Wings Of Prey

[Dagger]

Hi gents I was wondering if you have played/are playing the Wings of Prey game. I know you can get it on Steam. I'm curious what you think of it I don't know if I should bother buying it.

Here's a video of it in action

[MadTrooper]

Dagger,

I've never played it but it looks good !!

[B16Enk]

No u cannot host an IP game and there are no dedicated servers nor will there ever likely be as this game is a covert scaled down pre-released money making version of Storm of War.

Is that right, this is a kind of paid beta of SoW or is that guy talking horse shit in their forums?

[fruitbat]

horse shit.

[T_O_A_D]

I really don' t have a clue, but rumours about have had me steer clear of it.

But my Dad keeps asking me, and I keep telling him to just play IL2 and wait for SOW.

Well now this post, so I'm actually looking now.

Well you buy it, and other addons from here.

http://yuplay.com/story.php?title=Wings-Prey-9

Developer: Gaijin Entertainment

Publisher: Gaijin Entertainment

Genre: Simulation

Platform: PC

Release date: December 25, 2009

Wings of Prey is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II. Players can participate in some of the war’s most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and bombers across a range of thrilling missions. There are six theatres of war to engage in – The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Ardennes, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun' representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.

Wings of Prey also boasts an all new damage effects engine as well as advanced environmental visuals enriching the game play. Wings of Prey features hundreds of airplanes taking part in air battles. The unique environmental engine also produces highly detailed, realistic landscapes that allow players to see breathtaking ground support actions.

Game Features:

* Authentic World War atmosphere: Cutting edge technologies with highly detailed visuals bring the epic battles to life;

* Engage in more than 50 missions from famous historical battles over Eastern and Western Europe;

* Historically accurate aircrafts: Experience over 40 planes including fighters, battle planes and bombers. Learn to master Spitfire, Mustang, Messerschmitt and many more;

* Flexible difficulty level system: from arcade to realistic simulation;

* Downloadable content support: more planes and missions are coming next year;

* Support of 6-DOF TrackIR, TripleHead2Go, Saitek and Thrustmaster joysticks, mouse and voice headsets;

* Thrilling multiplayer: 4 game modes to choose; VoIP, lobby game system, leaderboards, friends lists, join-in-progress and host migration features provide great experience;

* Realistic sound effects and original music from Jeremy Soule

Minimal System Requirements:

* Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3200MHz

* RAM: 1024 Mb

* Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256 Mb

* HDD: 10 Gb free disk space

* OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, DirectX 9.0c.

* Soundcard, DirectX compatible

* Internet connection: 56 kb/s

* Keyboard, mouse

Recommended System Requirements:

* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2400 MHz

* RAM: 2048 Mb

* Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 512 Mb

* HDD: 10 Gb free disk space

* OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 with DirectX 9.0c / Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 / Microsoft Windows 7

* Sound card: DirectX compatible with support 5.1

* Internet connection: 512 Kb/s

* Keyboard, mouse, joystick

Their contact info is located hear and in the USA

http://www.airwargame.com/eng/community/

No matter the language choice.

Makes me think it has nothing to do with any of the old school Flight sim makers. (has any of them changed their name recently, Short NEOQB to 777 for Rise of Flight )?

They are listed on sever forums, twitters, and such.

http://www.airwargame.com/eng/community/

Ah I see it is like ROF , you want more planes you have to purchase them, not at all a Oleg mentality, at least not Historically.

http://www.airwargame.com/eng/updates/

After researching I I remember why I shelved the idea.

Just like Warbirds the game looks and feels too much like a long term expense.

Oleg spoiled me.

[CaptJackG]

I see where Rise of Flight is coming out with an updated boxed version with all the game updates and several available a/c. I've seen a lot of good writeups about this game so I've ordered this game and hopefully will be pleased with it. Many years ago I really enjoyed Red Baron so I'll let you guys know about ROF when I get it.

[BadAim]

I might just go for ROF, now that you can get 8 flyables with it. Birds of prey, on the other hand is a console flying game ported to PC, it has no relationship to SOW whatsoever and only the name in common with IL2. I tried the demo once.

[Dagger]

Oh yeah I have Rise of Flight, the demo, and that's actually a lot of fun. Of course you need to pay extra for each plane that you want unlocked and that's kinda meh

On the other hand I've been reading on the Wings of Prey forum and it seems the game is lacking in immersion. It does look pretty though.

[Kimosabi]

Wings of prey has the looks, IL-2 has the flight physics. That's basically it. I'm not the guy that buys a sim for it's looks so I'll wait for SoW, or maybe get RoF in the meantime.

[BadAim]

The new boxed version of ROF (Iron Cross edition iirc) will have 8 flyable planes and two new historical campaigns, plus all of the updates, and no online requirement for playing offline content! I kind of feel bad for the early adopters who payed full price then had to buy the planes separately.

[T_O_A_D]

The new boxed version of ROF (Iron Cross edition iirc) will have 8 flyable planes and two new historical campaigns, plus all of the updates, and no online requirement for playing offline content! I kind of feel bad for the early adopters who payed full price then had to buy the planes separately.

Yep a bit of a hosing for sure.