Visions of a strategy/flight sim hybrid danced in my head. So it's fair to say that, picking up the game, I had fairly robust expectations, what with the similar name and the Lucasarts logo displayed proudly on the box. It also allowed players to play the flip side-as the Germans, the only goal was to drag the doomed war on as long as possible. SWOTL was as much a strategy game as it was a flight simulator-it allowed players to basically plan the entire air campaign against Germany, and then fly on the various missions as they attempted to destabilize Germany's infrastructure and shatter its defenses. The difference comes in the game's execution. The original game's premise was similar: in desperation as the war turns against them, the German army unleashes experimental jets and rocket planes, hoping that they'll turn the war's tide.
The game is so titled to remind players of perhaps the greatest WWII flight simulator ever, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, which it is a partial remake of. Now that all of the graphical dreams of previous generations are just a generation or two away from being fulfilled, it seems that game design is actually getting more and more lazy.Įxhibit A: Secret Weapons Over Normandy. The game also features unlockable bonuses like new planes and movies.What happened to video games? It seems like they used to make up for lack of graphical and engine possibilities by increasing their scope and imagination. Between missions, the player's plane can be upgraded with things like better armor and engines. The game features over 20 flyable historical aircraft, 15 campaign missions and 20 optional "challenge" missions. The primary enemy of the Battlehawks is their German Luftwaffe counterpart, called Nemesis. As a member of the Battlehawks, you must take part in missions in several war theaters including Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Pacific, experiencing historical battles and encounters like the Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, D-Day and the Battle of Midway. In Secret Weapons Over Normandy, you take the role of James Chase, an American pilot who joins a secret elite squadron of Royal Air Force pilots during World War 2.
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