Air Conflicts: Secret Wars Preview

Video shows off Air Conflicts: Secret Wars gameplay footage.

Kalypso Media has uploaded a video trailer for Air Conflicts: Secret Wars that shows off the first in-game footage of the World War-themed arcade flight sim. Check it out below.

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is an arcade flight simulation set in World War II. During the game’s seven campaigns you’ll fly and fight through 48 missions in a variety of vintage aircraft from both World Wars.

Missions have different objectives including patrolling, sneaking, hit & run, bombing and escorting. After certain missions you’ll be able to upgrade skills like maneuverability and endurance. Beside the campaign the game will also feature several local and online multiplayer modes for up to eight players.

After some missions the player can upgrade one of his skills in order to maneuver the airplanes easier, have more endurance or have your wingman boosted. Further, the player can choose between two control schemes. Arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft.

Beside the campaign the game also features several multiplayer modes, local and via internet for up to eight players.

Other key features include:

• Uniquely historical battles such as the siege of Tobruk, the battle of the Neretva Bridge, and Operation Belt in Poland
• Fight for the causes of key resistance movements such as the People’s Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, The Polish Armia Krajowa, and the French Maquis
• Action-packed gameplay delivers the excitement of serial combat in a manner accessible to everyone
• Over twenty different landscapes, each individually detailed with period precision
• Pilot more than 16 individual aircraft, in both World War One and World War Two settings

• Machine gun your enemies, dog fight, bomb ground targets and rocket ground troops and enemy vehicles
• 49 varied missions provide combat, stealth and exploratory gameplay
• The player controls his aircraft with either mouse and keyboard or gamepad
• The player can choose between two control schemes: Arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft

Erin Bell