Wings by Cinemaware is a great game with a good storyline and there is enough action to keep you playing for hours on end. I had this game for my Amiga when I was a teenager and my brother and I went through a fair few joysticks playing it.
Occupying your time by going on sorties into enemy territory, waiting for the Luftwaffe to come out of the clouds ready for battle or if you were lucky, you would have the advantage and drop in on the unsuspecting enemy.
Wings by Cinemaware is a great game with a good storyline and there is enough action to keep you playing for hours on end. I had this game for my Amiga when I was a teenager and my brother and I went through a fair few joysticks playing it.
Occupying your time by going on sorties into enemy territory, waiting for the Luftwaffe to come out of the clouds ready for battle or if you were lucky, you would have the advantage and drop in on the unsuspecting enemy. One day you could be strafing enemy troops protecting their trains travelling with supplies for the frontline or dropping bombs on the submarines in port and the next you could be Balloon busting or protecting
your airfield from marauding biplanes.
Flying is very easy once you get the hang of it but you can stall the plane if you climb too high too fast or even have your guns jam at a crucial time when you thought you were just about to finish your opponent. The more accomplished a pilot you become, the higher the skill of the enemy becomes, culminating in a fight with the red baron himself, not only once if you don’t get him the first time. The graphics are the typical Cinemaware quality that you’d expect from them. From memory the flight graphics were simple but did the job well, I guess if there is an Amiga 1200 version of Wings, the graphics would be better to take advantage of the better graphics chips.
With over 200 missions to do, it does soak up the hours easily and keeps you entertained. By the end of it, you will be automatically ducking and diving with joystick in hand thinking you were fighting for your own life! Surround sound might even make it more realistic.
The music is good accordion playing but if you aren’t doing so well in the game, it could easily get on your nerves. Sound effects are nice and accurate enough. What could have made it slightly more interesting would be some action in the mess room perhaps or a bit of female company. Perhaps there just wasn’t time for any of this when becoming a pilot in World War One?
I give it a good nine out of ten marks for entertainment, graphics, sound and storyline. A quality game from a quality software company that is Cinemaware.
