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Flyboys Squadron Review
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Posted by Donster on: 2006-12-15 15:32:05 817
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iEntertainment throws its hat into the ring with this World War I flight sim.
By Steve Butts, IGN
While we often lament the absence of World War 2 flight sims, there's an even more disappointing lack of World War 1 flyers. Fans of Hellcats and Messerschmitts have had a small number of series to turn to over the last ten years but gamers who are looking for Spads and Fokkers have been totally out of luck. There was Silver Wish's arcade-focused Wings of War but that hardly satisfied the hardcore fans' longstanding hopes for a true successor to Sierra's Red Baron. Enter Flyboys, the first film in forty years to attempt to capture the strain and spirit of World War 1 dogfighting over the trenches cutting across the fields of France. iEntertainment has taken the Flyboys name and attached it to their own title, a collection of individual missions inspired by the film and a vast online arena where wannabe Rickenbackers and Richtofens can mix it up with each other.
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