Blazing Angels® Squadrons of WWII Steam Charts & Stats

Blazing Angels is one of those turn-and-burn WW2 games from almost a decade ago. As a result, its design philosophy doesn't fit with the market in 2015. Add to that frustrating level design, uneven level of difficulty, and basically a lazy PC port, the result is an also-ran that you should avoide for more modern attempts at the same genre, such as Flying Tigers or Dogfight 1942. Blazing Angels postulated a special squadron called Blazing Angels that's composed of you, a mechanic-pilot, a good defender, and a good attacker, that is always where the action was in World War Two, no matter which theater of operations. You start in Dunkirk, Europe helping the Brits evacuate Europe, then fight Battle of Britain, then to Africa and joined the Brits go up against Rommel, then jump to Pearl Harbor to fight off the Japanese, then to Midway, and Guadalcanal and Rabaul, then it's back to Europe to finish the war. Being launched in 2006 means the game does not support the latest input devices, but when Xbox 360 controller was released in 2005, the game's support for it was barely tolerable. While it supports all the extra buttons, the default control scheme is... sorely lacking in utility, with the RIGHT stick controlling flight. Remapping is possible but not fully supported, and there are way too many functions to map, including gear toggle. Despite HUD turned on there doesn't seem to be any speed and stall gauges available for landing, which you are required to do many times, including on a carrier, and if you overun the runway, you die. In fact, the only landing I did on the carrier, I actually ran into a parked plane and was lucky I didn't explode. There is no lead computing gunsight... You are expected to lead the shots yourself, nor is there a range finder. So you're pretty much shoot at enemy until they die, until you figure out how big the enemy "caret" outlining the craft is before you can hit it. If your craft has a rear gun the rear gunner will engage automatically, but don't expect it to really make kills quickly. The bombs / rockets regenerate after certain amount of time has passed. Right now I'm stuck at the Rabaul mission, which seems to be where a lot of people rage quit the game, as the previous missions are either easy enough or really challenging. Now the folks ran into a level that's f***ing impossible. Checking forums showed that retrying 50-100 times is not unusual and even the players didn't quite realize how they accomplish the misison objectives. Besides the machine guns, your craft may be equipped rockets (8 shots), bombs (up to 6 depending on the craft), torpedoes (1) , or even a photographic camera. And they all have their uses (torpedoes and bombs against ships, bombs and rockets against buildings and vehicles. It is not unusual to kill 30-50 planes per mission. Your performance after each mission is given a rating depending on number of kills, amoung of time taken, and so on. It makes for tremendous effort to be ace, and even then it requires a lot of luck. Graphics were state of the art back then. Now it's a bit outdated, but support for hi-res monitors are good. Sounds are... horrible, with "Japanese" pilots taunting American pilots in horrible Chinglish accent. At least the German accent sounds tolerable. All in all, I don't recommend this game with uneven difficulty level that can't be won even with cheats active. (Others spoke of trying 50-60 times). The game's outdated, with lousy control support, and is just no "fun" to play.

if you want this game and you have a console buy it for console. reasons why is it doesnt work well with mouse. so you'll have to rebind the keys to make the game playable if you dont have a controller. no aircraft selection for missions like the console version. becuase in the ps3 version i had i remember being able to play diffenert aircraft for many of the missions. and in the PC version several missions i remember on the console version are not in the game. and from what people are saying they cant play it on their computer that runs windows8 but it works for me. so if you have a computer that runs windows 8 it might not work for you.

NOT recommended, the stupid auto-correct roll defeats the purpose of playing an action-oriented flight sim. This uneditable and unremovable feature automatically levels the plane as soon as it stops getting input from the mouse. Meaning if you roll left to turn, as soon as you stop rolling the game auto-levels you, requiring stupid amounts of yaw to turn instead (like a noob). Try another flight sim and dont waste your money

It did not work in Windows 8, but after upgrading to Windows 10, I decided to test and had a great surprise: it worked! Anyone who has played, take time to again enjoy this fun game! Those who have not played, has a new chance to try it. Não funcionou no Windows 8, mas após fazer o upgrade para o Windows 10, resolvi testar e tive uma ótima surpresa: funcionou! Quem já jogou, aproveite para curtir novamente este divertido game! Quem ainda não jogou, tem uma nova chance de experimentá-lo.

Overall a decent game. I had to do alot of playing around in the Steam controller configuration to get the controls right. I have them set pretty closely to the Ace Combat control scheme. tip with the config as well, set your sticks to act like D-pads and change your roll and turn features around to get a simulation style control if you dont want an arcade style. the voice acting is terrible but hey you can always turn it off. the only other complaint i have is the difficulty leveling can kinda be random. one min your dominating the skies the next your a brand new pilot that just learned how to fly. But again decent WW2 Flight sim. also ive seen alot of complaints about the game not starting at all. my computer is old and im working off of an Intel Celeron N2840. i had to switch the properties over to windows XP service pack 3. runs like a dream. no patch needed.

I have followed the instructions for re-mapping controls for my joystick yet when I go into the game and look at my joystick config, within the games it shows the default joystick settings and not what I mapped.

DON'T BUY THIS GAME ON STEAM IF YOU DON'T HAVE Windows® XP!!!! It doesn't work with anything else. even if it downloads, you won't be able to play it unless you have Windows® XP. Unless valve UPDATES THE GAMES TO WORK ON WINDOWS 7 it's best to BUY THE PC VERSION FROM A LOCAL STORE.

As much as i played BA:2 and enjoyed it when i was a kid, I haven't touched this one until now. Since i got it on Steam a few years ago the game had a lot of glitches and crashed during the training mission so i just gave up. Later i found out it doesn't even work on win10 so I didn't bother trying. Now after some trial and error and multiple instances of game running in system processes I've decided to give it another go and it works. After all that hastle what came of it was a wonky old game with non-existent UI, a tutorial that even in text explains what to do using a controler... while im on a keyboard. If you've ever played a flight game, whether arcade or sim this is just awful. The controls are so bad i am at a loss for words. Even after some changes i did it is still bad. When locking on an enemy target the plane automatically moves in a way towards it, even if you pressed nothing. No target locators (they are sometimes there but barely visible) so you have to use that lock on from time to time which is annoying. No health bar, no overheat on weapons, nothing. There are almost 0 UI elements.... The graphics are poor and there is a lot of empty space, while maps are really small making it even worse. The story is so bad i laughed a lot. Even germans know you are american while you are in an RAF Hurricane with RAF markings. They also talk in english. The chatter is annoying as hell. Everyone talks and keeps reminding you that you are being shot at, your objectives and what they are doing and the germans are making fun of you or crying to each other... all in the same volume and intensity. You have no peace whatsoever. This is like a saturday-morning cartoon kind of story and game. Made for little kids to feel like they are in some action movie that doesn't have any moment of peace or any semblence of logic. They tried to capture on the audience of the plane-arcade games but failed to do anything right. The flying is bad, missions are dull and the story is awful. Don't bother losing time and money getting this game.

***** Huge mistake on my part. I didn't read the OS requirements this game ONLY WORKS WITH XP it will download and open with other versions but it will not play well at all.***** Aside from that this is my opinion of the game. This was one of the first games I played on the Xbox 360 when it first came out and to this day it is still my favorite flying games. I can't seem to find another flying game that has the same controlls as this. With "arcade" controls you have your throtle on the left stick up and down and your pitch and roll on your right and that is the style I am most comfortable with. Other games have the controlls switched around to where I have to readjust myself to them which I really don't like to do. The game itself is awesome, the campaign isn't short and has it's challenges. You have the option of Ace dog fights to unlock Ace paint patterns for your planes as well as an online dog fight mode where you go head to head with other players as well as a split screen dog fight mode. I really can't express how much I love this game.

Ah blazing angles hell of a time i had with this game back when it came out, and still today now that i got it on steam, yeah yeah alot of people down there are complaining about not being able to run the game, well thats what they get for not doing research and manualy finding out that you CAN play this game on windows 7( so far i cant tell if on windows 8), and for those who don't want to go out and figure it out here is how you do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First: put the "SettingsAplication.exe" on compatibility mode to run on windows 98/me. Second: you'll have to put steam on compatibility mode as windows XP SP2, but there will be a message on your screen complaing about you using it on compatibility mode, just click the second option and you're done, steam starts normaly. Third: start the game, set it up, and if you are lucky enough like me you get this damn thing running. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But now back to the game. The game features decent graphics, althought there is some noticible problems wich are model related, such as the MAIN ENGINE IS NOT SPINNING JUST THE PROP, and they can be kinda of a pain to get used to, another one is on the LODs, when you get at a certain distance from a plane it's supposed to lower it's model quality (in another words it will be less detailed), but they made a mistake with that, because you can see the prop just sitting there not spinning, and the 1024x1024 textures that is a so called feature is another problem, because they dont fit the hole model so they just mirror it and you can see a line on the top of the plane when you are on the ground. But enough graphics for now, let's talk gameplay, well moving your plane is rather simple with the keyboard arrows and i absolutely love it, other people complain as its anoying and not good because it auto turns for you and becomes unrealistic, but in case you forgot this game is a arcade flight game, you see there is arcade writen on it, it's not supposed to be realistic, althought there is some things that brake reality there but i can forgive that, well there is a way just use those A and D keys and that should be covered up, unless you are in a joystick and there is nothing you can do about that other than use the keyboard, and thats why i love it so much, it feels good to fly with the it, no game i played so far felt so good, and i played alot of flight games (without counting the sims, because well they are sims you need the joystick). The story is as bad as a plot from the new battlefield games, you just won't give a crap. Sound design in this game is Ok not the best one i've seen, it uses the same plane sound for all of them except the jets, although i can't say the soundtrack is bad, it's great but it can get REALLY REPETITIVE, and let's not talk about the dialog in this game, it's lazy and repetitive as hell, you will loose count of how many times they will say the SAME DAMN THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN, and that's not just for the outside plot part, even in-plot they dare to use same clips from other missions, but at least Frank can be funny at moments with his lines, sometimes, just sometimes. Oh yeah i forgot to mention the stand-alone mode wich you can play out side the main campaing, it's fun but can feel like a turkey shooting sometimes, and music there is repetitive because it's pretty much almost the same for all of them, and there is a mini-campaing that you can unlock by completing the game (good luck doing that), but it's just the same as the arcade mode but with more time and more targets and a varitaion with bomber + 2 fighter escort. Overall Blazing angels has alot of flaws that can ruin its experience at times and can be easily forgotten by some people, it's a game that i might enjoy but its repetitive, the game gets a easy 6/10, it's Ok only problem is that it has too many issues that can kill the gameplay. PS: yeah the review can have some repetive parts but i just wrote so people that come past this see that they can get it running on a modern OS, they just have to follow the steps said on the top of the review. And also some guides have problems by being incomplete the steps up there are simple and they are sure to work, i did those and it worked.