Heroes over Europe

[Harrison]

The IL-2 Sturmovik series is definitely much better, and a series I really like. But it is more a real Flight Sim than Heroes over Europe is. The graphics are quite amazing and contain a lot of detail and realistic feeling physics, and does make HoE's look quite basic my comparison. The latest game in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey was released in September, but I've yet to play this latest one. It's out on PS3 and 360 as well as PSP, but to the upset of many fans of the series it hasn't been released on the PC yet. I really hope it is as the PC lends itself much better to Flight Sims than consoles can. And a PS3 demo is available on PSN, and I think their is a 360 demo too. I'm going to try the PSP version as it could be a fun game on the little system.

But with HoE it is a pure arcade action shooter with you just being able to fly around shooting the enemy without needing to worry about the intricacies of flying. It's good fun.

The only thing that might frustrate players and make them put HoE down early is some of the requirements during missions. You have to do some exact objectives, and if you get them wrong its mission failure and start again. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it can be frustrating having to play though the whole mission again, knowing you might still not achieve the same objective. Thinks like shooting a plane down in a specific way.

Didn't know that you had a 360 controller

Yeah, when I built my new PC earlier this year and upgraded to Vista I bought a 360 controller as most PC games released in the last couple of years directly support it. Pretty decent gamepad.