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Though your crew may be completely competent at their jobs, they're also seemingly entirely incapable of making any decisions for themselves, as they're relying on you to tell them how to do everything. While it's perhaps not quite as unforgiving as you might imagine, Bomber Crew certainly throws a lot of plates at you to keep spinning, and gives you very little time in which to keep them turning. Already a smash hit on PC, Bomber Crew will be coming to PS4, Xbox One, and even Nintendo's Switch at some point during the coming months - and so we decided to have a bit of a closer look.Īnd yikes, can Bomber Crew get overwhelming. After hiring your crew (all with auto generated names, including some crackers like 'Dorothy Perkins'), it's then up to you to essentially micromanage your flight, from take off to landing, as you deal with everything from engine fires to enemy fighters, not to mention actually figuring out where to drop your bombs. Sitting somewhere on the 'not all that realistic' side of the simulation spectrum, Bomber Crew tasks you with commanding your very own spiffing new Lancaster.

A not well crewed Lancaster on the other hand. Just keep all this in mind before buying.A well crewed Lancaster is a deadly beast. Normal: it’s doable but you can’t stop feeling the game is against you in the RNG for the sake of hard instead of actually handing your ass to you and making you realize it was your fault all along and not the game’s. I’d compare it to maybe XCOM‘s (the most recent ones) Classic/Impossible difficulties vs. That being said, I can’t agree that the difficulty is balanced or it made me keep playing with the same fun I had originally. In the end, I have to say that this review ended up a bit too short and it may seem like the negatives outweigh the positives but in all fairness, if you wished for a harder version of Bomber Crew, this is exactly it: the content given is phenomenal, the details in the plane and levels and the campaign itself are pleasant to experience and see the fighting break out around you.

The crew is made by yourself as is tradition for Bomber Crew, the plane is absolutely gorgeous and a joy to maneuver around and inspect and the upgrades, while maybe a little bit too steep in their prices, are fun to fight for and break a bit of the game’s needlessly fast and illogical mission pacing. I say “mission design” because the rest is relatively well done. I think it’s this lack of pacing or cohesion in the enemy waves in this DLC that ultimately make it feel a bit rushed in the mission design. I can handle my hard games fairly well, even the unfair ones and I did the same with this one, but by the end, the fun factor wasn’t that big… at least not even half of the fun I had by the time I finished the original’s Operation Nemesis (and boy, did that push my crew to the limits).

Even the added hazards help assert this feel of realism to the whole environment you’ll be playing in. The bigger crew exists for this but it also helps remove the sense of role-playing in the management: you probably have to send more people to the gunning positions than you’d like to be relatively successful, which is unfortunate as this game is very deep in how you can role-play an actual bomber crew squad. It’s just making it harder by giving us more enemies rather than making you perfect your strategy and tactics. It’s not broken or anything but it hardly feels like there was thought put into it at all. Here it feels messy and almost infinite, for no reason. In the original, there was a decently appropriate rate of enemy spawns and what those enemies were. This all sounds great (and to be truthful, it is) but the game lacks direction from the first critical mission (and pretty much after that as well) about how it approaches its difficulty. The new enemies are a nice change of pace and the new campaign (yep, you heard me, a brand new, surprisingly long campaign was added!) make the game feel fresh at first. The plane has a substantial amount of gun-power, with seven machine guns that can be manned by one crew member each. The playable parts (crew and plane) and upgradable like the rest encountered in the main game. While the gameplay is itself the same, there are definitely some new items and content added here: you now use a really big bomber plane (The American B-17), a nine person-crew (that enhances the strategy the original already encouraged) and a couple of new enemy planes and ships. The levels look roughly the same, but they were never the focus as the game plays linearly throughout the levels. The core gameplay, UI, and aesthetics remain the same, so there’s nothing to talk about that already hasn’t already been mentioned.

Bomber crew review