Wings

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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
• Historical conflict: World War I
• Wings games

User Reviews

Dogfight sim with atmosphere	Amiga	EboMike (3135)
A simple but very effective WWI flight simulation	Amiga	Triggerhappy (3)

Critic Reviews

The One	Amiga	Oct, 1990	91 out of 100	91
Commodore i Amiga	Amiga	Mar, 1992	9 out of 10	90
Zero	Amiga	Nov, 1990	87 out of 100	87
Compute!	Amiga	Feb, 1991		84
Zzap!	Amiga	Nov, 1990	83 out of 100	83
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Amiga	Nov, 1990	825 out of 1000	82
IGN	Game Boy Advance	Feb 10, 2003	7.5 out of 10	75
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Sep, 1990	71 out of 100	71
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Amiga	Dec, 1991		70
64 Power / big.N / N Games	Game Boy Advance	Mar, 2005	70 out of 100	70

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Wings: Director's Cut funding failed	1	Yearman (23726) 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.)