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Blazing Angels Set for March
16 Feb 2006 06:11 | Dusty | Xbox 360
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Today Ubisoft announced that the action-filled flight combat game Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII will be released for Xbox 360 in Q4 FY 2005-2006. (January -  March 2006)

In Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII, players test their air-combat skills as they experience the most famous battles of World War II. As a squadron leader, players can fly up to 38 WWII aircraft in both single-player and multiplayer missions.

Developed by Ubisoft, Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII features innovative squadron-based combat, in which each artificial intelligence wingman's specialized skill can be used to the pilot's advantage. During the course of the 18-mission campaign, players will evolve along with their wingmen into an ace fighting force. Spectacular graphics enhance the combat experience in true World War II battle sites such as England, Germany, France, Morocco, Pearl Harbor, Midway and Tokyo. The heroic storyline that follows the evolution of a single squadron and the cinematic presentation create moments reminiscent of classic World War II movies. Pilots fly in close to Germany's industrial terrain during a bombing raid or emerge from the fog and cloud cover over London to engage the enemy. Up to 16 players online can engage over Xbox Live online game service in head-to-head dogfights or cooperative team play between squadrons in 10 additional missions.

Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII for Xbox 360 will feature significant visual and sound enhancements that will take advantage of the powerful audio and graphical capabilities of Xbox 360's platform. Stunning graphics and improved sound will completely immerse the player in a cinematic experience as fights in epic air battles of World War II including:

- Enhanced 3D plane models: Highly detailed and authentic-looking planes make intensive use of environmental lighting and dynamic imagery.

- New improved and enlarged textures provide more detail for both planes and terrain: Players will see sun glare on their cockpits, light shafts streaking through clouds and detailed shadows on the environment. Cities, buildings and facilities have also been enhanced to take full advantage of advanced lighting effects and shading to create an intense, realistic atmosphere for cities and military bases.

- More realistic battle damage: Bullets hit planes and smoke dynamically streams from cannons and engines. Battle damage from bullets, bombs and downed planes is visible and persistent on both terrain and buildings.

- Dramatic presentation: Visual perception filtering will be enhanced including extended burn effects and motion blur to create even more drama. Intense shockwaves from explosions fill the sky with debris using dynamic lighting and particle effects made possible by Xbox 360's system.

- Enhanced sound effects: Perception filtering enhances the player's immersion. Sound treatment is actively managed in accordance to what the player does. Sound varies depending on the scene in order to create a more immersive, cinematic and dramatic atmosphere around the player.

For more screens visit our sister site ZTGamedomain.com

Update:  Thanks to everyone who pointed out that Q4 FY is January -  March 2006.









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1 -
Unregistered - Pink Panther 02.16.2006 07:12
Well, this sucks. But no matter. Oblivion in March. WOOOOOOO!

2 -
Unregistered - Snake 02.16.2006 09:14
Oh man, this sucks. But i kinda saw it coming. Anyway, there´re way too many games coming out in March, so i don´t think this is gonna affect us gamers much.

3 -
Unregistered - OEM 02.16.2006 09:28
^^

I agree. i think I will have to get two more jobs just to keep up with the game purchases.


4 -
Unregistered - U2mofo 02.16.2006 10:09
Yea that sucks... but with so many other games (Hopefully that dont get delayed) in march... this is good news for all of our wallets

5 -
Unregistered - GovNet 02.16.2006 10:28
You mean BAD for the wallet. I know I will be dipping into mind a few times with all the titles coming out and that means the wife will want to choke me for spending cash hand over fist for games.

Not that this is a bad thing

:-)


6 -
JsonHenry 02.16.2006 10:38
This game looks hella fun - but it doesn't look totally next gen either. I DLed the HD trailers of gameplay from gametrailers.com and while the game does look good, it doesn't look great. (at least not what I would expect from the 360 given how good other games look on it already)

However, like I said before, the game looks fun and in the end that is all that matters - it will be a must rent from gamefly for me.


7 - ONE MORE DELAY BUT IS FOR GOOD!
Unregistered - DREAM_BOX 02.16.2006 11:30
well i think that this is the 3rd or 4rth game that get a delay from its March release date.
But there is a serious reason for all those delays and i think that this reason is that developers want to use the cappabilities of the 360 hardware with a better way. They want to make their games to look more next-gen.
This is why i totally agree with this policy.
If i have to pay 70 euros for a game (and that means 83 dollars) , i want this game to give me the best gaming experience.
In the meantime we will have 5-6 very good games coming out in March.


8 - Delay is good
Unregistered - BASZS 02.16.2006 11:34
youre right delay is good..
look at GRAW it looks next-gen..
and i saw the movies of this game and it was crap..
if you would compare this game with the flying game WARHAWK
warhawk would kick blazing angels ass around the sky..
it has to be faster if you ask me..

but im still waiting on crimson skies 360.. to kick warhawks ass..


9 - ubisoft can be smart
Unregistered - baszs 02.16.2006 11:37
if ubisoft gets smart..
they give this game time enought to compare itself to
the flight scenes from pearl harbor..
the xbox360 can handel that for sure...

they need more time to develop this.. SHIP IT WEN ITS READY!


10 - Awwww, MAN!
Unregistered - Sanchinos 02.16.2006 11:49
I already preordered and paid for this game in full! DAMN!!!! >=\

11 -
Unregistered - truth 02.16.2006 15:30
Another Flop hits Box of Flops. Xbox 360 is Top of the Flops.

PS3 > Xbox 360. discuss.


12 - enough is enough
silent ninja 02.16.2006 15:31
i think we've had enough of this games i'm talking about WWII games. we need some fighting games or hack n slash games those are the areas that xbox360 is behind and needs to catch up.

13 -
Unregistered - truth putting an ankle lock on all the 360 fanboys 02.16.2006 15:34
Hey halo 2 is coming to PC, there goes my reason to care about the xbox 360,as halo 3 will out for PC in the end, complete with everything the Xbox 360 version will have, better controls and PC mod support.

What do 360 fanboys have to say now? Your exclusive aren't even exclusive. Xbox 360 = Poor mans PC. it's true! it's TRUE!


14 -
Unregistered - barf 02.16.2006 15:39
yes, we need more generic world war military themed shooters like the outfit. Oh and more boring driving games please, I love those. and shineyyyy graphics! and lots of arcade games which all rip off robotron WOW! No RPGs or adventure games in the arcade please, my 10 second attention span can't take it! And no japanese games, 100% of the 360 fans are racist xenophes, against anything which doesn't come from USA and germany.

15 - Red damage bars
Unregistered - Bobart 02.16.2006 18:53
First off I have to say that I'm stoked about the game. It's about two things that I really like....planes and WWII. If it had girls and Jack Daniels it would be perfect. But I'm not crazy about the red damage bars under each of the enemy planes. It takes me out of the moment when I see all these cool German planes circling around but they have big freakn' read bars under them. I could see a bar appearing when you started shooting at a plane but to see 10 gorgeous Stuka dive bombers flying around on top of a red plate. I hope there is an option to shut this off or they change it before release. Anyone else or am I just being picky?

16 -
Vivicious 02.16.2006 18:56
#14

Right, you're better off getting your privacy invaded with THE big brother of companies, SONY. That'll be fun, them keeping track of everything you do when you're online, DRM security on each and every game and don't forget the 100 games churned out per week with zero quality thanks to Sony's "develop what you want for PS3, while we say there actually WILL be games that support 1080p" atittude.

Yea, thank God Sony isn't as stupid as Microsoft by aquiring new developers and inventing new game franchises, we'd rather have all sequels anyway, originality is just not Sony's way (We leave that to the talented developers in Japan...unfortunately they all work for Nintendo and Microsoft now.) We know we can screw all of Japan over with 3 launch titles anyway, God knows they'd never buy a product from an AMERICAN company, but let's pretend they're the racists ok?

Sweet, I can't wait to play RPG nr. 700 with over 2,000 hours of CGI! Yeehaw! Sure, you only play for 5 min. before running into the next cutscene, but at least there's a number behind each game instead of those new franchises on the X360.

And wait until we get Sony Sing, Dance, and wave your arms in the air like an idiot part 5! Now we can show how pathetic we are and socially inactive to our friends, WITHOUT EVEN LEAVING THE HOUSE! Awesome!

Cool, can't wait until I can cramp up my hands for life on our vaporware's controller when we get it in 2010, this is going to be great!


......You're an idiot.


17 - But Ubisoft's financial year ends in March 06
Unregistered - BlazingAngel 02.16.2006 23:37
I think this story has miscalculated the financial year. Ubisoft has always followed the FY of April 1st - March 31st. Their Q4 for FY 2005-2006 would be March 2006. So this game would release next month, wouldn't it?

http://press.ubi.com/fullpost.php?id=70&story=192 - the press release only states Q4, not a calendar month.



18 - xbox or ps3
Unregistered - johnplayer 02.16.2006 23:46
allways wanted a good flight sim

if i can level everything it will get my vote


19 - An Airplane game. WW2...AWSOME!!
Trickedbullet 02.17.2006 00:04
How could anyone complain about a WW2 airplane game? WW2 is the perfect battlezone for everything. Forget about the other time periods. What we really need is an ultra realistic, Virtual reality, fully interactive, Massively online multiplayer, WW2 game where you literally relive WW2. WW2 games are probably so popular because the battles are more balanced and ideal for people to play. The M1 Garand, for example is semi auto with only 8 rounds and long range while the M1A1 Thomson sub machine gun is roughly 20 rounds with terrible range. Snipers were few and far between as not everyone could snipe. Vehicles were actually vulnerable to attack. Modern day warfare is way too tech savy and would create too many small scale long range battles. Vehicles, like the M1A1 and A2 tanks are pretty hard to destroy even when an enemy tank shoots it dead center from behind. A frickin Rpg only dents the armour of the tank.


Really, if you think about it, WW2 is the absolutly best time period to wargame in. Now maybe in the year 2500 we may tire of WW2, but untill we have some real Mechwarrior style battles in real life, WW2 is the place to be.


20 -
Vivicious 02.17.2006 09:18
#19

I seriously dislike WW II games, and I actually totally agree with you. =)


21 - The truth about fiscal years
Unregistered - Mel 02.17.2006 12:46
UBI soft Q4 is january to march.

http://www.ubisoftgroup.com/News/Info.aspx?nId=3738

"Outlook for fiscal year 2005-2006 revised downward
For the fourth quarter ending March 31, 2006, the Group now anticipates revenues of around 130 million euros."

Fiscal year is NOT a standard "measurement" it is different for every company. It depends when they submit their reports, and yada yada things I don't understand about. I just know it is different.

Can also check this gamestop article if you still don't believe UBI themselves.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/17/news_6120654.html


no need to create panic. :-)


22 - Ahhh! <phew> March it is!
Unregistered - Sanchinos 02.17.2006 14:31
Thanks for making me skeptical of the "August" thing guys - I went to Ubi's forums and got the official word:

http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4281085773/m/9351089114

[Q] sorry if this has been asked and answered has there been an official release date for the 360?

[A]:

UbiRazz
UK Community Manager
Posted Wed February 15 2006 02:28
31st March in UK


23 - gimme a break guys
Unregistered - xflop sux balls 02.18.2006 09:57
guys just accept the fact that 360 is a ps2 in higher resolution...
IT SURELY SUX BALLS ...BTW gears of war is all CGI ....yeas its CGI u were fooled people...


24 - Looks awesome
Unregistered - sweet dude 02.18.2006 17:03
f u all this game looks awesome

25 -
Unregistered - bobert 02.18.2006 17:46
Hey this goes out to #13. If u just buy a consol for one of its game ur a knob gobbler and just because Halo 2 is coming out on PC doesn't mean Halo 3 is coming out for it. Pc might not be able to handle it let alone play it. so u can have nice smooth graphics or some bull crap jumpy jagged shooter. Not that I have anything agence the PC its just a half decint one now days would cost 2000 bucks CND. so any ways #13 go gobble or lover bob's knob.

26 -
Unregistered - still gonna be a good month anyways 02.18.2006 17:48
march is looking very promising with quite a few titles coming out.



27 - 360 rules!
Unregistered - Sony fanboys are bored....LOL 02.18.2006 19:08
I hope Sony has a great product with great games. I do however find it hilarious that the stupid sony fanboys are so bored with nothing to do because they have no next gen console to play on, so they come hear taking it out on us because we not only have a better system, but we have it now! HHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....sucks being you guys! The demo for fight night 3 is just awesome...can't wait for the full game in a couple of weeks. I saw actuall game footage of GOW and it's just unreal how good it looks. I will be playing that game online for years to come as well as ghost recon. I hope Sony is prepared for this because all the incredible games that will be out for the 360 at thier launch is gonna be hard to overcome. Especially if the PS3 is price over $500.00

28 - Lets all point and laugh at PS fanboys!
Trickedbullet 02.18.2006 22:08
Yes, we must all point and laugh at the playstation fanboys. All ready in this latest news a fanboy has decided to come in and simply trash the 360. To me this demonstrates just how desperate and worried the PS fans really are. They have been cornered and feel threatened by Us xbox gamers. To make themselves feel better they simply trash talk the opposition. Here is a vivid example. Imagine that all xbox gamers where combat hardened Marines/Army/Seals, and all Ps fanboys were skinny 3 feet tall cybergeeks armed with sticks. The original xbox was our charge against those geeks, and the ps3 only represents those same geeks now armed with twigs, while us xbox gamers are armed to the teeth. You can picture the result. If I were a ps fanboy, I would be terrified right about now too. Even if the ps3 comes out it will still be at the same level as the 360 or even worse. I may be a fanboy in the xbox world but, I know that from just about every concievable angle, the ps3 just cannot win.

Remember, Everyone thought that the xbox was no threat when it came out, but look at it now...


29 - Way to go XBOX360NEWS you guys Screwed Up
Unregistered - James 02.20.2006 00:25
This game is coming out in a month. What a joke you guys are

30 -
Unregistered - ps3 fan boys are geeks 02.22.2006 10:35
a fink that we should all point nad laugh at the ps3 fans there little geeks and we can use them weapons wat 28 was goin on about there little faggots

31 -
ploody 02.22.2006 16:12
360 a poor mans PC? That's funny because the poor mans PC out-performs all the rest by a considerable margin. I'm glad I have a poor man's PC because I get to play the poor man games. Have you seen the poor man games? You know, the ones that look WAY better then everything else. Come to think of it, what was that Farcry video doing......oh yea! comparing the 360 to PC, didn't they say something about the 360 being able to handle more. Hmmmmm....this is truly ironic....you guys are getting ripped off, paying thousands of dollars to play worse versions of the game games.

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