Review: Luftrausers (This Is My Joystick)

Luftrausers looks simplistic at first glance. The world isn’t three dimensional; you only act within two dimensions. Time has no meaning, only the score; the MAX combo. You fight to survive, survive to fight. You always emerge from a submarine, your airplane appearing to need no runway.

The aerial acrobatics you take part in can last as little as ten seconds or seemingly drag on forever as you desperately hang on to your MAX combo. Always gunning down enough enemies to keep the combo alive, but trying desperately to not be pulled into a fight with you versus thirteen of the enemy’s planes, several of their smaller ships and one of their battleships… or two if you’re really unlucky. –