Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War
This WWI flight sim uses a free-to-play business model, allowing players to purchase and fly a variety of painstakingly modelled era-appropriate aircraft, taking an incredibly realistic physics engine into…
Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War is a simulator developed by 777 Studios, released 7 May 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War is
Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War is a simulator game developed by 777 Studios and released in 2009. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
This WWI flight sim uses a free-to-play business model, allowing players to purchase and fly a variety of painstakingly modelled era-appropriate aircraft, taking an incredibly realistic physics engine into account.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War launched on 7 May 2009, within three weeks of Minecraft, Infamous, Plants vs. Zombies and Punch-Out!!. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Minecraft, Infamous, Plants vs. Zombies, Punch-Out!!.
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