Air Conflicts: Secret Wars

Koch has just announced that their latest arcade flight game, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars, will be released in May 2011 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is an arcade flight simulation set in a World War I and II scenario. During the seven campaigns the player has to fly and fight through over 48 missions. Before taking off, the player can choose between different aircrafts, each with different strengths and weaknesses.

Within the missions the player gets different objectives like patrolling, sneaking, hit & run, bombing and escorting. Objectives are presented as dialogues between different characters. After some missions the player can upgrade one of his skills in order to maneuver the airplanes easier, have more endurance or have your wingman boosted. Further, the player can choose between two control schemes. Arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft.

Beside the campaign the game also features several multiplayer modes, local and via internet for up to four players.The game’s key features are listed bellow:

* Seven campaigns, each based upon a resistance movement of the second world war
* Uniquely historical battles such as the siege of Tobruk, the battle of the Neretva Bridge, and Operation Belt in Poland
* Fight for the causes of key resistance movements such as the People’s Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, The Polish Armia Krajowa, and the French Maquis
* Action-packed gameplay delivers the excitement of serial combat in a manner accessible to everyone
* Over twenty different landscapes, each individually detailed with period precision
* Pilot more than 16 individual aircraft, in both World War One and World War Two settings
* Machine gun your enemies, dog fight, bomb ground targets and rocket ground troops and enemy vehicles
* 49 varied missions provide combat, stealth and exploratory gameplay
* The player controls his aircraft with either mouse and keyboard or gamepad
* The player can choose between two control schemes: Arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft
* Several multiplayer modes, local and via internet for up to eight players

New features have today been announced for Air Conflicts: Secret Wars, the new combat action title now confirmed for release in the UK on July 1st, 2011 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers owning stereoscopic 3D television sets will find themselves closer to the aerial action than ever before thanks to Air Conflicts: Secret Wars providing full stereoscopic 3D TV support out of the box.

In addition, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars will also feature full PlayStation Move motion control support in the PlayStation 3 version, with players being able to control their aircraft by tilting the motion controller, as well as being able to activate the exhilarating tail gunner mode.

In Air Conflicts: Secret Wars players can relive the most famous aerial battles of World War I and II like never before. The game provides plenty of variety, as players can fly 16 meticulously detailed and accurate aircraft in nearly fifty missions across the seven campaigns. The mission tasks are diverse and range from air space clearance operations to the bombardment of targets on the ground, attacks on enemy convoys and reconnaissance, escort and patrol flights.

After each successful mission players can upgrade their skills to enable them to control their aircraft more expertly, make their aircraft more robust and select better co-pilots. There are two control modes for the combat aircraft: the controls are simplified in arcade mode and simulation mode offers a realistic control system that is true to the original. Alongside the campaign, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars also features several multiplayer modes, local and via internet for up to four players.

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is developed by Games Farm, published by bitComposer and distributed in the UK by Koch Media. It takes flight in the UK for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC on July 1st, 2011