Oltman at El33tonline writes:
"Helicopter simulators are not nearly as common as they should be. I remember the good old days of playing LHX on DOS and Apache Longbow 2, the first one being a very basic helicopter game with crude graphics (but still immensely playable), and the second one being a hardcore simulator, but scalable enough to be enjoyed by all...
... So it was with great anticipation that I started playing Apache Air Assault - from the trailers it seemed to have inherited a legacy from these previous great games. The game looks beautiful and realistic, and rather than being a jack-of-all-trades it focuses on one particular aircraft to master, so I knew it would be accurate in its flight system. What I did not count on was the PS3’s control system being a pain in backside."
RotorStorm is an unity 3d awesome war game where you are playing with a helicopter and you are alone against an entire army. Your mission is to destroy as many enemies as you can and complete all 6 challenging missions.
Mediocre games are notoriously hard to critique. We’re hardwired for hyperbole: it’s easy to write thousands of words effortlessly praising the finer points of a blockbuster title, and a poor game is even easier. But when a game is neither, things get a bit more difficult: the game may not have glaring flaws, but it may lack any number of effervescent qualities that see it rise to the top.
Apache Air Assault is such a game, one that tempts this reviewer to trade in terrible clichés in an attempt to explain to the reader that this title might appeal to niche enthusiasts.
MMGN: Apache: Air Assault is best if you master the controls and experience both single and online multiplayer. It’s realistic enough for most pros, but more casual players will struggle to master the flight controls, even on the training difficulty, while the fun is to be had on realistic. That leaves it as a fairly niche title for combat flight sim fans.
Pretty cool game. Just ordered it off eBay for PlayStation 3. Pretty excited.