The game’s three maps are vibrant and designed wildly different from each other. Flight Control is not Mega Man hard: it’s merely challenging.įlight Control isn’t a game you’ll ogle for its visual splendor: the planes are bland and there’s hardly any detail. What I’ve been enjoying for some time now is how manageable this frantic plotting is. As the game progresses, planes of all shapes, sizes, and speeds appear randomly around the borders of the small maps, forcing you to reevaluate what you’re plotting on the fly.Īs you can imagine - the screenshots may help you visualize - things can get hectic in a hurry if you aren’t dropping planes off in their landing zones immediately. A brain dead person or a retarded baby can plot routes, but it does require a special touch to create the right routes. The key to success is successfully queuing arrivals to the landing zones, thus avoiding plane-on-plane collisions - a sweet mix of simplicity and complexity. Routes aren’t set in stone you have the ability to completely change what the plane is doing by clicking on it again. You direct planes by clicking on them then dragging them in order to create the desired route to a landing. The goal is to direct mini-place (there’s helicopters, too) to their class-specific landing strips. Flight Control is all I can ask for, really.Īt its core, the game is a point, click, and drag fest. Instead, it fulfills desire to play a simple, intuitive game on my mobile device. It doesn’t stroke my gamer ego and doesn’t quench my occasional thirst for an intellection game. It’s an addictive puzzle title with a dab of charm and the perfect mix of simplicity and complexity. It’s only voice.įlight Control is one of my recent discoveries that I like to tell my friend about. In his estimation, no amount of stars or gloriously worded mini-reviews can propel the right games above the occasionally inglorious mess of the App Store. The real gems, he told me, are only discovered by listening to pals talk about the game in that fabled excited-but-hushed gamer voice. Recently, I listened to a drunken comrade talk about how he believes word of mouth is the ultimate rating system for Apple’s cluttered App Store. Sounds simple, but like Peggle, it has its own crazy charm. You steer little planes to their specific landing strips by pointing and clicking. Instead, I’ll talk about the game.įlight Control, as you can imagine, is a game about flight control. But I’ll stop there because I don’t desire to spill the review beans before the break. Other than jarring myself with Flight Control before stepping onto my own flight home after E3, I’ve had a great time with the title. Sure, the game may be cute and light on violence, but watching planes collide is never fun when you’re about to hit the skies. Note to self: never play a game called Flight Control while at an airport and immediately before your own flight leaves.
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