Game Review: WWII Aces for Wii

WWII Aces is the arcade style World War II shooter with plenty of air action in a huge variety of planes across 72 missions in three campaigns.

Ratings: Graphics & Audio: 15/25, Gameplay: 16/25, Creativity 15/25, Fun 16/25
Total: 62/100

Running headlong into the German front lines in your tiny airplane alone may not seem like the smart thing to do but in a World War II arcade shooter it often is just what happens. WWII Aces is the Wii game from Destineer and Arcade Moon that pits you against your enemies across three expansive campaigns.

You start off the challenge of the Wii controlled planes in one of three campaigns using a single fighter. Each campaign will get more difficult and involved but to start things off simply you have simple missions to go along with the simple controls and scheme of the game.

The entire game is arcade styled and I think too many people confuse the arcade flight simulation or shooter with a real flight sim. The arcade part means many of the flight characteristics will not be exactly realistic and often tend to either help or hurt the pilot in their attempt to complete missions.

I personally enjoy many of the arcade flight games that have come out and see nothing wrong in bringing the genre to the Wii console. WWII Aces does a decent job of immersing you into World War II and throwing some hefty and often impossible missions at you.

Each campaign will start off in a simple fighter and move on to other types of airplanes from that country; you have the German, Russian and British campaigns to get each perspective on the war. The missions do not really lend a sense of time to the war as they are often not very realistic or taken straight from the history books but give enough of a variety and difficulty to make any flyer want more.

WWII Aces

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