![]() ![]() It´s really enjoyable, easy to pick up, and intuitive. After inverting the Y axis, I was back in the 90´s playing on F-22 Raptor on my old 486-based Win 95 machine. Speaking of the gameplay: as I mentioned before, it´s an arcade game through and through. As I said, the game is really not short on content, and if you´re gripped by the gameplay, you´ll find a lot of stuff to do in Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders. There are also deathmatch modes, multiplayer modes, and a whole host of other stuff to do in the game. If you´re remotely familiar with WWII as a conflict, though, you´ll know where you stand straight away. What little story there is, is told through text boxes that sometimes pass by too quickly. It gets really repetitive really quickly, and if you add to that the fact that there´s no voice acting at all, you really might as well be listening to some Winston Churchill speeches while you´re fighting them on the beaches. The music, however, is one of the weakest points of the game: there are places in which the looping is so short, it feels like only two or three measures of music are being used. If you think you can outrun the Zeros, you’ve got another thing coming. The frame rate is quite steady, and the menus look crisp and legible (unlike, surprisingly, some other Switch titles in which the letters were muddled or too small to read). The presentation is very nice, with graphics in general, and aircraft model in particular, looking really, really good. But this is oriented toward an arcade experience overall, though, so you can´t knock too many points for that. All the fighters feel equally fast and nimble (though the Zeros in the Pearl Harbor campaign did away with me a few times). This is where the cracks start to appear, though: while there are planes aplenty, they all behave too much alike. There´s a ton of planes, too, from Stukas to Zeros to Mustangs, and heavy bombers like Flying Fortresses. There is no shortage of content here, though: there are three main single-player campaigns divided into the three main theaters of the conflict for air warfare: the Pacific, the US-Japan conflict (including Pearl Harbor), and the Battle of Britain. Sadly, a less-than-perfect execution leaves room for improvement. So Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders is really a combination, in theory, of everything that I like in a video game. I especially enjoy WWII games, and I love air fighting games, too.
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