Air Conflicts: Secret Wars

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Air Conflicts: Secret Wars
Air Conflicts Secret Wars box art.jpg
Box art of European PC version
Developer(s) Games Farm
Publisher(s)
bitComposer
  • PlayStation 4
    • PAL: 2tainment
    • NA: U&I Entertainment
    Nintendo Switch
Platform(s)
Release
30 June 2011
  • Windows
    Xbox 360
    • EU: 8 July 2011 [2]
    • AU: 4 August 2011 [4]
    • NA: 28 September 2011 (X360) [3]
    • NA: 8 November 2011 (PS3) [5]
    PlayStation 4
    • PAL: 4 November 2016
    • NA: 4 April 2017 [6]
    Nintendo Switch
    • EU: 22 March 2019
    • NA: 26 March 2019 [7]
Genre(s) Combat flight simulation
Mode(s) Single-player

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is an arcade combat flight simulator video game set in World War I and II. [8] It was developed by Slovak studio Games Farm and published by bitComposer Games. It was released on 30 September 2011. It is a sequel to the original 2006 Air Conflicts . It was ported to the Nintendo Switch in March 2019 as part of a collection with Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers . [9]

Contents

Plot

The player controls a female pilot named Dorothy Derbec, nicknamed DeeDee, who is trying to solve the death of her father, Guillaume Derbec. Alongside with her friends Tommy Carter and Clive, the players progress through the game. From Tobruk to Russia to the Balkans and finally to Berlin, Tommy and Clive both die while progressing. In the Berlin campaign, she finds out that one friend killed her father in WW1 because her father couldn't stand watching bombers drop chemical gas on a village. While progressing, the player unlocks airplanes, ranging from classics such as the Spitfire to experimental planes like the Horten Ho 229.

Reception

The Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Windows versions of the game both received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregator Metacritic. [12] [11] [10]

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