As the skill of the crew increases, so does the skill of the player. the more you play, the better you get, the greater understanding of the roles of the crew members. There are flying games, there are war games, there are people sim games, but this brings all those elements together cleverly. Unfortunately the answer is nothing except imagination and ingenuity. The question is, does it do enough? All the standard elements are there that you would expect, so what have Curve Digital bought to the table to make them stand out from the rest. Rogues gallery.īomber Crew does everything it does well. Sometimes you will get an ‘Ace’ that will come to shoot you down, these planes have visible health bars so target them quickly and destroy them before they destroy you. Make sure that you take the time to target any enemy fighters to make sure your aircraft stays in the air as long as possible. Also the fact that you don’t actually control the plane takes a lot of getting used to. Getting used to the controls does get some getting used to. Complete side missions to upgrade your aircraft if the campaign missions are getting too difficult. Spend money to increase the crew’s chance of survival as well, especially the higher level ones. Crew members get experience, they level up and get new skills. This action negates the negative effect of losing time with the trickier version.ĭo missions to get money, spend money on upgrades, last longer in the sky. Because the console version is slower to move the ‘mouse’, time slows down when choosing where to send your crew member. There is essentially no difference in the gameplay from the PC to the PS4, but as with most games that are available on both, game makers are aware that there is no realistic mouse option available on consoles and so compromise is used. Play the campaign mode first to learn the controls. Take off, raise gear, get ammo, get health kit, get fire extinguisher, bail out etc… Actually that was a pretty good description of my first attempt. There are a limited number of things you can get your crew to do, so the game should be relatively easy. This game should have been called ‘Sims in the Sky’, or just been an add on called ‘The Lancaster Bomber Expansion Pack’. The issue is that you do not control the plane, you control the people inside of the plane.
The reason for this is simple, these two words will need to be at the forefront of your mind during the game. One would initially think that conjuring the spirit of Douglas Bader would be the way forward, well that might work, but I was more in the land of a different Douglas, Douglas Adams. Take control of a bomber during World War II and bomb things, drop supplies, take recon photos and shoot down as many enemy fighters as possible. Who has the fire extinguisher? Might need a paint job as well. Parachute at the ready, flask of tea and full instructions to smoke me a kipper, I’ll be home for breakfast left for the kitchen staff, AKA my wife.Ĭhocks away once more. I thought as I had already played the game on the PC ( Here) I would take a quick look and let you know my thoughts. The drama and anxiety of individual missions-to Kassel, Munich and Augsburg as well as Berlin-is evoked with thrilling immediacy while the military events and strategic decisions are interwoven deftly with the narrative of the crew’s operational careers.Curve Digital and Runner Duck Games have released Bomber Crew for the PS4. From their earliest beginnings through training in North America and the danger of the 45 bombing raids they flew with 97 Squadron, David Price describes the crew’s wartime experiences with human sympathy allied to a technical understanding of one of the RAF’s most iconic aircraft. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, Upper Gunner George Widdis, Tail Gunner "Jock" Bolland, Flight Engineer Ken Randle and Radio Operator Roy Woollford were seven ordinary young men risking their lives in the dark skies above Hitler’s Reich. The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew’s sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war’s end.
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