Wings (Amiga)

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Description

You are an allied fighter pilot in WW1, duking it out with the "Huns" up in the sky in over 200 missions.

The missions usually come in three flavors: Top-down view bombing missions where you have to take out strategically important targets, isometric strafing runs where you get to blast anything that you fancy blasting with an unlimited supply of ammo, and of course the main part: Dogfights in the sky. Rendered in 3D, seems from behind your head.

The game is set in the years 1916 through 1918, and to loosen things up a little, we get to read a page of our character's new entry for the diary-like journal in his company between every mission.

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Alternate Titles

• "Wings (Emulated Amiga Edition)" -- GOG title

Part of the Following Groups

• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Gameplay feature: Permadeath / permanent death
• Games with manual lookup copy protection
• Wings games

User Reviews

Dogfight sim with atmosphere	EboMike (3124)
A simple but very effective WWI flight simulation	Triggerhappy (3)

Critic Reviews

The One	Oct, 1990	91 out of 100	91
Commodore i Amiga	Mar, 1992	9 out of 10	90
Compute!	Feb, 1991		84
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	1990	83 out of 100	83
Zzap!	Nov, 1990	83 out of 100	83
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Nov, 1990	825 out of 1000	82
Power Play	Nov, 1990	75 out of 100	75
Amiga Joker	Sep, 1990	71 out of 100	71
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Dec, 1991		70
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Dec, 1990	Unscored	Unscored

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Wings: Director's Cut funding failed	1	Yearman (24909) Sep 12, 2012

Trivia

Awards

• Amiga Power
  • May 1991 (Issue #00) - #51 in the "All Time Top 100 Amiga Games"
• Computer Gaming World
  • November 1996 (15th Anniversary Issue) - #65 in the list "150 Best Games of All Time"

Related Web Sites

• Wings (Publisher's site (for GBA version) with game info screenshots and more.)