Whether it's the mission structure, the weapons, the environments or the aircraft, it's an incredibly well thought out game that rewards skill and persistence, is rarely frustrating, never boring and always sticks to the principle that games should be fun. Split into 15 missions, each with at least one related challenge mission, it's one of those rare games that holds your interest from start to finish with a pleasing degree of variety everywhere you look. Sure, we roll our eyes to the heavens once again but the warm stereotypes set the tone for a game that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Typically, the Brits all fit the jolly hockey sticks stiff upper lip mould and with a pip pip and chocks away it sells units to its intended audience. In slightly irritating, but necessarily predictable fashion, the game's RAF hero is an over confident all-American crack-pilot-to-be James Chase who fancies a slice of the action to show those damn stiff Limeys who's the daddy.

Coming some 12 years after the revered Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe, it's fair to say you'd have to be a veteran to be excited about the prospect of a belated sequel but you neither have to be an old hand nor even be remotely interested in flight combat to appreciate that this is a top drawer title that deserves to be anything but a best kept secret. But heavy artistic license, comical stereotyping and dubious historical accuracy can't disguise the fact that Secret Weapons Over Normandy is the most enjoyable flight combat game ever.īut we shouldn't have expected anything less - after all, the game comes from the legendary creative mind of Larry Holland and his Totally Games outfit, the team behind a long list of landmark Star Wars and WW2 aerial combat titles stretching back over 15 years. Evidently the Nazis were really rubbish at keeping mum during World War II if LucasArts' latest flight combat classic is anything to go by. Why bother with secrets? They always sneak out when you're least expecting them to, and the hoarders of the elusive information end up worse off than if they'd just blurted it out in the first place.

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