SG:SA can boast every rendering trick in the book – bump mapping, atmospheric scattering, volumetric clouds with realistic lighting, sun glare, day & night transitions, god rays (eh? God rays? Light filtered down through divine retribution?) But wait, geek lovers! On the iPad 3 (or iPhone 4GS – yes, it works on the iPhone too!) you can expect high definition textures, 4x anisotropic filtering, High Dynamic Range (HDR) rendering, radial blur, jet engine heat haze, refractive raindrops and more! This a game that looks like no other flying over a city and dogfighting round the skyscrapers is an experience not to be missed. Looking to justify your new iPad purchase? Let’s talk about the graphics then. Not bad for £2.99 worth of entertainment. Using either local WiFi or online, all stats, medals and scores are tracked by using Apple’s GameCenter. That before you go multiplayer, where you can put the skills you’ve honed, (in the same modes against other people. Then there’s more single player modes – dogfight missions, survival, free for all, team deathmatch, capture the flag, defend the base and apparently more to come in the future. One of the things that keep you coming back to SG:SA is the number of ways you can play the game to begin with, the game offers several tuitions, then there’s the single player campaign on it’s own won’t take long to finish. Now I don’t really knows taking what the whole ‘Sky Gamblers’ thing is all about, but that’s what comes before ‘Air Supremacy’ so we’ll refer to it as SG:SA, ‘kay? ( EDIT: Aha, so it turns out that the ‘Sky Gamblers’ are…in the campaign! No spoilers here!) What we’ve got here is a ‘Air Combat Game’ (that was taken from Namco’s own iTunes descriptions, but it seem apt) and does exactly what it says on the tin. (Not forgetting that A5X/quad-core GPU) Air Supremacy is one – I hope to review more over the proceeding weeks. I’ve been pleasantly surprised – not only by fact that Apple had several games/apps available at launch, to showcase the iPad 3’s graphics power, but also a raft of apps were upgraded to reflect the higher resolution the iPad 3 can offer. I did the same with (The New) iPad 3 after seeing a few of the tech demos being shown around the iPad 3’s launch, I wanted to see this retina goodness for myself. In addition to the main WWII campaign there are a number of other single-player options that you can try out, including dogfight missions against specific enemy planes, a survival mode where you have to withstand multiple waves of enemy fighters, and free-for-all where you just blast everything in sight.I was always excited by the idea of the iPad as a gaming device it’s that thought alone that prompted me to get the original iPad, and after seeing the delights of Apple’s App Store had to offer, I quickly upgraded to iPad 2. There are also a number of in-app purchases available that allow you purchase additional planes – so you might want to keep the kids away just in case they decide to go on a spending spree with your App Store account. You gain points for completing missions and downing enemy planes, and these allow you to unlock further planes and weapons systems so that you can customize your plane to suit your personal flying and fighting style. Machine-guns fire quickly and are easy to target, but don’t do a lot of damage, or you can opt for slower- moving rockets that do heavy damage but are harder to aim accurately. There are several different planes that you can choose for your missions, each with different weapons, speed and maneuverability. However, more experienced pilots who are looking for a real challenge can switch into ‘simulator’ mode, which provides more realistic movement and controls. There’s a ‘casual controls’ option that helps to stabilize your plane during more tricky manoeuvres, and your radar can help during combat by automatically locking on to the nearest enemy. The Asia-Pacific campaign takes place in locations such as Pearl Harbour, and also includes missions where you’ll be attacking the Japanese fleet at sea as well as in the air.įlight simulation games can be pretty tricky to get to grips with, but Storm Raiders does a good job of catering to casual players who are just looking for a bit of Top Gun shooting action. Stick around for the Battle of Britain and you’ll start out by defending the Dover coast and the skies over Kent from the invading Luftwaffe, and then striking back by taking the fight into enemy territory. The main single-player campaign has two parts, allowing you to take earn your wings in the Battle of Britain or to head out into the Asia-Pacific War.
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