Yet your crew members take a good 40 seconds to pick up some ammo and take it to the tail gun. Everything else, including your enemies, moves at a fairly reasonable pace. The other problem is with movement speed. Given the closeness of everything inside the plane, you're as likely to send your engineer to one of the gun turrets as you are to have him or her fix the hydraulics system. It's not always easy to select the right member and send them to the right place either.
If not, then they just stand around waiting to be told what to do, even if it means no one is at the wheel or the oxygen system malfunctioned and needs repairing. If crew are in their proper positions, they perform their duties as they should. This is where the game is at its most enjoyable and most frustrating. Mission (Almost) Impossibleĭuring the mission you are responsible for almost every action the crew must take, including simple things like raising landing gear and opening bay doors, as well as outfitting everyone with parachutes and providing extra stores of ammo for your gunners. Everything is pretty expensive, but between rewards and side missions, money never ends up being a problem. Replacing dead crew members means starting back at level 1-until later in the game, at least-with no skills, and if your plane gets destroyed, you'll have to re-purchase your upgrades too. You'll want to survive, too, since failure is brutal. Some are purely aesthetic, like different colored jackets, but others-especially with the plane-significantly boost your chances for success and survival.
You can't do much at first as far as outfitting your crew or upgrading your plane, but after a few successful missions, the upgrades start pouring in. They don't have any effect on the crew member's abilities, but it's a cute way to make for a more immersive experience by reminding you of the nature of Britain's military forces at the start of the war. There are also fun little biographical details about each recruit's former occupation. You don't actually get to see what the skills are until they unlock, though. In the beginning, you'll probably ignore everything except speed and armor, though survival capabilities and oxygen boosts become more important as the game progresses.Įach crew members starts at level 1, and they unlock important skills as they progress-things like using less fuel or pulling off more accurate attacks. It completely flies in the face of historical accuracy, but in doing so, it also is a subtle way to make the player think, "why shouldn't it have been like this anyway?" Each potential recruit has their own stat sets. You'll start out by recruiting new members from a procedurally generated pool of rookies, male and female in all colors. However, the heart of the game is in actually managing the crew and the plane. You'll receive cash and intel points for successfully completing your missions and an additional reward for returning back to base in one piece (which is more of a challenge than it may sound), and you'll use those rewards to purchase upgrades for your crew and plane. On top of that, there are multiple side quests and the opportunity to take on bounty requests and destroy certain enemy Aces. The missions vary from simple bombing runs, to rescuing stranded soldiers, and everything in between. Part collective biography, part military history, part social history: this will remain the definitive account of the bomber crews of the Second World War for years to come.As you might have gathered from the title, Bomber Crew puts you in control of a Lancaster Bomber and its crew as you carry out various missions for the RAF during World War II.
One member of 617 squadron graphically explained that 'every time we went out, it was seven men against the Reich'.ĭrawing on letters, journals and diaries, John Sweetman examines the lives the bomber crews lived, from the highs and lows of their missions to the complexities of their friendships and the impact their place in the war had on the families and loved ones they left behind. Yet the success or failure of each and every bomber still depended entirely on the efficiency of every member of the crew at his individual position, the interaction and co-operation of all crew members as a body. By 1945, bombers had not only greatly increased in engine power and range, but the bombs which they carried rose from 250lbs to 10 tons the navigator's pencil and rubber of 1939 had been supplemented by infinitely more sophisticated electronic aids. During the Second World War aeronautical technology gathered rapid pace.
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