Heroes Over Europe - SP gameplay "Eye of the Storm"

[Blixer7]

My understanding about this game without a cockpit view is the result of the game being formated for arcade play. The AI warbirds are too numerouse to combat from cockpit view. You must utilize 3rd person to see a wider view of the surrounding sky and then plan how to attack so many targets.

[kirby2171]

not the best game but i enjoyed it. yea this level gave me a hard time but i like hard levels. the ace still was quite annoying tho

[hotdogs4all]

I guess they just do whatever they want with history nowadays right?

[jarentz]

@MrConsumerWhore1 Wings of Prey is much better and good fun but the best flight sim of them all is Rise of Flight.

I think HoE is actually so difficult and silly in an arcade game style way I just gave up on it.

[53moreHP]

Wow. A guy doesn't want to play this game because it's not realistic? Probably bitches about tic tac toe because it's too hard.

[jarentz]

@53moreHP The arcade style of this game actually makes it more difficult than some real flight simulators.

The planes fly nothing remotely close to realistic and the arcade style objectives that involve time limits and so on are extremely difficult to get through. There's no cockpit view and flying 3rd person is actually harder than 1st person. Wings of Prey is a much better WWII arcade/sim flying game.

[53moreHP]

@jarentz READ 1st. I could argue on some points but I know HOE is not an easy game. On Ace I can breeze through most missions with no trouble. OTOH, Eye of the Storm and Black Heart I have yet to beat on Ace.

I downloaded the demo of Wings of Prey and I am befuddled with the massive amounts of controls. I have 10 keyboard keys for HOE. You say it's arcade/sim but what's 'arcade' mean? I thought it meant controls were simplified to a small number of keys.

[jarentz]

@53moreHP (part 1) I call WoP an "arcade" / "sim" because that's what it is, if that makes sense. It's an arcade style flying game with sim-like features, meaning a cockpit view and a fairly realistic flight model. But it's "arcade" level of difficulty setting is very game like and is not good practice for moving up to "realistic"

[jarentz]

@53moreHP (part 2) Yes WoP has a "simulator" mode but in my opinion the structure of the game is still arcade style. The biggest reason is that the missions start in the air and don't involve taking off and landing which any true simulator has to include. WoP is great fun though and I would highly recommend it.

[53moreHP]

@jarentz READ 2nd. If you could explain the difference or how the controls can be simplified I can download WOP for $6 off Yuplay. HOE is starting to get old and I really like these arcade (HoTP included) flying games. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do have a Thrustmaster flight stick but I don't use it for HOE.

[jarentz]

@53moreHP WoP does have an "arcade" difficulty setting where the flying is simplified and there is a 3rd person view, in fact with those settings it's almost like HOE. There is also "custom" difficulty where you can pick and choose the setting, I found that to be the best.

[zuzulo56]

@53moreHP I see by your adroit comments, that you are quite knowledgeable re. "Heroes Over Europe", what? What's the secret (trick) in getting through the flak in this, Eye..Storm, episode? Thanks, Pal!

[53moreHP]

@zuzulo56 Getting through the flak in Eye of the Storm: bank hard right or left and fly in circles until the flak quits. I do that just before the cut scene.

[zuzulo56]

@53moreHP 10-4...and THANKS!

[GuilhermeSimoesUlhoa]

blaze angels or heroes over europe??

[zoidberg1339]

HORRIBLE level. From the flak section that's impossible to get past unless you fly 100 feet off the ground to the part where you defend 2 damaged B17s from a dozen Focke-Wulfs with virtually no help. In a real life scenario the Focke-Wulfs would eat the 2 B17s and 2 fighters alive with a loss or 2 at most. Piss poor level design at it's worst. This level made me never want to play this game again.

[nerbwalk3r]

can u make a part 2 please!

[jarentz]

@WWII33 It's a good WWII arcade style game. It's not a flight-sim, for example there's no cockpit view or complex controls.

On the down side the missions are very difficult, even on the "rookie" setting and the game doesn't save it's checkpoints.  It can be rather an ordeal to get through since you have to complete an entire mission for the game to save.