Apache: Air Assault Demo Impressions
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. So, with that idea in mind I downloaded the demo for Apache: Air Assault on Xbox Live. I did not even finish the demo before quitting and deleting it. 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. I played the tutorial and found the controls were pretty strait forward. I was able to fly around fairly successfully. Unfortunately the flying also felt very slow. Like I was flying in first gear. 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. The size of the helicopter on the screen seems way to large for the size of units on the ground. It was like I was fighting toy cars. 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. I was not having fun so I quit and that was the end of that.
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