Wings over Vietnam
Despite the "Lite" tag, a fair amount of realism has been built in; 1960s-style bombsights are simulated rather than modern computer-aided aiming reticules. Dive bombing and level bombing techniques have to be…
49
TBA
Wings over Vietnam is a simulator.
What Wings over Vietnam is
Wings over Vietnam is a video game.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Despite the "Lite" tag, a fair amount of realism has been built in; 1960s-style bombsights are simulated rather than modern computer-aided aiming reticules. Dive bombing and level bombing techniques have to be worked out by the game player if they are to have success at completing missions. US Air to Air missiles in the game consist of early versions of the AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-7 Sparrow, and AIM-4 Falcon which are simulated to be as unreliable as the real missiles were. So regardless of having a "good lock on the target" there is a good chance the missile will miss. Just like the real accounts from the war suggest most of the dogfights are close in affairs with the nimble MiGs against the…
How it was received
Wings over Vietnam holds a critic score of 49 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71.
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