Whirlwind Over Vietnam - PC

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I just bought this title despite less than stellar reviews from every major player out there in gaming. I knew what to expect going into this in terms of it's repetitiveness and short mission profiles but how many other titles offer you the chance to fly a fully modeled Huey Hog in Vietnam? I figured I'd give it a try. I was terribly disappointed.The concept was brilliant. The weapons platforms are authentically modeled, uniforms, unit markings, and B /D model Huey's are amazingly rendered. Flight dynamics are difficult to master. The point is to make a flyable helicopter for a gamer yet they really went overboard on all the actual flight dynamics for rotary wing aircraft. There are enough principles of flight in this game to give you an absolute migraine. Helicopters by their very nature dont want to fly, unlike an airplane you literally have to fly them all the time but why make it impossible? Navigation is dead reckoning, line of sight just as it was before the days of VOR and GPS. Finding where to go is a task in itself if you get past Dynamic Rollover or Blade Stall.The developers actually included a mission editor so that you could create your own scenarios but they provide no instruction on how to edit this. Unless you look in the install folder you wont catch this gem. Even then it's fairly useless as there is no documentation. The file extensions from a Western perspective are nonstandard. Most developers here dont write .tex files. Skinning and modding are therefore nearly impossible to develop which is probably why no Western sites are devoted to it. This isn't surprising given the game was done by Eastern European developers. European programming standards are different as they prefer open-source over there. This is a shame as nearly every major Assault helicopter unit in Vietnam could have been skinned based off the gunships and Slicks in the game.My biggest gripe? I'd like to say the developers that brought IL2 and Silent Hunter III must have really shifted all their resources to their other delayed and anticipated title T34 vs Tiger, a WW2 tank sim because the team that did those amazing combat sims stopped short on this one. Not from a graphics perspective although to me the AI on the ground could be better rendered as well as more intelligent. As a release it is extremely thin in many ways.You need to have something of a beast of system to even run this game. It is terrible on load times and frame rates especially.I had hoped for something at least somewhat enjoyable but other than eye candy there is just nothing there. Save your money and get Microsoft FSX then download any of the freeware Hueys.

I can not comment on the game, as I have not had a chance to play it. There was not enough information provided as to what equipment you need to upload this game on the computer. The system that this game is for is XP, but it does not tell you that you can not run it on an integrated video card system, so the only thing that you can view is the menu and when you click the fly mode button the game shuts off. I think that all available information on these games should be posted for the viewer to be able to check there system before purchase.

The graphics are awesome but the helicopter flight model needs some work. Each axis steps in about 10% increments rather than linearly smooth like a real chopper. Also, the game does not support TrackIr but does have mouse look (it is just cumbersome having to re-center the view every time you look away). The realism is outstanding except for a few bugs in the program like AI helicopters sometimes sinking into the ground instead of lifting-off,etc. The soldiers are excellent for a flight sim as is the movement of the AI gunners and co-pilot.If you know how to convert your music files to WMA, you can add them to the games music menu. I added tunes from The Doors, Hendrix, and more from that era which gives the game more of that Vietnam movie feel.Finally, the game is probably not optimized for multi-core CPU systems. I have a dual-core (2x 1.6Ghz) and the performance slowed down a lot when I flew through smoke and dust. Other than that it played fine.With a patch to address these issues, this game could easily be a 5 Star helicopter flight sim. If you really like chopper games, it is still worth getting because its only around $30 new and there's only a few helicopter flight sims that are better.

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I could not wait to play this game!!I waited with exitement while the game dwnloaded,,and it downloaded with no problem,.ok,time to play!!! I clicked "playgame" on the option board and guess what! You could hear the game but it would not show up on the monitor,Ive tryed everything I know,what a bummer!

This game is a rip off. It is so bad it is unplayable. One star was too high a rating for it. I unfortunately bought it before there was a review on it anywhere, so there was no warning. If you don't believe me take a look at Gamespots review. I can't even believe Amazon would sell such a piece of trash.

Let me start by saying I really enjoyed IL-2 and thought what better people to make a Vietnam Helo game! I was stoked at the thought of flying hueys! I bought a Trackir in hopes that this game would support it like thier other titles but NOOOO!! I played Veitnam Med-Evac Search and Rescue and thought its flight model was good and it was very challenging but out dated. I played WoV about 1 hour and never played again! I can only hope that they come out with a patch to fix this lame game. You might as well watch a movie about flying a helicopter cause this is NOT GOOD! I ended up buying microsoft FSX and got my helo fix that way but it lacks the missions of Veitnam Med-Evac. Why couldn't they make a Veitnam helo game based on dustoff pilots? Having to land in on going battles and grab your wounded at get out would be much better than fly with 9 more choppers and be told exactly what to do! I thought gaming was moving away from the scripted game play but I guess I was wrong.