
Getting back in one piece means you can upgrade your plane with important new bits. Needless to say, it's all very hands on, all very involved - and in the heat of battle, it means things have the potential to start going very very wrong, very very quickly.
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While your gunners can blast any jerries out of the sky, they won't know where to shoot unless you manually zoom the camera out, go into targeting mode, and highlight the enemy planes to tell them while your pilot may know how to fly, he won't know where to go unless you manually rotate the camera to tag the navigation waypoints your navigator sets for you - and if you tell him to land, you'd better remind him to put his landing gear down first, as he's a bit of a forgetful old chap. Though your crew may be completely competent at their jobs, they're also seemingly entirely incapable of making any decisions for themselves, as they're relying on you to tell them how to do everything. While it's perhaps not quite as unforgiving as you might imagine, Bomber Crew certainly throws a lot of plates at you to keep spinning, and gives you very little time in which to keep them turning.

Already a smash hit on PC, Bomber Crew will be coming to PS4, Xbox One, and even Nintendo's Switch at some point during the coming months - and so we decided to have a bit of a closer look.Īnd yikes, can Bomber Crew get overwhelming. After hiring your crew (all with auto generated names, including some crackers like "Dorothy Perkins"), it's then up to you to essentially micromanage your flight, from take off to landing, as you deal with everything from engine fires to enemy fighters, not to mention actually figuring out where to drop your bombs.

Sitting somewhere on the "not all that realistic" side of the simulation spectrum, Bomber Crew tasks you with commanding your very own spiffing new Lancaster. A not well crewed Lancaster on the other hand. A well crewed Lancaster is a deadly beast.
