Red Wings: American Aces
Red Wings: American Aces puts you in the pilot’s seat of a nostalgic, action-packed arcade shooter illustrated in a fun comic-book style with a gaming mode for every occasion—local or online, solo or multiplayer. Prove yourself in exciting aerial battles and make a name for your squad as the best aces of WWI!
A Multiplayer Must-play
Do you believe in the strength of the squadron? Choose a map and game mode and gather your pilots to play in a team of up to five players against other squads in online multiplayer. Prefer flying solo and plucking others out of the sky? There’s game modes for that too! Compete with up to nine other pilots and fly to the top of the scoreboard. Local co-op is available for smaller fighter groups of one or two pilots for a much more ace-to-ace experience in various customizable game modes, including a campaign mode with 30 missions.
Rise to the Challenge
The clouds hide many dangers, there’s more than just enemy pilots waiting up there! Thunderstorms will blast your skill cooldowns, while sandstorms can make visibility spiral to near zero. To make things even more interesting, you’ll encounter other challenges such as missions where you’ll only be able to take out enemies with barrel rolls, planes that release a gas that will block your view when you least expect it, and more!
Become an Ace of the Sky
Rack up skill points for completed missions to upgrade your pilot progression skill tree and add to your arsenal. Strategize and rearrange your points depending on the mission and ensure you emerge from every dogfight victorious.
Key Features:
- Fly online—Test your skills against a max of 9 other players in Last Man Standing, Score Battle, or Time Battle modes or gather your squad of up to 5 pilots and battle other squads in Elimination, Time Team Battle, or Score Team Battle modes
- Fly locally—Play custom games in 3 different modes (Score Battle, Time Battle, and Hide n’ Seek (2 players only)) solo against AI or against another player
- Complete 30 missions in campaign mode—relive the aerial dogfights of WWI and encounter all manner of unexpected challenges (available in local co-op for 1-2 players)
- Upgrade your pilot progression skill tree—develop your pilot skills and rearrange points depending on the mission at hand
- Pilot 15 different warplanes, each with unique skins—stand out in the heat of battle with a plane your enemies won’t soon forget
Game Discussion
Steam User 0
If you played the first game, this sequel is almost the same. So go read my review of that.
Flight feels exactly the same, most of the enemies are exactly the same, and the co-op mode is still an important part of the achievements. By now you should have the skills to fly through the single campaign path in a few hours, and sadly that's basically the whole game right there.
Missing from this sequel is the Survival map option, and instead they have team battles and score battles; the goal in them is to get the highest score in a limited time, or get a specific score faster than your rival. You can choose from a nice variety of backgrounds for the battles and whether the combos will count. There's also options to play online battles, but good luck finding someone.
As for what they added, there's a few interesting changes. One new enemy plane spews toxic gas if you follow them, though they seem very susceptible to roll takedowns. There's two new weather elements, with clouds getting electrified to make them a less reliable escape from danger, and a giant water spout that deals some damage which can be avoided with unlocks.
My favorite new addition is a new kind of campaign mission, in which your guns are out of ammo so you have to smash through the swarms of enemy planes. That's just flexing on them!
Some of the planes are different and new since they only have one side of the war, but they did that annoying thing where some of the best looking skins are locked behind DLC.
Beyond wishing there was more game here even though I got it cheap, my final complaint is the wildly silly “American” voice actor in the campaign breaks. Providing slightly more of a cast of named characters for the story and some personality to the main narrator is good, but that voice doesn't match the art and made me dislike the comic book story sections.
So why recommend a game with so many complaints? One reason really: for all it's pluses and minuses compared to the previous game, the end result kind of balances out. I recommended the first with major caveats, and I feel the same about this one. It's a fun arcade flight shooter, and probably great if you can find another decent pilot to team up against the co-op modes.
Steam User 0
For the cost of the game, this game is a lot of fun. Reminds me of PS1 or Nintendoish cartoonism in an WW1 fighter pilot game. I give it a 7/10 for a game under 5 bucks... If it was 20 bucks or more then a 4/10...
Steam User 0
Yes, of course I would. Even if I have only finished the tripple alliance *thats the central empires Ottoman, Imperial Germany and Austrohungary campaign, not so good for the entente at red wings. This is a retelling from the american side. This rocks. WW1 rocks because for all the dead in ww1, it lacked the savagery of ww2 in almost every field. Have you played rogue squadron and company? Have you played Star Fox and company? if you did, then what are you waiting for? This is ww1 rogue squadron. You may have favorites, we all do, however this is a fun game, a literall way to let off steam (in steam). Its meant to be fun. Please dont politicize it. So, FUNFUNFUN, arcade thrills. Dont sit on no fence. Just buy it already.
Steam User 2
You like Red Wings: Aces of the Sky and want some more? Here it is, pretty much the same game, same skills, new planes and new missions.
Time to finish: ~3,5 hours