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Sky Gamblers Storm Raiders Free Download Unfitgirl Flight simulators and air combat games can sometimes feel like an entirely separate universe. Take the feature list in Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders. While most games are saying “incredible Unreal graphics” – Atypical Games’ new release touts accurate atmospheric scattering, refractive raindrops, specular masks and volumetric clouds. What this means in human language is that there is immense, near absurd detail to every aspect of the flying experience and amazingly all of it is boiled down to a touchscreen interface. Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders sets your touchscreen flight action across the World War II theater of battle, from the European mainland to the attack on Pearl Harbor. You’ll be participating in dogfights and sorties with a huge number of teammates and foes. The HUD can get hectic with the sheer number of targets zipping through the sky. Doubly so if you elect to use the on-screen control method. Controls, sadly, were the greatest issue I had with Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders. Atypical Games did make a heroic effort to accommodate every imaginable need someone might face in a flight combat game on iOS. Five arrangements skew from full simulation, where pitch and yaw are controlled by gyroscope and accelerometer, to the above-mentioned casual on-screen control pad. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

Each changes the game dramatically in difficulty, but in my case the changes took the experience from “impossible” to “merely hard.” Despite trying each method, I found acing turns and trailing foes endlessly frustrating. I found myself fumbling more than fragging my opponents. With a few hours of gameplay I was able to manage dogfights better but I never felt quite like Maverick in Top Gun. The learning curve is intense, to say the least. Controls aside, Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders brings a veritable B-52 bomber full of gameplay modes to the table, including multiplayer (local or online), campaign, survival, capture the flag and (a lot) more. The robust collection is enough for anyone to find the mode that suits their flying style – my favorite being free flight, a casual jaunt around just to check out the compelling graphics and scenery. Of all the genres most cruelly under-represented in modern gaming, I feel it’s the humble air-combat sim that tops the list. What was once a regular showing during the 90’s and 00’s has since withered away in significance, and outside of a handful of current and last-gen Ace Combat games, there has been little else to fill the void – especially on Nintendo’s hybrid console. As a result of this drought, I couldn’t deny my intrigue once I learned of Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders 2’s presence in the Switch’s release calendar.

Huge historic Fleet

The mere mention of high octane dogfights and World War II aircraft are a sure fire way to get me interested (I may still be 12, need to check). What I failed to anticipate was the mobile heritage of the franchise that makes itself blisteringly apparent once you fire the game up. Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders 2 is a mobile game through and through. Now, this doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing – a couple of well executed free-to-play mobile conversions already exist on the eShop, but there are certain inherent design elements that must be reconsidered in order to appeal to either mobile or console players – UI being one of the most crucial. Sky Gambler’s UI has been barely altered in its transition from mobile to console, and at its best it’s an unpolished, poorly designed relic reminiscent of mid 90’s shareware games – at its worst, it’s borderline unusable thanks to the twitchy implementation of hardware controls used to get between sections. Thankfully you can at least easily navigate the menus using touch controls, as you would within the mobile version – even though the game never tells you that you can. Once you’re strapped into the cockpit, things get far more intuitive over the course of the games twelve mission campaign. From Pearl Harbor to the Western Front, a respectable amount of work has been put into differentiating the look and feel of each new location from the last, even if there is a slightly dated “mobile” feel to the overall presentation. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Hinokami Chronicles Switch NSP 

Cutscenes for instance, play out as simple camera cuts between planes with dry, single-sentence text boxes jutting into view from the top of the screen. Objectives have a tendency to shift unpredictability as events unravel, and there’s a decent variety of ground, air and sea targets for you to juggle your attention between which serves as a decent emulation of the high-stakes nature of real air combat. Although the game prominently features some of the most pivotal air and sea battles of World War II, you can forget about there being anything in the way of a compelling narrative beyond the already apparent historical significance of these events. Excluding the twelve campaign missions, which all come in around 10 to 15 minutes in length, there’s very little else on offer – you can set up a custom game with bots any of the included maps, or jump online for some multiplayer dogfights to unlock more planes – but that’s just about all there is to it. As far as the aerial combat itself goes, it’s serviceable but far from what any would consider a simulation. It’s got a light, arcade feel that – like much of the game – has a distinct made for mobile sense of feedback to it. There are three control schemes to choose from – two “simulation” presets that offer full control over pitch, roll and yaw, and one casual preset that uses tilt controls for aiming.

8 different play modes

I found that that the most engaging way to play Sky Gamblers was by opting for the default simulation preset and switching your view to the game’s cockpit camera, which is by far the standout feature for me.  The attention to detail and sense of place within the cockpit as you down a group of bombers, scrape through their descending wreckage and evade pursuing fighters can often times impress for a mobile game – but as a console experience, there’s perhaps not enough weight and polish to the entire endeavor. Sound for instance, is one area in which the game is let down immensely – the music sounds like it has been sourced from some royalty free MP3 hub of dubious quality, and the few sparse samples used for weapons and dialogue are relied on so heavily that they lend the game a cheaper feel than it necessarily deserves. There have been many times during my years of gaming, that I have owned a particular console that never really catered for my thirst of flight simulations. Yes, I know that the PC platform is the place to go to get my air-time, but I’ve always enjoyed the adrenaline-fuelled, seat-of-your-pants style of aerial combat, rather than your myriad of buttons and levers just to get your craft to taxi forward. It all stems from my days of playing the Commodore Amiga 500 and is always a genre that I also visit; hence my disappointment when it is a genre that isn’t always covered. Demon’s Souls Remake PS5

However, in the other hand, you can always have too much of a good thing, something that is increasingly happening on the Nintendo Switch with the expansive simulations of World War II aerial combat sims. Not that I’m ungrateful or anything, but a change would be nice. Saying that though, the latest of such games, Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders 2 brings more of the same, but refines things slightly to add more to my tally of flying hours. A sequel to Atypical Games’ previous title within the series, Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders, this second iteration sticks within the tried-and-tested formula of scenarios, options, game modes and content, yet also builds slightly on it, bringing with it a refinement that sees a bit more detail and polish to the skies over the war-torn world of the Second World War. Instead of following a narrative or plotting a course in story telling, Storm Raiders 2 puts you within the cockpit of a series of world-famous scenarios and setting from the forties. Battles such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and The Battle of Britain are represented in fine fashion, with an epic scale that almost replicates what the sights and sounds of the time might have felt like. Although it covers the same content matter as the first game, i.e. World War 2 aerial combat, each of the levels contains a bit more in terms of atmosphere.

Fully customizable controls

The level of detail on the ground almost looks like a photo-realistic reconnaissance of the true settings, but it’s the finer details that truly bring things to life. From the moment you take off from the runway at Pearl to the flying over the White Cliffs of Dover, you’ll be instantly greeted with an impressive array of anti-aircraft flak, a variety of weather conditions, radio chatter and a progressive detailing of damage that changes the look and feel of your chosen aircraft. It simply oozes with atmosphere and makes for a compelling series of sorties to undertake. As with the majority of Atypical Games’ series of war games, there are also a variety of camera views from the external chase plane view to sitting inside the cockpit. The game also looks more refined here, especially as you look around the confines of your cockpit, portraying an effective feeling of being cramped within the growling machinery of your flying war machine. Control-wise too, there are a myriad of options that will allow you to find your specific style from arcade handling to a more realistic approach that borders the realms of true simulation; bar the pressing of buttons and pulling of levers. In fact, I have to admit to the controls feeling a bit loose when I first took control of the flight-stick, but with some tinkering within the options menus, soon found a setting that felt very comfortable indeed and soon saw me diving through the flak to take out a series of U-boats with relative ease. The visuals are quite impressive Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Digital Deluxe

Whether it be aircraft models or the scenery around you and it is also perfectly matched with a fantastic audio quality too. The constant radio chatter or buzz of the passing enemy plane further add to the atmospherics. Saying that though, I did feel that the weapons felt and sounded a bit weak; breaking the immersion of everything else that is going on around you. Despite this though, the settings of the scenarios are very well done here, producing some exciting moments as you re-live key battles from the history of the time. Again though, saying that, I have also played some similar games that portray the same battles in a far more effective and realistic way, but then again, I’ve also played others that are far worse than what is on offer here. As well as the campaign, or series of sorties from famous historical battles, there’s also a wealth of other options to tinker around with. From the full customisation of some of the most iconic aircraft of the era to campaign-progression unlocks and a number of game modes that can be played solo or against other pilots online. There are a wealth of customisation options to give your aircraft a personalised paint job and look; especially handy if you’re looking to play online. There are also a number of options here too, with a series of game modes from Team Deathmatches to Capture the Flags and King’s of the Hills.

As has been the case when reviewing a number of games of this style, no lobbies were ever available for me to play through; something which still plagues other releases of this genre on the Switch. However, you can play any of these modes as a solo pilot against an army of bots which, although not the same as human counterparts, do provide an air of longevity and a good casual way of passing the time. In terms of content, there’s plenty here to do, from running through the campaign missions to the casual game of dogfights, plus the added incentives of unlocking new plane models and liveries, levelling up your pilot and trying out more advanced controls or gaining respect on the leaderboards. It gives the game a good life-span and makes it a worthy purchase if you’re looking for a flight combat sim that has legs, as well as wings. Whether you’re looking for a casual experience or a more prolonged spell of air-time, this game will have you well-covered; especially with its bite-sized, but epic, depictions of World War 2 aerial combat within some of the most iconic and prolific battles of the era. Overall, Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders 2 offers an exciting take on aerial combat. It follows from its predecessor with more refinement that adds sharper detail and a more atmospheric premise. Each of its scenarios and battles are nicely presented and run along a mechanic that feels epic, but never too overwhelming.

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