Red Wings: American Aces

If you played the first game, this sequel is almost the same. [u][url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199101512747/recommended/1140630/] So go read my review of that.[/url][/u] Flight feels exactly the same, most of the enemies are exactly the same, and the co-op mode is still an important part of the achievements. By now you should have the skills to fly through the single campaign path in a few hours, and sadly that's basically the whole game right there. Missing from this sequel is the Survival map option, and instead they have team battles and score battles; the goal in them is to get the highest score in a limited time, or get a specific score faster than your rival. You can choose from a nice variety of backgrounds for the battles and whether the combos will count. There's also options to play online battles, but good luck finding someone. As for what they added, there's a few interesting changes. One new enemy plane spews toxic gas if you follow them, though they seem very susceptible to roll takedowns. There's two new weather elements, with clouds getting electrified to make them a less reliable escape from danger, and a giant water spout that deals some damage which can be avoided with unlocks. My favorite new addition is a new kind of campaign mission, in which your guns are out of ammo so you have to smash through the swarms of enemy planes. That's just flexing on them! Some of the planes are different and new since they only have one side of the war, but they did that annoying thing where some of the best looking skins are locked behind DLC. Beyond wishing there was more game here even though I got it cheap, my final complaint is the wildly silly “American” voice actor in the campaign breaks. Providing slightly more of a cast of named characters for the story and some personality to the main narrator is good, but that voice doesn't match the art and made me dislike the comic book story sections. So why recommend a game with so many complaints? One reason really: for all it's pluses and minuses compared to the previous game, the end result kind of balances out. I recommended the first with major caveats, and I feel the same about this one. It's a fun arcade flight shooter, and probably great if you can find another decent pilot to team up against the co-op modes.