games only follow the second World War or possibly Vietnam. Really, World War I has

kind of been relegated to the mists of history. Unless of course you're talking about the

air war! And that is seen.... kind of seldomly in games. Now, the game we're looking at today

does follow the air war of the Great War. The game is Wings 2: Aces High, releases for

the SNES by Namco. It is an arcade style flight sim.

Now graphically, the game looks really, really good. The airplanes are all quite detailed,

and it actually controls fairly well although you'll find it to be somewhat stiff. Really,

you've better be happy that you've got infinite ammo because accurate aiming is all but impossible.

Really, you're just gonna have to point your plane at the enemy and just let fly. Now the

game also mixes it up a bit when it comes to the missions. Sometimes you'll be going

on fighter sweeps to shoot down enemy fighters, but other times you'll be going on bombing

runs to take out factories, and then sometimes you'll have to go on a mission to shoot at

a tank or a truck. These are very... very... difficult. These are some of the most annoying

in the game because you fly so fast and you can't see very far which means the truck will

appear in about two seconds and you have to have the bloody reflexes of a Force user to

shoot the bloody thing.

The game also has a rather novel pilot upgrade system, although I'm not really sure how it

works. You have these sliders and you can give your pilot better skills and mechanics

and shooting and things of that nature, but when you actually play the game it doesn't

really feel that much different.

The game also has a fairly unique lives system as well. It's legitimate "lives". Whenever

your pilot dies he's actually dead and you lose a real life, thus making the game somewhat

dark in a way. You really don't want to lose a mission because that means your pilot's

dead. He's buried. He's gone. That's pretty intense for a SNES game.

Overall, Wings 2: Aces High is a decently made flight sim. It doesn't have any real

deficiencies when it comes to graphics, or music, or gameplay, and manages to be a fairly

memorable game from the SNES era, one that I do indeed recommend picking up. And so,

this is Jon, signing off.