Format: Advance
Genre: Shooter
Developer: Raylight Games
Publisher: Cinemaware

Fear. There's something to be said about it. It used to have incredible power in this world. Enough to cause mass havoc, suffering, and death. Fear is what has caused many wars in this world. Wings is a flight simulator game that takes you through the era of World War 1. You get to choose between the allies or germany. I naturally went with the allies. Seeing the campaign and having the war efforts explained in between missions, the level of despair in world war 1 was visibly evident. The game itself is also dedicated to all those who lost their lives in this terrible war. I'm sure I probably could have gotten through the game faster if I sacrificed soldiers to "just get through" missions, but I wanted to "successfully" complete missions. This game is not short, and WW1 itself took, from what I can tell, about 4 years itself with millions(billions?) of dead between the borders of france and germany. You play as a team of pilots, or a single pilot. Seems like you can raise up a lot of pilots to be a really good air fighting unit. I went with the single-pilot approach and just handled things myself. There are a few types of levels in this game. Flight Sim Levels where you play from the cockpit and fly around shooting balloons, bombers, and enemy planes. Bomber levels where you fly around and try to accurately drop bombs on targets. Cleanup levels where you roam around a map using your machine guns to gun down targets like soldiers and guns. Lastly there are time-sensitive levels, where you have to accomplish a goal before the goal runs off screen. The time-sensitive levels often revolve around stopping a train, a fleet of vehicles, or sinking a boat. The controls in this game can be a bit hard at times, and they're probably the worst part of the game. That being said, everything else about this simulator is completely spot on, from the music to the graphics, to the light-hearted humor. There are over 100+ missions in this game, I think it's around 110. The music can be light-hearted at times to glum and ominous other times. I think the germans get a different soundtrack altogether because simply selecting them plays the flight of the valkyries song. Most of the levels have secondary goals, by completing those secondary goals you get additional points to add to your pilots abilities. I'm not sure if they actually DO anything, but it feels good to have a maxxed out pilot. If nothing else, this game highlights the horrors of war. The constant fighting and refighting of the same fights and feelings over and over and over again. Truly what was the point? sure it's fun as a game, but I can't imagine wanting this in life. 4 years and millions dead all for a couple of miles littered with dead bodies. The controls can be a bit stiff in all the modes. It's hard to turn, and in the first person mode it's almost impossible to do a loop-de-loop. The game itself is almost ironically incredibly responsive, especially for a GBA game. It's a weird paradox that it's hard to control but also really responsive. I highly recommend this game for anyone that wants a flight sim game on the GBA. Uncle Sam needs YOU!

Hot Tips: Press the B button in first person mode for a better screen.
Hold B in top-down mode for a speed boost.
Hold Forward in strafing levels to slow down.
Spam A button in strafing mode to fire faster.

All in All, This flight sim earned a 8.5 for it's enjoyable dogfighting. The controls are pretty stiff and hard to controls. Turning is a nightmare. The submarine level was heinous. The top-down levels where you have limited time and have to "catch" something are pretty bad. If you run into any other plane it's an instant gameover/restart. The game tries to force a 'save the game' when you fail a mission.