Kotaku: Heroes Over Europe Review: A Flying Shame

Kotaku: Let's face it: When it comes to World War II-based games, it's easy to skimp on plot. All you need are two words: "Kill Nazis" – there you go, instant storyline.

Heroes Over Europe pretty much falls into that category. The arcade-style air combat game loosely strings together 14 missions from the perspectives of three airmen – an American, a Brit and a New Zealander. However, aside from the overarching theme of beating back Hitler's forces, the missions form no real coherent narrative. They're just excuses to fly around shooting at stuff – and, sorry to say, not great excuses, at that.

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Worthplaying: Heroes Over Europe (PC) Review

WP writes: "Heroes Over Europe is the sequel to Heroes of the Pacific, the World War II arcade flight sim that pit would-be pilots against the forces of the Empire of Japan. From Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima, the well-told story underlying its missions was riveting as players saw the war from the eyes of a young pilot who was part of the campaign that pushed the IJN back across the Pacific. I was surprised to see the sequel fall far from the established mark. It's not as bad as what passes for Wing Commander on XBLA nowadays, but one expects a sequel to actually improve on its predecessor."

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pcgia5245d ago

I forgot about this one, looks pretty fun actually.

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Gametactics: Heroes Over Europe Review

Heroes Over Europe had the potential to be a fun quirky arcade shooter. Unfortunately a combination of repetitive missions, bad in-game GUI, mediocre graphics and a completely barren online environment will cause most gamers to simply move on to other games in a couple hours.

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Blogcritics: Heroes Over Europe Review

While the game's barebones plot works without issue, it seems as though the developers have tried to make up for a perceived lack there by adding unnecessary elements like the "Ace Kill" and foolish mission assignments.

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