![]() ![]() As you progress, you'll unlock better equipment, like toughened oxygen supplies, leather gloves, boots, heavier flak vests, better helmets and such. Gearing up your crew is also important, unless you want a plane full of dead people. ![]() Your plane too becomes a character in and of itself, the time you'll sink into customising it and building its resilience meaning that when it does get shot down or crash, your heart will sink. Permadeath means you'll want to look after each and every one of your crew, and as such, you can supply your plane with medikits, fire extinguishers and parachutes to keep them safe, or a dinghy and homing pigeon in the event that you all have to bail out. Incidentally, don't take an evasive manoeuvre when your engineer is out on the wing performing repairs. Gun turrets can be bolstered with bigger cannons and ammo belts that negate the need to keep running off to grab more bullets, engines can be augmented to allow your plane to carry more weight, while countermeasures like engine extinguishers enable you to put out fires without sending your engineer out onto the wing or having your pilot perform an emergency nosedive. As such, there's a whole stack of customisation options you can purchase with the cash rewards you're given after each successful mission, enabling you to either make your plane more nimble and lightweight, or heavily armoured to the hilt to better protect your crew. Preparation before each mission proves vital, the briefing you're given offering clues as to what you'll be up against, be it squadrons of enemy fighters, bombing targets on the ground or an enemy ace pilot wreaking havoc amid the clouds. That's just about the crux of Bomber Crew, but each mission has its own set of demands and objectives to carry out, and if you want to earn bonus cash to afford better upgrades for your aircraft, you'll want to take some intel snaps and bring them home too. Once you've left the tarmac and you're airborne, a cross-section view of your plane and zoomed-out exterior view is easily toggled at the touch of a button, and from this former perspective you're able to switch between individual squad members and assign them to different tasks. From recruiting a full complement of crew members to learning how to manage repairs, take recon photographs, engage enemy fighters, and (of course) drop bombs, Bomber Crew can seem a bit much. Initially, Bomber Crew seems incredibly fiddly, apparently better suited to more direct, intuitive touchscreen controls, but once the tutorial has slowly and gently eased you in, you'll soon wrap your head around what at first appears to be a needlessly convoluted control system. Placed in charge of a Lancaster bomber-alike plane on a series of treacherous missions during World War II, it falls to you to manage every facet of the mission, from navigating your way to each objective then back again safely to base, handling repairs and staving off enemy fighters looking to shred your plane to ribbons with machine gun fire. Remember the movie Memphis Belle? Bomber Crew is essentially a video game version of that film but without Matthew Modine, Harry Connick Jr. ![]()
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