Wings Over Vietnam

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $15.07

Features:

• Simulation gameplay of air combat during Vietnam War
• Accurate planes, weapons, flight models, and enemy AI
• Experience historical missions and air-to-ground missions
• Fly as a U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, or U.S. Navy pilot
• Single and multiplayer gameplay from novice to experienced

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Best Vietnam combat flight simulator ever made [Posted on 2007-03-08]
Wings Over Vietnam was the second of a series of combat flight sims based on the same core engine with an architecture very open to user modifications. The series is intended to provide a modern equivalent to Jane's Fighters Anthology via its fun gameplay and a large variety of flyable aircraft. The aircraft, weapons, and terrains are interchangeable between the various games in the series, which currently includes: the original Strike Fighters Project 1, its European market refresh Strike Fighters Gold, Wings Over Vietnam, Wings Over Europe, and First Eagles.

Over the years, countless user addons have been created. Addons available include hundreds of aircraft, several terrains, weapons, and much more. Most of the addons are completely free to download. Someone new to this series will be overwhelmed by all of the options availble. Instead of trying to download the many addons to enhance the realism and detail of Wings Over Vietnam, you can buy the payware addon Yankee Air Pirates. This addon provides a collection of detailed historical missions that incorporates many of the available addons as well as having a few aircraft only available by purchasing this addon.

Each time a new game is released, patches are released to bring the other games up to the same core engine version level so that any features added to the new game are available in the older games. For example, Wings Over Vietnam added aircraft carrier operations and Wings Over Europe added 3d clouds, now both of those features are possible in a fully patched installation of Strike Fighters Project 1 which originally had neither of those features.

So, besides being fun and fairly realistic, this sim series has the advantage of expanding every year with the full support of the original developer and a devoted group of modders. The latest release, First Eagles, officially expanded this sim series into WWI biplanes. User addons cover WW2 and Korea since the rest of the games focus on jets from the 1960s and 1970s.

There is simply no better sim for recreating Vietnam air combat, and no better combat flight sim series covering aircraft from WWI to the present.

FUN [Posted on 2007-07-23]
Very fun game. A little old compared to the newer flight sims, but the graphics are really good, almost great and the gameplay is really fun. If you are looking for a not so complicated flight sim that you can just get into the air and start flying, killing stuff and having fun, then this is the perfect game.

Super flight sim....needs better manual. [Posted on 2007-08-08]
The graphics and gameplay for this one are great. The flight model really seems to have the 'ring of truth'. Very good in terms of options to "fine tune" the difficulty of the game to suit individual tastes. Only complaint is the manual...not enough info in terms of advice on how to successfully complete mission with the aircraft/weapons in the game (e.g., how to employ air-to-ground ordnance effectively in an F-4).

JUST OK............................... [Posted on 2008-03-14]
I think the game overall is ok but it should have a tutorial which it doesn't. If you've never played a flight sims before I think you might have a problem........My game doesn't allow me to continue if i die.....i have to start all over and reopen the game.Over all I would give this game 2 stars and a half.......It's just not worth 29.95.....If it drops to 19.99 buy it......the graphics are good though.

Way too much of an arcade-styled game, and far from the real deal [Posted on 2008-04-30]
The main merit of this combat flight sim is actually double:
- it enables any aviation enthusiast to get to fly such rare yet remarkable aircraft as the Intruder, Corsair II or Thunderchief.
- it gets its users to take part in a under-covered air conflict: the Vietnam war.

... but then, that's pretty much it! The terrain rendition is terrible poor. The vibes and buffeting of the A/C structure, which is a nice thing in itself, is at times unrealistic as hell: the whole front cockpit section of an A-6 shakes and vibrates, whereas the fixed refueling probe is perfectly still! Also, aircraft flight modeling is far from realistic. A/C in general, be they on your side or the other's, are way too maneuverable. The ground effect is inexistent. Try to get any of the A/C to stall, for fun: I wish you good luck.

Armed A/C gun shells are too powerful too, with only a few direct hits being necessary to send the opponent into tiny burning shrapnels... The radio chatter becomes quickly a drag.

Obviously, this game uses the same graphic engine as its predessor, Strike Fighters. Although the moves are smooth and fluids, the terrain looks like a flat thing, with hardly any depth rendition at all.

I have found myself regretting having purchased this game. For consolation, I turned back to my good old Lock-On which, after many years of being out there for us, is still so remarkable in many aspects that it still provides me with a sense of pilot fulfillment each time I use it. Go for Lock-On instead of Wings Over Vietnam.

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