Dustoff Heli Rescue
“I need a Dustoff!” became an all-too-familiar call on the airwaves of jungle wars. Now take off with your rescue helicopter and search and save the life of the wounded soldiers in the field, often under fire. If you can’t, nobody else can!
Find the stolen cargo with your Chinook helicopter and transport them safely to the nearby friendly base, all the while fighting off hostile tanks and other enemy combatants.
Save hostages being held in Prisoner of War camps. They are desperately waiting for the remarkable sound of the evac helicopters. You are their last hope so save them all!
Flying Dustoffs take courage on your part as a helicopter pilot, as ground fire is the rule rather than the exception. The rewards, however, are great.
MAIN FEATURES
– Up to 25 unique missions
– 3 rescue helicopters, each with different handling and transport characteristics
– 3 weapons with different capabilities
– Various missions like: cargo transportation, saving hostages and stopping enemy convoys
– Various daytime and weather conditions like stormy heavy rains and beautiful sunset over the jungles
– Numerous war scenes including jungles, swamps, hidden cave and mine systems and a lot more
– Real time shadows and lighting
– Epic action music and cinematic sound effects
– Dog tag collection
– Localization up to 10 languages like: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Brazilian-Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Japanese
– Option to control your helicopters in Amateur and Pro mode
– Manual and automatic aiming
– Full game-pad support
100% kid and family safe game, no-one gets killed, enemy soldiers always run away.
Steam User 16
8.8/10 – Pixel Graphics Taken to the Next Level!
I always enjoy some good pixel graphics; but this game showed me you can do more with it than I imagined! The gameplay is fluid and action based. You control helicopters moving into the warzone to pick up wounded soldiers, equipment and ammunitions over 25 progressively challenging levels.
There are 4 different helicopters to unlock; the last being that sexy Chinook! Each time you upgrade your helicopter your capacity, armor and guns get better but your overall control greatly diminishes. The music and graphics are both well done and exceeded my expectations; I didn't realize the level of shadows and lighting detail that could be achieved with something like this. I dig it.
It's worth the $4; but definitely grab on sale if this sounds like your thing!
Accidently Reviewed
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Steam User 12
So far I'm enjoying this. Old school Choplifter in a Minecraft setting. Simple aim is to fly helicopter, with very limited controls, and rescue troops and vehicles from enemy territory. You may need to shoot and/or avoid enemies at times as well. Charming with cool physics.
The controls are what will make you love or hate this game. Much like the old Lunar Lander/Thrust/Oids type games, you can only control left thrust, right thrust or both at the same time which makes you feel like you are trying to balance on a bowling ball. I enjoy the challenge, reminds me somewhat of the old Desert Combat Apache controls. But when it gets windy, it becomes extremely challenging to control, especially if you have the controls set to the professional option.
I nice diversion from all the modern popular 3d shooters everywhere, and a game that requires a bit of hand eye coordination.
Steam User 8
Dustoff Heli Rescue has you flying through a war zone trying to save your troops and your equipment. At times you'll need to rescue a certain number of troops somewhere on the map and other times pick up and bring home your equipment such as vehicles. The maps are 3D, retro block style graphics. The graphics actually aren't bad and are handled well in this game. The flight patterns are only up and down vertically and left and right horizontally. There is no real 3D space to fly around in. Some people have complained about the handling of the helicopter. While it's true the controls are very simple and can't be changed, the controls are very simple to get used to and allow you full control of the helicopter at all times. This doesn't mean that the game isn't tricky when controlling your helicopter through tank ammunition, rockets and caves. The difficulty level increases as you progress through your 25 missions, but I never found the game too frustrating or overly difficult at all. Easy 100% achievement if you're into that kind of stuff. Definitely a fun game to play and definitely would recommend it for the right price, $2.50 or less.
Steam User 13
It's okay. Very simple gameplay, with a little more challenge if you use the advanced controls where your heli can actually tip over, but this thing looks and plays like a mobile port.
Fun for a little while but I won't be spending hours on this.
Steam User 6
Suprisingly this was fun. The controller support for a 360 controller felt better than the keyboard. The minecraft look/ arcade style is what got me mostly hook from this. KEEP IT UP
Steam User 16
This is a fabulous little game (4.5 out of 5), reminding me of a mix of Choplifter, Fort Apocalypse and a little Desert Strike, with bright colors and a nice 2.5D voxel-look. This game is among my current top favorites. It allows for a quick round or two-three trying to complete a map/mission, so is quite inviting for casual play. The controls need a little getting used to, but once you've finished one or two maps they do feel natural and add to the feel of the game (I'm using gamepad controls).
Basically there are two "styles" of play, sometimes mixed in one mission: what I would call "normal flight" where one rescues soldier or brings in equipment while bringing down or avoiding enemy fire, and "fort apocalypse" mode where one navigates the heli through cavernous parts. There are in total 25 maps/missions for now. My favorites are the ones that require a little planning on taking down the enemy in the right order to be able to survive the mission. I care a little less for the "fort apocalypse" parts because I like flying that chopper, not inching forward (although once more practised, one can fly through caves with higher speed).
Completionists can try to finish every mission for silver or gold medals, and collect up to five extra items per mission that give rise to soldier dog tags. I feel the game is fun enough to attempt this.
The game has a cool intro screen by the way, with the heli blades spinning in slomo. Bottom line: recommended!
Steam User 8
★★★☆☆
I've to say that I bought this game for 60 cents, so it's hard to complain about, especially considering I spent 9 hours with it.
Having said that, this game is just OK. The main issue is the level design(s). Most levels are meant to be finished within 3-4 minutes, some maybe even in 1 minute. With only 25 levels, that doesn't sound like a lot a content. Obviously, it does require multiple attempts to get a gold medal for some levels, but the length is still questionable. The lack of content becomes even more visible when you notice some levels are repeated. You have to fly through the same cave atleast 6 times, and that is excluding attempts to get a gold medal. It becomes tedious fairly quickly in overall because the whole premiss of the game is to retrieve an objective and bring it back to base. With a maximum of 8 places in your chopper (less with the starter choppers), this means you'll have to fly back and forth many times.
It isn't a very challenging game, despite the inconsistent controls (especially in the caves, where your movement might even jump up in speed randomly). It's a simplistic, little game, with little customization that suffers from poor game/level design. Worth a look when on sale, and best played in small, 10 minute sessions.
PS: this game does NOT have full controller support. You still need a keyboard to activate menu selections and to pause/exit the game. In fact, you can only bind the 2 commands (going left oand right) to the triggers or face buttons of the controller.