Chuck "PFunk" Bellows reviews Wings of Prey: Collector's Edition.

http://SimHQ.com/_air13/air_474a.html

Really enjoyable read - cheers PFunk.

Gaijin are currently working on sequels, including a PC only title, so for a first go around I think it's a pretty good effort.

You read fast FF

Yep, when I was 9 I had the reading speed of a 14 year old. Unfortunately I'm 43 now and still have the reading speed of a 14 year old...

You forgot to mention, its still more fun to look at and play than 'CLOD' is..amazing isn't it?!

Right on the money.

Yeah,it's a fair review although I never had all that hassle with the installation.
I will admit that YuPlay sucks,especially on top of Steam (which doesn't suck) and a few times YuPlay has offered me patches that put my installation back a few versions
Maybe my fault for not reading what the patch was,I just assumed that if they offered me a new patch it would be newer than the version I was running.

MP is reasonable,although I rarely see more than half a dozen servers here in the UK.

Pitty the author couldn't find any players to go against in MP, I suppose it's something regional or I don't understand it. He posted on the SimHQ Gaijin forum asking why he can't find anyone online when he tries so I tried to go online as well when I had read it. In Southern Europe it was 3 am and when I got on there were no games showing. I created one without much hope of anyone joining me but very soon had a game with 6 people going. It doesn't always work but sometimes it does. MP is good fun.

I agree on some points mentioned. The customer experience leaves some to be desired and Gaijin could learn from reviews like this. It should be easy for (potential) customers to get and enjoy products, not hard.

I wish the author would have spent a bit more time with the game in Simulator mode and explain a bit closer what he meant by saying the FMs defy most Newtonian rules. I did a bit of testing of the latest flight models and the performance characteristics are very close to the historical models. In more ways than not I find the FMs to be correct. However, there are some aerodynamic issues which may be visible for experienced simmers or real life pilots. http://forum.gaijinent.com/index.php?/topic/3777-aerodynamic-principles/
http://forum.gaijinent.com/index.php?/topic/3598-fm-testing-since-1037-beta/

I should be adding that the immersion Wings of Prey creates due to its amazing graphics is perhaps the best I've ever seen.

MAC

To be fair, Mac, I think the title is far more popular where you are than where I am, and that's unfortunate. It's unfortunate because this game has potential and IT LOOKS AMAZING.

I really have been looking for a replacement for Jane's WW2 Fighters for a while now. CFS3 almost did it, but you needed the Airpower expansion in order for it look anything less than ugly. And even then, it wasn't a very good game.

IL2 was a cheating dog. I hated it for that very reason. It looked phenomenal, the flight dynamics were dead-on, but I didn't fly MP when it came out because unlike the rest of the country, I was in a rural area and living on dial-up internet. I loved the way it looked and flew, I hated the way it cheated in order to kill me.

I really wanted to like WOP and it pisses me off that I came away cold from it.

Thanks for the review, I had fun reading it.

I have the game, but don't play it. I used to just fly around.