Unsurprisingly, it's as easy to play as one of those pianos where the keys light up (we weren't musically gifted in the Kieldsen household). Chances are you can guess what they are anyway and chances are they're in Heroes Of The Pacific somewhere. We could go on and on and list all the other fun things about a World War II flying game, but we won't. Strafing lines of enemy jeeps and landing craft - something that's guaranteed to put a wide, wide smile on the average gamer's face. There are dive-bombing runs against Japanese carriers - yet more diverting japery.
Big Funįor instance, the game has loads of close range dogfights - these are great fun. Put simply, the emphasis has been taken off realism and placed on something we like a lot more: fun. In the few missions which do require you tolouch down on the tarmac, you simply head through a couple of floaty ring waypoints and the rest is done for you. Indeed, so overpowering is Heroes' arcadey flavour that you don't even have to worry about landing your bird.
What you won't be doing is spending five hours cruising 30,000ft over Jizzlobistan in order to bomb an underground bunker eight miles away, then flying for another five hours to get back to your airbase. A typical level in Heroes might have you shooting down 50 Japanese bombers, blowing open the gates of a POW camp and clearing a field of anti-shipping mines the only way you know how - by strafing the ever-loving crap out of them. Flight Sims Can be divvied up into two main categories: those that come supplied with a phone book-sized manual and require you to come supplied with an even larger beard, and those like Heroes Of The Pacific.
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