Year: 2009
Genre: Aviation simulator
Developer: Gaijin Entertainment
Publisher: Gaijin Entertainment
System requirements for maximum rendering quality recommended by the gameGPU website:
The minimum
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 1.63 GHz
RAM: 1,5 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MBRAM Radeon HD 3690 or GeForce GT 220
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 7 GB free space
Effective
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2,2 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MBRAM Radeon HD 4670 or GS GeForce 8800
Winchester: 7 GB free space
Optimal
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MBRAM Radeon HD 4770 or GeForce GTS 250
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 7 GB free space
Official description of the game
The Winged Predators project will feature more than fifty diverse missions based on large-scale operations during World War II. Sitting at the helm of a fighter, bomber or attack aircraft, the player will become a participant in the most famous battles in the skies over Eastern and Western Europe, including the battles for Berlin, Britain and Sicily, the Battle of Stalingrad and Korsun-Shevchenko.
Thanks to a modern graphics engine, the new game will demonstrate an unprecedented level of visualization, a realistic flight model and a damage system. Hundreds of detailed aircraft will take part in the grandiose air battles, including Soviet ILs, aircraft and Yaks, British Spitfires, American Mustangs and Thunderbolts, German Messerschmitts, Focke Wulfs, Junkers.
The project provides several modes of different difficulty levels – from arcade to serious simulator – which will allow the player to choose the most suitable one for himself. Multiplayer will offer four modes with the possibility of up to thirty-two people participating in the battle. In addition, the game supports various gamepads and joysticks, as well as headsets for voice chat.
“Winged Predators” features incredible graphics and a breathtaking level of realism. The behavior of the aircraft is reproduced with maximum accuracy, and a detailed damage system will allow you to display the most epic battle in the sky that you can imagine. Are you ready for uncompromising air battles? Then fasten your seat belts and pull your helmet tight on your head, because you are about to experience one of the most realistic aviation simulators ever available on PC!
Features:
– Hundreds of air and ground equipment take part in the battles. From the cockpit of your plane you will see the full scale of World War II, where the front line blossoming with explosions will unfold before you in full view;
– Take part in more than 50 missions in the skies over Western and Eastern Europe;
– Find yourself at the helm of a wide variety of combat vehicles, including Soviet Ilyas, La and Yaks, British Spitfires, American Mustangs and ThunderBolts, German Messerschmitts, Focke-Wulfs, Junkers and others;
– From a simplified mode for beginners to a serious simulator;
– Detailed damage system and the most realistic flight model;
– Four collective modes with up to 32 people;
– Support for all possible game controllers, including 6-DOF TrackIR, TripleHead2GO, as well as headsets for voice chat in network mode;
– Support for downloadable add-ons through the yuPlay service: new aircraft and missions;
– Inimitable music from sheet music master Jeremy Soule, who worked on projects such as The Elder Scrolls, Unreal II and Baldur’s Gate.
Review: Playability
After the third truckers, it seemed that trust in domestic developers was lost for us, if not forever, then for a very long time. To be honest, Winged Predators really surprised us: the game has a very good atmosphere, which very vividly conveys the spirit of the Second World War.
The realism of the ongoing air battles is mesmerizing and even simple flights over the terrain bring a lot of pleasure. The gameplay alternates with newsreels of the Second World War, and negotiations between pilots add life to this game.
In general, the project from a gaming point of view could reach a massive gaming audience, but it has more of a simulation focus than an arcade one. Many users will be unhappy with this factor, but what can you do, the game was originally aimed at an advanced audience. The developers, of course, tried to introduce a semblance of arcade controls into the game, but still, few will enjoy the controls.
Next, we invite you to evaluate the gameplay directly in the game video and hope that this will help you somewhat understand the essence of the gameplay.
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Winged Predators are a good product of domestic developers and players should try this project with their own hands, especially since the demo version can be tried for free.
Review: Game Graphics
The graphics don’t have enough stars out of the blue, but you can’t call them sherpost in any case; the game has a very nice environment and detail. Everything is done very stylishly and beautifully. Many of our compatriots need to learn from someone.
The physics of destruction and behavior of air vehicles is quite decent and deserves all praise. It is very satisfying to see the destruction of an enemy airliner into separate parts under continuous fire from the onboard guns. Explosions are simply magnificent and make you lose sight of the events happening around you and focus on them.
Of course, the landscape itself is not ideal and, when viewed very closely, does not look very good, to put it mildly. But what can we do, our technology has not yet reached the level of high-quality display of all the details of all the surrounding world that is comfortable for the eye?
Review: Resource-intensive game
To play Winged Predators you will not need much by today’s standards – a dual-core Core 2 Duo 2,2 GHz processor and 2 gigabytes of RAM.
All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality by the Fraps program in the most resource-intensive part of the game.
We tested video cards from the lower price segment at a resolution of 1024×768, video cards from the middle price range were tested at a resolution of 1280×1024, and video cards from the upper price range were tested at a resolution of 1680×1050.
Testing at maximum Low End quality settings at 1024×768 resolution
In the lower segment we see a more or less acceptable picture, which has not been so rosy for this type of video card for a long time.
Testing at maximum quality settings Midle End at 1280×1024 resolution
At the average level, almost all participants are able to compete with a low frame rate. Let’s remove the details a little and everything will go quite comfortably.
Testing at maximum High End quality settings at 1680×1050 resolution
It can be seen that the game is well optimized and will run on most modern gaming machines. We can safely say that the developers’ optimization was quite successful.
Conclusion: Winged Predators will find their fans not only among fans of simulators, but also among some arcade players. The picture quality and performance of video cards are quite acceptable.
