Air Conflicts: Secret Wars

 PlayStation 3
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars Image
Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5 Ratings

Your Score
0 out of 10
Rate this:
  • 10
  • 9
  • 8
  • 7
  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0
  • 0
  • Summary: In Air Conflicts: Secret Wars players can relive the most famous battles of the First and Second World War right up close. The game provides plenty of variety, as players can fly 16 meticulously detailed and accurate aircraft in nearly 50 exciting missions in the seven campaigns. The missionIn Air Conflicts: Secret Wars players can relive the most famous battles of the First and Second World War right up close. The game provides plenty of variety, as players can fly 16 meticulously detailed and accurate aircraft in nearly 50 exciting missions in the seven campaigns. The mission tasks are diverse and range from air space clearance operations to the bombardment of targets on the ground, attacks on enemy convoys and reconnaissance, escort and patrol flights. After each successful mission players can upgrade their skills to enable them to control their aircraft more expertly, make their aircraft more robust and select better co-pilots. There are two control modes for the combat aircraft: the controls are simplified in arcade mode and simulation mode offers a realistic control system that is true to the original. Besides the solo campaigns, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars can also offer several multiplayer modes for up to eight players that can be played on a local network and over the Internet.… Expand
Buy Now
Buy on

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 3 out of 8
  1. XGN
    Jul 25, 2011
    65
    Developer Games Farm didn't deliver us a simulation like promised, but turned Secret Wars into a decent arcade shooter. The multiplayer can be very fun but the singleplayer drags down the score because of the bad voice acting and the simplified AI.
  2. Playstation: The Official Magazine (US)
    Oct 7, 2011
    60
    The budget price is nice, but all that's keeping Secret Wars from feeling like a PSN title are its decent length and online dogfighting options. [Nov 2011, p.87]
    All this publication's reviews
  3. Play UK
    Aug 9, 2011
    58
    A decidedly average experience. [Issue#208, p.94]
    All this publication's reviews
  4. GamingXP
    Jul 24, 2011
    55
    If you compare Air Conflicts-Secret Wars with a game like Blazing Angels it is questionable, if anyone will buy this game. Blazing Angels is better in every single manner. The graphics of Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is not up to date, the sound is mediocre, there is simply no story, the controls are way too simple for a flight game and the enemy AI is a joke.
  5. Gamekult
    Jul 29, 2011
    40
    Quotation forthcoming.
  6. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Aug 14, 2011
    40
    Little more than an unfortunate blip on the gaming radar. [Sept 2011, p.116]
    All this publication's reviews
  7. TotalPlayStation
    Dec 12, 2011
    40
    A few high points in the story don't make up for overly simplified and very repetitive gameplay. Any veteran of flight games will be bored senseless, and the plain look of the game will turn off casual players.

See all 8 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. ente2ente
    Jun 14, 2022
    9
    One of my favorite action air sim games ever, especially of because of the 3D (stereoscopic), the action gameplay, the engaging story and theOne of my favorite action air sim games ever, especially of because of the 3D (stereoscopic), the action gameplay, the engaging story and the big change in the missions.
    I don't care that the story is told by voices and non-moving comic pictures: I got more stuck to it than the standard animated hero stories, because the change and development of the non-heroic heroine and her friends makes me more identify and feels more realistic how war has been to those who got caught up in it. And the missions and even airplanes are so different from one another that it is a joy. The biggest pity is the pretty short story and the pretty unpractical cockpit views which lead you to fly either from behind the plane or cockpitless front view.    … Expand
  2. oldgamer81
    Jul 8, 2022
    8
    A very decent arcade style flight sim. Mostly nice graphics, also when the ground looks a bit bland, beautiful aircraft models, a lot ofA very decent arcade style flight sim. Mostly nice graphics, also when the ground looks a bit bland, beautiful aircraft models, a lot of different air craft to fly and different mission types. I like the story a lot, because it is not that typical usa-patriot-hero-war-lover but a story of a protagonist, who doesn't care about the war and at first just wants to earn money, but gets dragged into the war and lives through it's horrors and contradictions and she even somehow changes sides thought the storyline. Maybe the English voice acting is bad, but the German one is not at all, it's pretty good in fact.… Expand
  4. KeanosMagicHat
    Oct 9, 2012
    8
    Why hasn't this game been better received? I've only just discovered it as a free demo on the PlayStation Network and the mutiplayerWhy hasn't this game been better received? I've only just discovered it as a free demo on the PlayStation Network and the mutiplayer dogfights are excellent fun.

    You can play either with strangers or set up a password proteted game with friends. Yes the menu graphics are poor and the voice acting is laughable but, to my mind, it's the gameplay that counts and this is good old school arcade fun. For those that prefer more of a challenge on the controls there is a "simulation" setting with separate stick control for pitch and roll & button rudder control for yaw.

    Everyone I've introduced this to loves the mutiplayer and we've had some good competitive battles. Ignore the critics and try it for yourself - you may like it !!!    … Expand
  5. subodai
    Mar 25, 2013
    4
    I stopped playing this game after 23 missions out of 50. I kept telling myself: hey, this game will get better, it will stop being boring andI stopped playing this game after 23 missions out of 50. I kept telling myself: hey, this game will get better, it will stop being boring and annoying! Well...., It did not. It's that bad and I'll tell you why.
    First: the story is very weak and keeps telling you about the good old days of air combat in WWI. Not that this is necessarily annoying but it is when talked about in the middle of an air fight! Furthermore, the voices are not my cup of tea either. Everyone seems to have a need for a heavy Scottish, Russian or French accent. The lead character has a whining heavy french accent and complains just about anything you can think of. Second: the game play is very repetitive. If you have a mission where you have to fight a wave of enemy fighter planes or a battery of AA, the game throws in another wave or battery and another and another which is boring. Now, for my biggest complaint about the game: there are a LOT of missions that you have to complete within a certain time limit. Sometimes this can be very interesting or suspenseful in some games. For example when it helps the story. Or where there is a timer for another good reason. In this game, such good reasons are absent. In 90% of the timer based missions, there is no need for it and it is only annoying and irrelevant.
    Avoid this game. I wish i had done that before.    … Expand