{"id":982,"date":"2010-11-05T23:26:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2011-01-12T21:34:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T04:34:32","slug":"apache-air-assault-demo-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/apache-air-assault-demo-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Apache: Air Assault Demo Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I generally don’t play many flying games but the idea of a co-op helicopter game seems like it could be fun. One person flying and another manning the guns.\u00a0 So, with that idea in mind I downloaded the demo for Apache: Air Assault on Xbox Live.\u00a0 I did not even finish the demo before quitting and deleting it.\u00a0 The controls were my concern before playing the demos since trying to fly in Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s helicopters has always ended with crashes for me.\u00a0 I played the tutorial and found the controls were pretty strait forward.\u00a0 I was able to fly around fairly successfully.\u00a0 Unfortunately the flying also felt very slow. Like I was flying in first gear.\u00a0 Even when I pushed both sticks forward which was suppose to be fast it did not feel that way. I was also really disappointed with the look of the game as I was flying.\u00a0 The size of the helicopter on the screen seems way to large for the size of units on the ground.\u00a0 It was like I was fighting toy cars.\u00a0 Maybe there are ways to adjust things to deal with both of these but I just did not care enough to try and figure it out.\u00a0 I was not having fun so I quit and that was the end of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I generally don’t play many flying games but the idea of a co-op helicopter game seems like it could be fun. One person flying and another manning the guns.\u00a0 So, with that idea in mind I downloaded the demo for Apache: Air Assault on Xbox Live.\u00a0 I did not even finish the demo before quitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[176,97,7,5],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-apache-air-assault","tag-demo","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}