Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War - Iron Cross
by 777 Studios
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Product Summary
Brand: 777 StudiosAudio: English (Unknown)
Format: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2010-06-29
Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: 860913000036
Publisher: 777 Studios
Product features:
- New! Two multiplayer dogfight modes with re-spawn capability with support up to 64 players.New! Two scripted campaigns hat in the ring and Ernst Udet both campaigns feature new awards and medals you can win.
- Bonus! Skin-Pack featuring dozens of new life-like, historical paint jobs included.New! Quick mission builder. Quickly create custom combat scenarios in seconds.
- New! Offline mode to fly single-player missions without the need for an internet connection plus online mode that includes statistics tracking. New! In-game products registration makes initial activation pain free. Unlimited installs.
- New! Winter Terrain textures with snowflakes. New! G-effects with blackout and red out and pilot wound effects featuring blood splatter, ringing ears and control difficulty. New! Two original terrain maps for custom mission creation.
- New! Enhanced Graphics featuring High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting, updates cloud layers and ultra-realistic looking rain-drops. New! Realistic wind patterns that interact with functioning windsocks and smoke.
Video Game Reviews of Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War - Iron Cross
Customer Review: This is a simulator, not an Arcade game.
Summary: 5 Stars
To make it short, i am not a newbie with flight sims, indeed i think i must have played all and then some. I will boil this down to WW1 sims.
The last great commercial WW1 game or simulator was Sierra's (or better Dynamix') "RedBaron2 3d", which is more than 15 years old, but still "flown" by some. Patches and complete rewrites of the original game have made this a phantastic sim, but it is showing its age.
There is another almost non commercial up-to-date simulator called "Over Flanders Fields" with its current iteration "phase3", and it is very good. Historically correct, phantastic graphics, and you need a decent PC and some gear like a joystick and even better TrackIR for that. It is a simulator in development, and the next "phase" #4 will be available, but no one knows when. It really set a new standard.
And then there is "Rise of Flight", the latest sim that tries to simulate flying those old crates, on a PC. There are so much reviews all over the net so i will not bore you with the usual details. You need a very good/modern PC and graphic card for this, but this has always been the trick with advanced flight simulators. You also need a decent force feedback joystick, and a nice add-on would be TrackIR, and rudder pedals. You do NOT need the latter two.
The first impression was an overwhelming graphical experience. My problem was that i am not a real pilot, so i trusted my experience in flight sims and expected to be able to fly even the trickiest planes of the time, without a hazzle. After all it's just another sim anyway. Boy was i wrong.
I purchased the initial package, when there were only two planes included (all those others were in development, at the time; and it still is being developed from more planes to all kinds of graphical and flight model improvements), and chose that "Nieuport 17", a jolly little plane, a delight to fly and fairly easy or so i thought. I gave up pretty soon. As one of the pilots of the time wrote " ... in France i crashed and crashed and crashed. I did not do one landing right, and broke my nose everytime. I just did not get the knack of it and crashed the bejesus out of those Nieuports". I do now understand him.
So i took this Albatros plane. Start engine, open radiator (a bit), and started. "Started", well. This bird is much easier to fly than the Nieuport, but those RoF developers did not only simulate the plane, but also temperature, atmospheric conditions (down to small elements you are flying through, wind, rough terrain (no concrete runways but grass and mud) and the torque effects of the engine, propellor wash, stalls, accelerated stalls, spins, flat spins, ground loops and much more. I know no other sim where all this is modelled (forget FS X, or Flight), but then there is also engine management to keep this overheating cylinder head from cracking, adjust throttle, mixture, revolutions and whatnot, don't dive too fadt to not lose your wings and keep this plane straight when trying to reach take-off speed. No need to say i needed a bit practice, especially when landing.
Some 20 planes later also flying online i have come to understand what flying is about, and it is so much fun to almost feel physically how the plane reacts, and foresee what it will do. Each plane has a different attitude, with advantages and fails, and it is not easy at all. You get used to it bit you really need practice.
And i will never find out how to land this Nieuport.
There are some details they still work on: A single player campaign will be released this year, without extra charge. You have to pay for every plane you want to fly though (they are all in the game flown by the artificial intelligence, but if you want to fly it yourself ..), and you also need an internet connection. The latter is my biggest gripe, and i have started crusades in all internet forums against this. Alas, it did not work, i bought all planes and wait feverishly for the next updates, and planes.
If anyone can make use of what i wrote there .. it is just plain fun, and you learn flying. If never this Nieuport ...
All the best,
OW
Description of Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War - Iron Cross
Iron Cross edition for PC:The award-winning WWI flight-sim Rise of flight is back and its bigger and better than ever with Rise of Flight: Iron Cross Edition! Rise of flight: iron cross edition comes chalk full of new features, exclusive content and numerous game play improvements. Rise of flight: iron cross edition brings intense WWI aerial-combat to your computer like never before with enhanced graphics, new modes of game play, new campaigns, new terrain, new special effects and twice the flyable planes! Its never been a better time to pick up the most realistic WWI flight sim ever created and take to the virtual skies! Do you have what it takes to be an Ace. ROF still includes all the features which made it an award winner, such as an advanced flight-model, adjustable difficulty, complex physics engine, progressive damage model and super powerful Mission Editor. And don?t forget the gorgeous graphics, awesome special effects, beautiful 3D models, detailed terrain and challenging artificial intelligence. Rise of flight: Iron Cross edition has something for every flight-sim fan, from single player campaigns to multiplayer dogfights, but one things is for certain, the aerial combat in intense and brutal. Grab your goggles and silk scarf?come join the fight above the trenches! In Addition: Rise of flight from Russian developer neoqb is a state-of-the-art PC flight simulation title that sets a new standard in fidelity, beauty and realism. You can fly eight legendary WWI fighter places alongside or against over a dozen other beautifully rendered aircraft including scouts, fighter, bombers and recon planes. Fly the Spad XIII, Fokker D.VII, Albatross D.Va, Nieuport 28, SE.5a, Pfalz D.IIIa, Sopwith Camel and deadly Fokker Dr.1 into aerial combat over the western front.Air Games
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