Take To The Skies In Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight, Blasting Onto Switch On 21st February

$10...that is an insanely low price for the offering given it's good.

The genre is quite niche (unless following a free to play model) but the pricing is awfully generous.

Keeping an eye out.

This looks really good. I'll buy it if the reviews are good.

Still not as good as Fast Jockey: Great Depression Horseracing.

Switch's answer to Ace Combat 7

It’s a mobile app port, loading free version to my iPad now to see if it’s any good. It’s £4.99 on App Store btw

Edit: it’s awful on mobile. Touch controls are a joke. It’s made to use your right thumb for yoke control and left hand side has lock on button that auto locks and follows enemy’s. Then it’s just mash machine guns rinse and repeat. Weird hearing a WW2 RAF pilot shout “locked on”. Deleted it from my iPad, even free it’s not worth the drive space.

We need War Thunder or a Birds Of Prey port for Switch. There’s a huge gap in market for a decent WW2 flying game and this is not it

I must have this! Reminds me of Hunt for the Red Baron, which was an awesome experience as a kid!

@Nostromo8 Thanks for the mini review. Though the visuals look great, your words are a good caution. I can always go back to the cartoony Skies of Fury for a flying sim. Though repetitive, that game is fun.

A big fan of flightsims but unfortunately there has been a plethora of poor quality ones infesting the mobile market and now they are making their way onto the Switch. A far cry from the genre’s heyday during the 6th Gen of consoles.

Back to Ace Combat 7 it is; unless Kono-san sees the Switch as a nice platform for a spin-off, or that AC3 remake (hint hint!)

Ok, now we need a proper Flight Stick for the Switch, or is anyone using a third party one now that works ?

Yep, I will be all over this and Sky Gamblers: Afterburner.

Now, if only Project Aces would drop us a proper Ace Combat on the Switch...

@Shiryu That's a port of Ipad Infinite Jets. Its a brilliant game, really a portable Ace Combat. So glad to see it ported to switch. I play it on ipad with a controller and only other day was thinking it would make a great switch game. Cityscapes are amazing in it and it has brilliant feeling of speed

@dugan yeah it's a damp squib this one. Luckily Sky Gamblers (see above) is coming so at least there's one great air combat game to look forward too

Any word on squadron 633? I like these sorts of games but this looks like a poor mobile port at best.

For that price it's mine.

Me watching video: pumped!
Me reading comments: “£&@?ing mobile ports!!”

@Nostromo8 I very much enjoy the previous Sky Gamblers, like most mobile to Switch ports they benefit immensely from having proper button controls.

@Shiryu yeah physical controls are a must for air combat. I play it with a madcatz pad on ipad. If they can get the same level of detail on switch version, and trailer looks like they did, then this is a killer buy. It's got full campaign and online multilayer. I just like bombing through the skyscrapers in San Francisco
Here's how it should look on switch screen
https://youtu.be/Sm8M1szr9vY

@Nostromo8 Good times ahead!

@Varkster exactly my though... At first I was like: Sounds nice, will add it on my watch list for a little prize dro... 10€?? day one lol

I don't like how they not have the Swastikas with the German cross on in the some of the resent games set in WW2 like this one. That is historically inaccurate they should have Nazi swastikas on the fighter planes and other Nazi Germany military vehicles of that time period.

Great game, just bought it with even lower price. Has motion controls and enemy locking which is quite easy and fun, also has hardcore mode. Switch doesn't need cumbersome flightsticks lying around your table, you have joy-con and that is quite simple and fun to use as flightstick.