Manager: On-board 7671, you will sit or go to the second round?
Pilot: Yes.
Dispatcher: "Yes what?
Pilot: Yes, sir!
We fell. It happened 15 years ago - I found myself in a rather difficult situation. After a chain of a variety of circumstances that are unrelated to this review and therefore will not be described, I was sitting in the pilot's seat Tu-154, performing an emergency descent. Clutching the steering wheel, I tried to look into a sea of flashing arrows and feverishly revolving devices. The only man who could still save the situation, was the second pilot, who, by virtue of the same circumstances as the wheel does not touch, and only gave me directions. Through the fog below me the lights of the runway - a runway. Manager husky sleepy voice "gave the green light for landing. When approaching the second round, I refused the left engine. "Reverse" - muttered the pilot. Shift. "Artificial horizon" - a lazy squeezed it out yourself ... shaking hands line the roll plane, buried in the instrument. In turn jammed flaps, stabilizer broke off, the chassis was not made. "Earth" - throws me a brief pilot, convenient parking in the chair. Puzzled look at him. In order not to repeat itself, he points to the indicator "Beware, O earth!" been a minute flashing before me. With horror, I see at high speed approaching the band ... So I broke the plane. Yes, before I managed TU flopped with all his might on the ground, the cockpit flight simulator rushed infuriated chief academic department with a scream, "expelled", however, found in a chair upset failure teenager got there an acquaintance, stopped short. Sure of laughter that followed after that was heard throughout the building, aviation technical colleges. Since then much has changed. Perform various tricks on civilian aircraft, clap them on the runway and ram the skyscrapers you can now, without making his way secretly to the gym. Numerous simulations with varying degrees of reliability can be practiced flying on different sides - both military and civilian, and to do so for some time now and can be on the display device. Gamers of this genre are familiar Leo's Flight Simulator and a whole series of diverse letalok-shooter series of 3D Mini OmniG Software. Today we present the civil aviation, or rather, the story of the complicated fate of the pilots of charter flights - Flight of the game SmartMobile Games.
Plot
The brand new biplane Chenoe. He stands on the runway, wings glinting in the sun. Your first step to a million. Unlike most simulators, Flight in front of you has a specific purpose - performing various tasks to earn as much money. Without them, the game will not manage. Racket about in the sky for a long time do not have to - sooner or later, the fuel will not fly on that during the next mind-blowing tricks your heart stops beating machine. But pilots laborors will be rewarded - having accumulated the required amount, they will be able to buy more aircraft, thereby increasing speed and throughput. Trains do not go by sea, even in this strange part of the world (the symptoms of the Bermuda Triangle will be described below), and the ships too slowly ply the waves, so that the order you will not be shortchanged. By the way, floating means of transport also have an ugly habit of often enough to sink, so that participation in rescue operations (fly to the point of collapse and lose a life raft) is a constant source of income. In addition to the noble "chip-and-deylovskih" missions you are willing to pay for the delivery of cargo and the flight on the specified route. In addition, cash prizes will be awarded a variety of aerobatic maneuvers, for example, loop ($ 100), as well as passage through the ring (around $ 250) and a successful landing. And finally, you have the rich "speculative" arsenal: purchase a variety of goods on one island cheaply and sell at another more expensive.
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| Chenoe biplane on the runway |
Interface
The screen orientation in Flight - horizontal, in the Options menu is provided for left turn to 180 degrees. In the same menu you can adjust the sound (Audio Options, the volume level for music and sound effects) and the quality of graphics (Graphics Low / Med / High). The main game interface changes depending on the display mode. You can select a view from the cockpit, the view from the tail of the aircraft, as well as film mode in which the flight is shown from different angles. Regime change when you repeatedly press on the camera icon in the toolbar. You can also choose the output to display the navigation map (the icon on the right after the camera). At the same time on the game interface is superimposed semitransparent map with the coordinates of the aircraft, distance remaining to destination, and line the route, so that we can simultaneously keep track of their location and fly a plane. On the map (the next icon in the toolbar row) can change the scale that allows you to track the position of the aircraft relative to the entire chain of islands. And finally, the last icon in the toolbar is a window services of the airport, where you can select a new airplane (a bookmark with a picture of a biplane), refuel and refine the parameters of their aircraft (a bookmark with a wrench), select the task (tab with notes) and do business (tab with the image of the safe). Airport Services are available only on the ground, to change job in the air, no manager would not allow, as an air tanker better to forget. Therefore, the focus and spend a full range of necessary actions on the ground.
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| The main game interface |
For the instrument readings can be monitored from both the cabin and in the "outer mode" - in the latter case, they are shown on the left side of the screen. There are other small number of devices, which greatly facilitates the task to the great annoyance of fans of realistic flight. On the dashboard unpretentious aircraft are speed indicator, altimeter and fuel gauge. In more modern aircraft are added to the artificial horizon and a couple of minor in Flight instruments. Altimeter in the game I enjoyed the most: it is very important when flying at low altitude and landing. On his scale, the two arrows. Long, thin arrow shows hundreds of meters, and short - a thousand. The optimum height of flight - 4-5.000, low maneuvering may not be less than 500 m. In the same conditions, helps speed indicator. Artificial horizon - moving the ball with an image of the sky (blue) and earth (brown), separated by a horizon line, shows the aircraft roll and a major role in the game has not.
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| Game Consoles Cessna aircraft and the present |
Well, here's a short briefing was over. Take off.
Gameplay
The game has two modes - Arcade and Simulation. Unfortunately, the difference between them could not comprehend. The game itself is quite fascinating. Despite the sometimes quite long flights between the islands, it does not seem like a dull and boring. Always interested in trying something new on the road. Wrap, say, loop the loop with a cargo of nitroglycerine on board. Agree, too "extreme" - as is common now to call. Still, even in the event of a fall or an explosion, you will again be on the same runway - very similar to the circumstances of the movie "Groundhog Day".
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| Map |
The game starts on airport runway Tamopiya. The first step - filling. In the Services window, select the airport with a wrench and click on the Refuel. In the same window for each aircraft during the game will be offered a set of engineering modifications, such as improving the aerodynamic properties and the volume of fuel tanks. For the first Chenoe recommended to use the whole list, it will save you from a purely economical flight "without wind."
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| Airport Services: purchase of aircraft and those. Service |
Step Two - choose a job (the button with the bill). Deliver package - deliver the goods at the destination, then fly to a designated airport in the job (often simply return to the airport to send). Search and rescue, - following the planned course, we find a tanker steaming and pressing the reset of the rubber raft. Survey flight - there is all the more harder to find on a map all the rings and fly through them. Step Three. Earn and save up. You are waiting for the new board - the faster, more powerful, with larger capacity. As you accumulate money you will open more opportunities - in a window air show (the button with the airplane) the number of models will increase.
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| Airport Services: jobs and commerce |
There is also a possibility of earning through sale note only that you need a big capital - must buy various goods and refer to the price level at each airport. Cheap? Buy. Expensive? Sell, the rich ... And do not forget to save the game, but then you never know what ... Insurance is not provided.
Graphics and sound
As for sound, and on schedule Flight inferior Leo's Flight Simulator and games OmniG Software. Graphics less detailed, but the cabin design I like - it is more realistic and the design of devices made in strict accordance with the real. During the game you will be accompanied by the sound of "vrrr" engine "chrrr" landing (which is quite funny sounds when falling into water) and "bang" crash (sound, I just became a mother). I wish only the first two.
Field tests
I've tried everything - from ramming planes flying by, to various acrobatic stunts and reconstruction of the tragic events of September 11. Have to disappoint fans of realistic disaster - nothing spectacular in this sense is not expected. Firstly, to ram the plane you just do not succeed, you simply through it drop. By the way, in pursuit of the ugly sides of the desire to face, I noticed a rather unusual item, which led me to conjecture about the geography of the game. Planes in the game ... lost. Yes, yes, dissolve into the air. Here you chase him with obscene and aggressive to the collision, and he rrraz - and disappeared. A typical Bermuda Triangle.
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| Aviaekvilibristika |
The only effect of the collapse of a smoke, regardless of whether you have crashed on land or fell into the sea.But "slammed" on the building, plane crashes spectacularly down, releasing a cloud of smoke that shows you from different angles. In addition, above a certain level will not be able to fly, is bounded above the speed limit. In the end, we did not break the plane came here. Nevertheless, the developers have provided a set of realistic surprises. A couple of times in an attempt to make the noose I've overdone, and the engine stopped functioning (!), In addition, at low speeds and windy conditions you will find a "bumpiness" and align the airplane will sometimes not so simple.
Passage
First - do not forget to refuel aircraft at each airport, or the fall is inevitable. And now about other ways of earning. Let's start with the rings. More likely you'll find them on Tamopii, the island the very first airport in the game. Taking off outside the airport, turn right and fly as close as possible to the ground. Yellow flashing rings are very close, but the developers have cleverly placed them in the valley, so I have a lot of practice before you can fly through them. They are arranged one after the other, so that the right got into this "tunnel" could be earning more than $ 1000. Three more rings are located on the east of the ravine. Here, they also placed a rather tricky: two over the bridge and the one below it. And finally, the last couple of rings on the island - the south-east of the airport, between two buildings.
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| Prize ring: the bottom of the looming $ 1000 |
Takeoff must be dispersed. Rather unusual evidence of the readiness for take-off aircraft is lowering its nose. Fly comfortably in the rear-view camera mode, which is visible to leverage the speed and scale of all the devices, which at the sight of the cabin obscured by the steering wheel. Mode is also useful in low flight: the shadows, appearing on earth, it is easy to control the height. Recommended to lower the speed while moving through the ring and landing. Please note that the route line only connects the three airports of origin and destination and are by no means a designated course. Most often, when landing you need to change direction and bend around the airport to leave the runway. During landing speed reset to the last division, keep horizontal plane, sit in the center of the band and immediately after landing, turn off the engine (speed lever to the zero mark). Your customers will appreciate the respect for their shipment and will pay you for it down to $ 300 (Great landing bonus).
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| Coveted "Albatross" |
How to spend? .. With an increase in your capital, the list of aircraft that can be purchased, is expanding. An accomplishment in the game is loading "Albatross" for $ 20,000. But what speed! .. Note that it is better to swoop need money for a small biplane and just buy a big plane. Gradual shift in the game does not work very well: with a certain time in a stream of orders is beginning to wane. But where we did not disappear - we have one loop wrap us that we need!
Summary
Fly on the contract. This is something new. We are looking for, save, execute, maneuvering, make emergency reduction, deliver the goods, we get the money kopim, buy new planes - it's fun! Despite the fact that the graphics are not very detailed, and sounds do not have the proper variety, play it interesting. More than once I was convinced that the realistic graphics are not the most important thing in the game, although it is very desirable. SmartMobileGames bad bother creating a game that is different from commercially available handheld gaming. Novelty factor is so rare in this industry, is unquestionably one of the main advantages of the game. Mastering the geography of the game and getting to know the location of bonus rings, you feel the experienced pilot, so that the job type "to fly to Cape Senkler and return to the airport about.Tamopiya "no longer forced to consult the map. It's nice that the main developer of the game, Tom Cooper, continually modify and improve it, so that, enjoying the charter flight (a sense of the impossible in the real world), we also look forward to new opportunities, new adventures , new means of livelihood and new customers.
Acknowledgments
Thank studio SmartMobile Games for contributing to review the commercial version of the game.
Links
Flight for Pocket PC and Symbian UIQ All games studio SmartMobile Games in the "Program for PDA" on HPC.ru. The authors, translation: