5
Graphics 8.0
Sound 8.0
Value 6.5
Developer: Gaijin Entertainment
Review Date: January 2010
Reviewer: Edwin Millheim

8.0


Wings of Prey

Flying through the fast darkening sky and willing myself to see farther out into the purple and black encroaching night. Searching for that tiny glint of metal catching the setting sun. A speck in vast space of cloud cover and condensation forming droplets and streaking water across my canopy. Flight lead calls over the radio moments later, possible enemy aircraft. There a thousand feet or so forward and below us, coming in and out of view through the cloud cover, five twin engine craft. Far below the beautiful countryside is not foremost on my mind, but far below the patches of green forest and rolling hills will be the only witness to the rain of death my flight is about to unleash. Lining up the twin engine craft in the rear of the flight I ease the throttle to the stops and the cockpit rattles with the increase of power. The P51 bolts through the sky, a thing alive, it's prey in sight, and it's moving in for the kill. The enemy craft don't go into any kind of defense maneuvers.... they don't see us. Sure enough, they are German aircraft. Moving my sights to just ahead of the aircraft nose, I hold off until the twin engine craft is growing in my site. Holding down the fire button, the tracer fire marches from mid cockpit to tail of the craft. I continue to fire as bits fly off of the target. Too close, my windscreen is pelted with debris and bits of burned oil from the target....One of it's engines must have picked up some shrapnel, it's starts to belch thick black smoke and soon after as I rocket past I can already see the orange, red flames licking across it's wing root. They are done for.

That was one of the many missions I had over the course of playing Wings Of Prey by Gaijin Entertainment. It took a bit to get the control layouts set up to my liking, but not long after that the fun soon ensued.

The game may well have several balls juggling in the air when it's trying to hit a wider target audience, and it gets so many things right, but frustratingly a few things wrong that degrade the over all player experience. The patches do address some of the issues. Like a prized stallion “Wings Of Prey” prances bucks and is a thing of beauty, and a joy to play. Before the patch, some of the quick missions for instance hold so much promise for a spectacular player experience, but then fizzles out in literally a few seconds of game time. Take for instance a night mission, with search lights stabbing the darkness of the sky, the players job in the mission is to distract the enemy....there you are in the pitch black of the night and gloom, search lights fingering blindly in the night sky searching for you, your just waiting for the blasts of tracer from the ground and then all of a sudden... the mission success flashes on screen and the game goes back to another load screen for after action reports. This happens in more than a couple missions and is so very frustrating. Especially for some of those missions that hold some curve of a new player experience, only to be snatched away like, 'Oh, our graphics are so cool... so is this concept for a mission... but nya ...nya, that's all for you! Go play some other missions or the campaign instead.” Thankfully the patches seemed to address this and other issues, so instant win missions seem not to take place any more. Replaying the missions after patch yielded some rather gut wrenching experiences (that's in a good way) that where a spectacular mix of air and ground mission events.

While before the patch this issue was a glaring troll of a game kill, Wings Of Prey soars high like an ace now.

It does a good job of blowing the players socks off. How do you even measure a game? There are so many different schools of thought on that, opinions are a plenty out there. What it boils down to really.... is it fun? Yes it's fun, Wings Of Prey is an awesome looking game.......