Blazing Angels : Squadron of WWII - Aircraft of World War II

Maestro · 04-25-2006, 03:07 AM

Greetings ladies and gentlemen.

A new WWII flight sim is coming out from the Montreal company UbiSoft. It's name ? "Blazing Angels : Squadron of WWII".

The game will be in store later this year. Unfortunately, the game will be playable exclusively on X-Box... Damnit !

Anyway, here is the official web site :

http://www.blazing-angels.com/uk/

And I attached the trailer below.

P.S. I don't know why, but I love the music playing on the web site.

loomaluftwaffe · 04-25-2006, 05:23 AM

the German radio sounds came from IL-2, it was the control tower saying "warning, abort runway approach, repeat, abort runway approach"

R988 · 04-25-2006, 09:47 AM

Basically a first person shooter type game but with planes instead of guns, not enough buttons for a real simulation on xbox.

loomaluftwaffe · 04-25-2006, 01:09 PM

I think FPS is meant for PCs

Hunter368 · 04-25-2006, 01:13 PM

Is that avialable on older X-box also or just the 360?

Pisis · 04-25-2006, 02:50 PM

Hmmm, looks as nothing extra..... Fopr example EAW is 7 years old and has a similar, maybe even better and longer intro...

Maestro · 04-25-2006, 08:44 PM

I played to EAW. It was a Warez version I found on internet a few weeks back... So no videos for me.

However, even if I had something like 50 victories my pilot still had the "Pilot Officer" rank I started with and I didn't receive any medals... Even if I was playing with all options set to "realistic". It must be a bug of the Warez version...

Personnally, I think the good old days of flight simulators with all the cockpits details and stuff like that are over. It's less expensive for companies to develop a game for a game platform like the X-Box or the Play Station than develop a computer game.

Why ? Because the hardware in a X-Box is standard to all X-Boxes. So you don't have the compatibility problems that you have with computers. So what companies will do is create the game for a game platform and then (if you're lucky) they will make some minor changes to make a PC version...

Companies like LucasArts already started to do that. They stopped making games of the X-Wing serie and they created Jedi Academy and the Rogue Squadron serie for a game platform first, then made a PC version. They are doing that for most games now.

So I think UbiSoft is gonna do the same thing.

Pisis · 04-29-2006, 05:04 AM

Yes, that must be a bug of that version...
And I agree with you on that XBox issue

Hunter368 · 05-23-2006, 06:53 PM

Anyone play this game yet? It looks cool I just want to know if it worth buying or not.

Soundbreaker Welch? · 05-24-2006, 05:33 AM

I played a demo.

Seemed pretty fun.

04-25-2006, 05:23 AM	#2
loomaluftwaffe Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,848	the German radio sounds came from IL-2, it was the control tower saying "warning, abort runway approach, repeat, abort runway approach" __________________ "The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories." - General der Jagdflieger Adolf Galland"

04-25-2006, 09:47 AM	#3
R988 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Londonium Posts: 609	Basically a first person shooter type game but with planes instead of guns, not enough buttons for a real simulation on xbox. __________________ Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

04-25-2006, 01:09 PM	#4
loomaluftwaffe Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,848	I think FPS is meant for PCs __________________ "The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories." - General der Jagdflieger Adolf Galland"

04-25-2006, 01:13 PM	#5
Hunter368 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 2,240	Is that avialable on older X-box also or just the 360? __________________ "Ivan the Terrible or Russian Achilles" Ivan Kozhedub - Hero of the USSR (x3), Order of Lenin (x2), Order of Red Banner (x7), Order of Alexander Nevsky, Order of the Great Patriotic War (x2), Order of the Red Star (x2), 62 kills during 1943-1945

04-25-2006, 02:50 PM	#6
Pisis Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Praga Mater Urbium Posts: 5,859	Hmmm, looks as nothing extra..... Fopr example EAW is 7 years old and has a similar, maybe even better and longer intro... __________________ "He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too." - Airplane! Memory of Nation Why Did Hitler Want Czechoslovakia WW2 Was A War That Had To Be Fought! What Really Happened in Israel? Children of Hamas

04-25-2006, 08:44 PM	#7
Maestro Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Beaupré, Province of Québec, Canada Posts: 2,381	I played to EAW. It was a Warez version I found on internet a few weeks back... So no videos for me. However, even if I had something like 50 victories my pilot still had the "Pilot Officer" rank I started with and I didn't receive any medals... Even if I was playing with all options set to "realistic". It must be a bug of the Warez version... Personnally, I think the good old days of flight simulators with all the cockpits details and stuff like that are over. It's less expensive for companies to develop a game for a game platform like the X-Box or the Play Station than develop a computer game. Why ? Because the hardware in a X-Box is standard to all X-Boxes. So you don't have the compatibility problems that you have with computers. So what companies will do is create the game for a game platform and then (if you're lucky) they will make some minor changes to make a PC version... Companies like LucasArts already started to do that. They stopped making games of the X-Wing serie and they created Jedi Academy and the Rogue Squadron serie for a game platform first, then made a PC version. They are doing that for most games now. So I think UbiSoft is gonna do the same thing. __________________ Maestro http://www.yantremblay.com/ Last edited by Maestro; 04-25-2006 at 08:46 PM.

04-29-2006, 05:04 AM	#8
Pisis Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Praga Mater Urbium Posts: 5,859	Yes, that must be a bug of that version... And I agree with you on that XBox issue __________________ "He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too." - Airplane! Memory of Nation Why Did Hitler Want Czechoslovakia WW2 Was A War That Had To Be Fought! What Really Happened in Israel? Children of Hamas

05-23-2006, 06:53 PM	#9
Hunter368 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 2,240	Anyone play this game yet? It looks cool I just want to know if it worth buying or not. __________________ "Ivan the Terrible or Russian Achilles" Ivan Kozhedub - Hero of the USSR (x3), Order of Lenin (x2), Order of Red Banner (x7), Order of Alexander Nevsky, Order of the Great Patriotic War (x2), Order of the Red Star (x2), 62 kills during 1943-1945

05-24-2006, 05:33 AM	#10
Soundbreaker Welch? Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 1,893	I played a demo. Seemed pretty fun.

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