But, when that last enemy is a small fuel silo that you needs to be bombed, then the entire game slows down and just becomes a series of dive bombs until one sticks. In many missions you’re required to clear out every enemy before the checkpoint is triggered and a new wave of objectives opens up. It’s just a pity that the game is also paced quite poorly. It’s a different experience from land-based shooters, and it takes more talent to get right. With no cover up in the sky it is a pilot’s skill and the ability to take the enemy down before he himself is shot down that is the key to success.
There’s a thrill to executing the perfect dive-bombing run and pulling up and to safety mere feet from the ocean.Īir Conflicts enables these thrills. There’s such a thrill to being able to shake off an enemy sitting on your tail in a dogfight, wheel around and shoot him down with a couple of well-placed bullets. So here’s why I prefer my shooters to take place in the sky the full 360 degrees of movement opens up skills and strategies that are just not possible on land-based shooters. Using the Pearl Harbour World War 2 setting enables a wealth of historical authenticity and spectacular, dramatic battles, and the game goes to great lengths to capture this drama while offering a mix of arcade and simulation controls to suit players of all levels. Fighter Flight Simulators are endlessly compelling to me, with the best offering intense dogfights, surprisingly strategic play and of course the soaring feeling of being up amongst the clouds.Īir Conflicts: Pacific Carriers is not the finest example of the genre on the PlayStation 3 (the horrifically underrated Birds of Steel earns that award), but it is a wonderful attempt nonetheless. While I’m not a big fan of First Person Shooter genre, I am a big fan of one other kind of military shooter the kind where you’re in the air.
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