New rival game

[Riceball]

Originally Posted by Flying Coffin

Hardly surprising to find another flying game being dismissed on a fanboy forum like this one lol.

I took IL2 out on rental and passed.

I took HoE out on rental and I'm buying it.

Sturmovik is the better simulator but HoE is by far the better game. There is a difference. The vast majority of gamers out there are a million miles away from the people who form the main membership of this forum. They haven't somehow convinced themselves that they've flown WWII fighters for real and really don't give a rat's ass whether they can use a joystick or not. What they want is a game that has no pretensions and delivers a fast and fun gaming experience in both single and multi player. Sturmovik could have delivered this AND its niche market simulation offerings. It didn't, it won't, and that's why it's a dead game online already except for a small handful of aviation bores and boosters.

Sturmovik makes too many mistakes and has way too many obvious omissions to ever be more than a very minor cult hit among the aircraft nerd community.

Mock HoE as you like, I bet we see a sequel for it though. That's not a guarantee for a failure like Sturmovik.

Heroes of the Pacific is one of my favorite games of all-time. So I was looking foward to HoE.

But from what I hear, HoE is not even as good as HotP. So that would put HoE in the minor leagues compaired to BoP.

But, I'm glad you found a game that you like. See you when you wake up.

[FOZ_1983]

C'mon guys!!!! didnt your parents ever teach you not to feed the trolls!!!!



Back on topic now...

HoP was a superb game at the time, but since then more advanced games have come out, things haves progressed slightly. HoE hasn't jumped on the bandwagon. They have kept it how it once was, but have somehow taken the good things from it and made it worse!!! IL2 is the flying game to play, whether it be arcade or sim you like...IL2 offers it.

[haitch40]

ok from what i saw on the trailer HOE wasnt just worse game than HOTP but it has worse graphics

[Riceball]

Originally Posted by haitch40

ok from what i saw on the trailer HOE wasnt just worse game than HOTP but it has worse graphics

Watch this:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/53792.html

It looks good, but it is lacking elsewhere. You can collide with a plane and just bounce off of them.

[FOZ_1983]

Collision detection is HoE..... NON!!


you just bouce off targets. Ridiculous!!

[Wissam24]

Looks very shabby

[PantherAttack2]

lol, kinda reminds me of the Blazing Angels 2 demo... I flew straight into a cliff and bounced off, damaged but still very alive.

[Riceball]

Originally Posted by Wissam24

Looks very shabby

Yeah. I should have said the graphics look good. Not the game being "good".

[fritzwendel]

Originally Posted by Riceball

Watch this:

It looks good, but it is lacking elsewhere. You can collide with a plane and just bounce off of them.

Notice the slowdown in this vid; it just gets worse as the game progresses through the missions. The last mission in the game, Berlin, is almost unplayable for long stretches because the game can't handle it.

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by fritzwendel

Notice the slowdown in this vid; it just gets worse as the game progresses through the missions. The last mission in the game, Berlin, is almost unplayable for long stretches because the game can't handle it.

I also notice the weird stats for the planes. Mosquito slow but high agility????
The Meteor with only 3/5 stars for speed??? thats just crazy. The P-51 with as much armour as a P-47???????
Damn the Thunderbolt was a tank, One shot in the right place could down a Mustang.

Its just all wrong.