Air Attack HD - greetings from Dendy

As soon as I saw the Air Attack HD, bought without hesitation, because it reminded me of the game in which I selflessly I played as a child, when consoles Dendy ruled the world, but Steve Jobs has not yet returned to Apple. The main thing that has changed in the game over the years - is its adaptation to the touch-interface, and so she really won, who would have thought 15 years ago that TV with the prefix replaces something like iPad.

If you remember, what Dendy, you can not read any further, just go to the App Store and buy the game, and if you did not find this miracle of technology, then the review for you.

As you might guess from the name, Air Attack HD - is a simulator. You will be involved in the Second World War on the side of the United States and therefore to fight against Germany and Japan, which It will feature not only the technology of the time but different secret development, for example, flying saucers third Reich :)

The game is an adaptation of the same game for the iPhone, almost all the same, except that the graphics are processed to appear in the best light on the large iPad screen. But despite the almost complete identity, Air Attack on the iPad is revealed in a new light, as it became much easier to manage, well, at the expense of the screen has more room to maneuver.

In terms of management, it anyone can customize yourself, depending on your preference:
Touch - simply drag a plane on the screen with your finger;
Relative touch - drive across the screen anywhere, the aircraft follows the movement;
Tilt - turning iPad left / right - up / down;
Joypad - left corner there is a virtual joystick.

Personally, I really liked the first method, it is the most intuitive and allows for better uginatsya bullets and enemy missiles, but the He, too, there is a drawback - the appearance of additional weapons or capabilities is likely to accidentally pressing a button on their activation.

When the game starts, we immediately plunge headlong into an unequal battle with the Nazi troops that are attacking our lone aircraft from the air, land and water all means at hand. Here it is necessary, first, to kill the enemies as fast as possible, and secondly, full-dodging gunfire.

Among the weapons available initially normal gun, which shoots automatically always and bombs that run by double-clicking on a plane, but you can buy additional weapons with the times: the lightning and homing missiles.

That was for what to improve his plane or to buy a new weapon, you must collect coins that appear on the battlefield after the destruction of buildings and equipment of the enemy, the last to be destroyed with the help of bombs.

From time to time will appear checkpoints with shops, having flown in that, you can stock up.

The range includes: improvement of the main guns and bombs, missiles and additional automatic gun (shooting by themselves for a while) Allied planes flying to the sides, extra life, time dilation, lightning, shield and super missiles (the last four points are activated in game time with the help of special buttons, the number of uses is limited and can be replenished in the shop or by using bonuses during battle).

All in the game eight different levels, during which will have to fight in the mountains, in the desert and the sea. At the end of each level will be leaders, where the same without them. The ringleaders like to shoot from several weapons so that ugnutsya not always easy, but possible. As leaders can act different flying objects, buildings ...

... or ships.

My advice, save various advanced features such as time on the leaders, it is much easier life, perhaps even help to save it.

And finally, the very frisbee Third Reich, of which I spoke in the beginning.

In general, like the game, partly due to pleasant memories of childhood and endless hours spent for the console. But there is in it of course, and the benefits that will appreciate everything, for example, the attention to detail: the plane is not simply move around the screen and make different aerobatics such as dead loop or barrel, opponents are not only a rod in his forehead, but can suddenly appear from behind or from the side, back the second round, if not immediately killed, almost all of the objects on the ground, you can blow up, planes do not just explode, and lined with fall down, etc.

Of unpleasant moments worth mentioning except that the short-termism of the game, it is much too short, and not too difficult, especially on light levels. If not for that, it would have earned a solid top five, and half points had to be removed.