What you do need to do yourself is very little in fact, and aside from telling the pilot when to take-off and land, which direction to head in, and when to raise and lower the landing gear, the rest is all down to him. When you get into the action, as a ‘sim’, you will find that you don’t directly control matters out in the field, for all you can do is order your crew to action specific jobs before sitting back, crossing your fingers and praying to the gods that they’ll come out on top. Do you really need that extra med kit when you already have a highly armoured tailgunner, or is it better to squeeze in another ammo cache so he can get on with his job instead? It’s questions like this which will be constantly floating around your head in Bomber Crew. That’s just the start of the micromanaging too because even though it’s nice to spend your earned cash from completed missions on toughening up your members, there is also the need to weigh up the pros and cons behind dropping various bits and bobs, armour plating, better guns and the like on your plane. There is a strange level of addiction included though, and Bomber Crew is certainly one of those games in which you will find the minutes and hours flying by, even if it is just because you’re trying to decide upon the best flight suits, headgear, armoured vests, glove types or boots that your team will be kitted out in. Yes, there is the option to pause matters should you so wish, and when you zoom the camera into the cockpit of the plane in order to command your crew, time does slow down to give a little breathing space, but there is so much going on at once, that Bomber Crew all becomes a little too hectic for it to be considered as proper ‘fun’. See, getting your head around a control system which has been looped over from the PC world isn’t the biggest issue – because if I’m honest, a few missions in and you quickly find your way around the intricacies of the game pad – but ensuring that each of your crew members has a job to do at all times, whilst in the heat of a dogfight, whilst navigating to new lands, whilst trying to bomb a sub before it disappears under the waves, and whilst taking intel photos, is all a bit too much. And it will, eventually, but initially the darn difficulty curve that Bomber Crew comes with will see you needing to shed more than a single tear as you stare at the memorials of downed men, before trying to place their smiley little faces to the back of your mind as you go about the job once more. It is here where you’ll find yourself rinsing and repeating those initial recruitment actions in the hope that the next mission you send them on will be all the better. See, Bomber Crew isn’t a walk in the park. And it also won’t be long before you find that same plane, and those same seven guys, crash landing in the middle of the ocean after a fight with a few bogeys has gone horrendously wrong.
Tasked with keeping seven little men safe and sound is a task in itself, and after recruiting the likes of a pilot, navigator, mechanic and ace gunners to your team, it isn’t long before you’ll see them taxiing down the runway and heading on out for the battle which lies ahead.
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