“Start a party chat” will do just that, without you having to navigate a bunch of menus. If you turn on notifications, Cortana will also be proactive, telling you when you need to leave to make an appointment based on the start date and location.Ĭortana’s good for gaming, too. Want to see how many more games of Rocket League you can squeeze in before collecting mum from the airport? Ask Cortana for an update on her flight’s progress. Your Xbox is about to get a whole lot smarter – once you get over the fact that she seems to know more about you than even your closest friends and family, just from scanning your personal information.īeen pulling an all-day Fallout 4 marathon and not even opened the curtains yet? Ask Cortana if you need a coat and she’ll check the local weather. Annoying, maybe, but the longer string of syllables is easier for the console to recognise, hopefully meaning you won’t have to repeat yourself ever again.Ĭortana is to Windows what Siri is to iOS a fully-fledged personal assistant. Instead of saying “Xbox, On” to turn on your console, rather than pressing a button like a total chump, you now have to say "Hey Cortana". No more shouting “Xbox” – thanks, CortanaĮarly Xbox One adopters and fans of motion controls/Skype video calling/creepy invasions of privacy: prepare to learn a new phrase to interact with your console. We purchased this game with our own funds in order to do this review.2. 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. You basically fly three or four planes through the missions. 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.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |