![]() ![]() ![]() But after a survey of potential clients, it turned out Xbox was the preferred name for the console and it became its official name. The team disassembled a few Dell laptops and used the hardware for making the prototype console, which passed the engineering team and went into development, though the name was shortened to Xbox.Īnother interesting fact is that the high-ranking officials and the marketing team of Microsoft did not like the name of the Xbox and presented many alternatives, including the Microsoft Action Experience (MAX), Microsoft Action Reality Center (MARC), and Microsoft Play and Action Center (M-PAC). DID YOU KNOW?ĭid you know that the first Xbox was made from the pieces of a few disassembled Dell laptops? It was reported that Microsoft wanted to create a competitive, affordable, and powerful gaming console that can compete with Sony's upcoming PlayStation 2, so a team of engineers from their DirectX department got together to hatch plans for the gaming equipment they wanted to call the DirectXbox. We purchased this game with our own funds in order to do this review.Microsoft's gaming consoles are called Xbox, as a shortened term for DirectXbox, based on the names of the console's four developers: Otto Berkes, Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase, all members of Microsoft's DirectX team. So an OK game in terms of its scenarios, but the quite long loading screens, the controls, and the large jumps between difficulty levels prevent this from earning top marks. The differences between the various modes are *massive*. It seems unnecessary in a modern world where you could just keep flying smoothly to keep you in the game atmosphere. So you're in the sky, hitting Objective A, and then you have to wait through a long load screen before you "pop over" to somewhere else. You get points for each stage, so for example you get points for taking off. Your throttle is on the same stick as your turning - so turning without affecting your throttle can be rough.Ī typical mission is to take off, fly to join your group of 3-4 friends, go to your destination, deal with the task, then return and land. The controls are a bit challenging as well. It feels like a game from 3-4 years ago, not a recent release. ![]() They do also offer head to head options where you could mix things up. Birds of Steel puts you right in the crosshairs of WWII's most intense. You basically fly three or four planes through the missions. Get ready to strap in, go back in time and take stick in the most pivotal battles in the history of air combat. You can play both as the Japanese and American side. You're zipping through clouds, screaming across the treeline, and dodging to avoid a barrage of bullets. You're at Pearl Harbor as well as a number of other locations. You get a range of missions set in realistic scenarios. If you kick it up to the more realistic modes, expect to learn skills that real pilots have to know. Even the most easy mode still requires you to master a few basics. After that, the game expects you to learn how to fly a plane. You do get a set of instructional missions. ![]() Those used to arcade style flight games where you can bounce along the runway might need some patience here. We were really looking forward to this one. We adore flight games and have played most that have come out. They have modeled a vast number of planes and offer a quite challenging realistic mode. Birds of Steel is a plane flying game set in the Pacific arena of World War II. ![]()
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