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Wings Over Vietnam |  | From: Bold Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $6.90
as of 9/3/2010 17:31 CDT details
You Save: $23.09 (77%)
New (13) Used (4) from $3.95
Seller: NYC Electronics
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 4175
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 10207
Model: 10207
UPC: 828068102074
EAN: 0828068102074
ASIN: B0006AAOIM
Release Date: October 20, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Simulation gameplay of air combat during Vietnam War | | • | Accurate planes, weapons, flight models, and enemy AI | | • | Experience historical missions and air-to-ground missions | | • | Fly as a U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, or U.S. Navy pilot | | • | Single and multiplayer gameplay from novice to experienced |
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Product Description
The era is Vietnam - and you rule the skies!Product InformationWingsOver Vietnam recreates the intense air combat experience in the skies over NorthVietnam at the height of the air campaign during the Vietnam War. Fly in historical missions from the Rolling Thunder campaign of 1965-1968 tothe hard-hitting blows of the 1972 Linebacker II operations. Fly your waythrough North Vietnamese air defenses during the Christmas B-52 bombingcampaign the air battle the brought North Vietnam to the edge of defeat.Wings Over Vietnam contains some of the most heart-pounding authentic missionsavailable in a flight simulator. Novice or experienced sim pilots can test theirmarksmanship on historical power plants bridges airbases and naval facilitiesof the Viet Cong. Those who live long enough will win decorations awards andpromotions with each successful mission. These are just a few of the thrillsyou’ll experience as a U.S. Air Force Marine or Navy pilot.Product Features Fully scalable single and multiplayer gameplay from novice to experienced sim pilot. Perform naval or marine air combat missions from “Yankee Station” launching off either Kitty Hawk or Essex Class (Modernized) aircraft carriers. Take off from Air Force bases in Thailand to engage North Vietnamese MiGs during MIGCAP operations. Lead successful air-to-ground missions targeting power plants bridges airbases and naval facilities. Take part in “Wild Weasel” missions against the massive North Vietnamese SAM defenses! Go “Downtown” as you perform missions into the heart of the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and its fearsome air defense network! Fly a full combat campaign of sequential missions as a U.S. Air Force U.S. Marine Corps or U.S. Navy pilot. Win decorations awards and promotions with each successful mission. Accurate planes weapons flight models and enemy AI. From th
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 27
 disappointment August 17, 2010
J. Madison (Southern Oregon Coast)
Game wouldn't run after being loaded. No instructions or literature with the disk. Simply a beat up labeled box with a piece of folded cardboard inside enclosing the disk. A REAL BUST AS I WANTED THIS GAME TO BE SIMILAR TO COMBAT SIMULATOR. CHEAP PRICE SO NO INDUCEMENT TO RETURN MINUS HANDLING CHARGES
 The Best Vietnam Combat Flight sim ever made April 24, 2010
Glenn Miller (Ca,USA)
Great game. Packed with planes,missions,campagins,selectable loadouts and being open sourse it is modable...Ie you can add aircraft and other objects to the game.
 Good place to start for Jet carrier ops April 15, 2010
Christopher L. Kuzen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Previous reviewers have done a fair job of describing the basics of the game, but i'm amazed that not a lot of words have been written about the naval aviation aspect of this game.
For anyone that is looking to move on from "Pacific Fighters" into jet-powered naval operations, this is the game for you. Also, anyone looking to "spice-up" their naval ops experience from LoMAC, Jane's or FSX deck-pack, this is it.
The traditional problem with jet naval aviation sims is that they're either extremely difficult like Jane's F/A-18, with a fully workable 3d cockpit wich keeps you heads-down half the flight, or are jokes like LoMAC because the narrow and stale gameplay besides the fact that the autopilot will trap the bird for you.
WoV is the 1st game that combines fully customizable difficulty settings which offer a decent learning curve. I'm not sure what difficulty setting the reviewer that rated trapping as easy had selected (full realism is NOT the default setting,) but I do not find it trivial. At the very least a sim pilot who is transitioning from prop carrier ops to jet carrier ops will have to learn how to trap all over again. The angled deck and the flight characteristics of jet aircraft demands retraining.
The angled deck puts a stop to wake riding, like in Pacific Fighters, and the fact that in a trapping jet you control you speed with the joystic (AoA) and your rate of descent with the throttle (quite oposite than prop jobs) will provide the fledgling jet naval aviator with a good platform to transition in.
As far as combat goes, you have to actually hit ground targets, without a Continuosly Computing Impact Point indicator (CCIP) to destroy them. This greatly helps those coming in from WWII sims like the IL-2 series. Pilots that have been dropping dumb bombs with dumb sights already, but it can wash-out the CCIP crowd from LoMAC & Falcon4.
As far as ACM goes, go vertical or go down. I don't know who said that you can "F-16 it" but I'd go look at the enemy AI skill setting there. Trust me, at the higher settings you'll run into some real "honchos" out there that think nothing of getting into a vertical rolling scissors with you. And while yes, many arcraft burst into flames whis a gun squirt, many others rain junk into your intakes and keep fighting.
As far as not being scary enough, I'd suggest going downtown in an F-4B in the weather with a full load of bombs. The lack of a radar warning receiver, and the sudden appearance of SAMs at 10,2 & 6 o'clock breaking out of the cloud deck below cannot fail to quicken the pulse.
The only real gripe that I have with this title is that the specialized on-board nav gear to find the boat is not modeled, the recovery waypoint is too far out from the actual position of the boat, and the deck never lights. All of this turns your Rolling Thunder campaigns into an exercise in "finding the boat" in weather and darkness. This is only a real problem in aircraft that don't have a ground radar mode, as that is more than enough to get you back to the boat in any conditions.
 Not just a shooter February 10, 2010
Jean M. Matheny (Ramsey, MN United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Takes some getting used to. It does need clearer and far more detailed explanation of how to use the features, however.
Very good game that could be made better. September 10, 2008
aviationitemsandmore
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Has very good graphics and a very good variety of aircraft to fly.
However, it needs an invincible flying mode option where you can not get
killed. A reconnaissance photo taking aircraft and mode would be cool and
different. The ability to fly enemy aircraft such as the MiG-17, MiG-19,
and MiG-21 and more U.S. aircraft would be awesome. The additional U.S.
aircraft could be: A-1 Skyraider, A-3 Skywarrior, RA-5C Vigilante,
TF-9J Cougar, OV-10 Bronco, F-104 Starfighter, RF-101C Voodoo, F-5
Freedom Fighter, A-37 Dragonfly, B-57 Canberra, F-111 Aardvark, T-28
Trojan, O-1 Bird Dog, O-2 Skymaster, AC-47 Spooky, AC-130 Spectre, OV-1
Mohawk. There is a need for a Korean War air war flight simulator game,
Desert Storm FS game, and a Vietnam helicopter FS game.
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