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Aces of the Luftwaffe – Simulation Game Review
Aces of the Luftwaffe is a Simulation/Casual game from www.handy-games.com GmbH, first launched in 14th February 2013.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 24+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Aces of the Luftwaffe Stand Out
YOU have to show what you’re made of as the war over Europe is in full swing. Fight waves of Axis planes and panzers until you hit the boss enemies – the ACES OF THE LUFTWAFFE.
STORY
It is the darkest hour for England. The Axis are sending their best into the Battle of Britain, and only a handful of brave pilots are left to destroy them. Get into your war plane and don’t let go of the trigger before each and every enemy has been blown out of the skies! But even if you vanquish the notorious Aces of the Luftwaffe, are you prepared to take the fight to the mainland?
Will YOU foil the occult plans of the Luftwaffe to spread darkness over England?
FEATURES
- PLAY WITHOUT ADS!
- Fight thousands of enemy air planes
- Choose and upgrade your plane and pilot
- Beat super tough bosses
- Fly bombastic missions
- Enjoy mighty power-ups
- Full tablet support
- MFi game controller support
- Game Center support
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This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Aces of the Luftwaffe is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th August 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Added 64 bit support
Fixed More Games links
Download & Availability
Aces of the Luftwaffe is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Aces of the Luftwaffe on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Really glad to have AoL up and running again, but with the update, there are a few music bugs as well as screen bugs. Hope you can fix these. Either way, the game is still pretty awesome.
It's a good game but we get no sound.
Decent game, brings back memories if 1942. Fun enough to play although it is not very deep. Ship upgrades are very easy to obtain and most levels you will conquer in one try. The bosses are more difficult and and some will take a few tries. Biggest issue is that the achievements do not work proper, you complete them but do not gain pts.
Get yer crap together handygames, what a waste of two dollars, can't even play the game on our iPod 5th gen, crashes instantly,gimme our goddamn refund.
We have an iPhone 5 with IOS 8. The game crashes everytime we click on it. We want a refund.
We can't even try the game! It loads to the first screen and then crashes! We paid for this so it would be nice if you guys could fix it so we can actually use it. So far our money has been wasted.
This game will not stop deleting our progress.
One of our favorite shmups on the App Store. No issues with crashing or anything. Playing on iPhone 4S.
Game play is good (classic vertical scroller) and we enjoyed it enough to make an in-app purchase … BUT,when attempting to make said purchase we were horrified to see that none of the bundles of currency for sale actually had prices listed. Thus meaning we had to blindly purchase an item without knowing how much it costs!! Needless to say we were not willing to do this and sale was lost. Not smart if you ask us, but what do we know, maybe they don't need our money.
Worked good at first now will not open and shows an error message every time. Waste of money.
We had some issues when we first started the app, including a few crashes. After that, we had to figure out some of the mechanics ourselves, as it's not a super-intuitive design. After spamming a boss fight for some upgrade coins, we got stuck on a level with no instruction. The difficulty curve is somewhat ridiculous, to say the least. All in all, we figured we could be generous and buy a new app to try, as it got 'featured' on the store. We regret the decision, even for just $1.99, and would love a refund, even if we're sure they won't offer one.
We'd appreciate a refund considering we bought this and it crashes on the 5s on startup.
Best game in the world!! Now we're trying to get pass the boss level; very challenging game, get it now.
This game is sooooo addicting… But still pretty hard. We play it ALLLLLL the time!!! Get it right now u won't regret it.
Kind of difficult to advance to some stages.
Really enjoyable, but a bit difficult. Tie should go to the player.
It's like the old school arcade games of the 80's. Awesome game with definite replay ability! Can't wait for the update.
Awesome game but you run out of levels way too quickly. 5 stars if more levels were there.
It's good. But could need more updates like multi player and strongly needs more levels.
But it crashs all time on ipod touch 4.
IPod touch 4th gen barely playable. Our iOS is up to date, but game constantly crashes. If we could play longer we would like it. Frustrated.
Crashes almost immediately upon starting game. We rate NO stars, if possible.
Spend $ for upgrade coin to buy more fun.m game crashes all the time now. Developer wouldn't even respond back. Don't waste any money on this game until they fix the disappointing deal busters. One star was a half star to much.
We would love to rate 5 but can't lags and crashes and shuts off not even five mins into the game fix it! We'll rate 5.
Great game don't let anyone stop you from getting it very fun.
We appreciate the look of the planes and the characters. It's nicely balanced for a casual game. We have a number of iOS 194x shooters-at the moment this is our favorite. As an aside, we've had no stability issues over several sessions on an iPad 2 and an iPhone 5.
This game is fun to play and well worth the price. Great replay value.
Fun little time passer game. Hope new levels come soon.
Honestly, we haven't experienced the crashing issues others have mentioned on our iPad 3 (knock on wood) and we're on the third "world." There is a little too much grinding in the game as you're leveling up your planes, but it's a pleasant enough gameplay experience and hasn't lost us yet. Dig the graphics and challenge… Reminds us a bit of Jamestown, except without the volume of content. Controls are a bit driftier than the controls many iOS shooter fans have come to love in Cave's games, but they still feel good (they don't feel laggy or slow, like the iOS version of Raiden). Overall, we hope the debs continue to develop this game. It has great potential and is totally worth the $1 asking price. UPDATE: Just beat the final boss and not a single crash. Assuming those experience crashes are on older devices. Anyway, we seriously hope new content is released eventually. We'd totally pay for some new levels & planes. Pretty burnt out on the three included worlds after all the grind that was required to upgrade our planes (and we didn't even max them out). Again, this is a solid shooter and we've really come to like the controls and play mechanics. Well done.
It's a fun, entertaining game for the price.. The only problem we have with it is, after every mission restarts you must get all of your power ups, weapons over again.. A bit annoying, other than this, great game to pass the time.
It looks like it is good game, but some of the graphics is not that high res. It has a tendancy to crash repeatedly — It did for us 4 times before the first game, and 3 times trying to play the second level. It looks like a 1942 clone — but they use the collecting of crosses to unlock things — which you can also buy if you don't want to do it the hard way. An all to common method of paying for free games. Not sure it works here until the stability issue is handled. The crashes add frustrasion that overwhelms the nostalgic shooter fun that was intended.
This game is decent and passes the time, it's lacking graphics and more voice over. 99 cents is a fair price. Enjoy.
The game gets repetitive. Of this genre we prefer AirAttack HD.
Fun at first, but now it crashes all the time.
Your plane starts off beyond worthless and upgrades cost a ridiculous amount. Try and suffer through it and then grind when you are allowed to for a game that really not balanced right at all. Unless you cough up some cash or make this your second unhappy job this "game" won't play right. Avoid this.
This game worked only once now it crashes every time after starting.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.10
- Size: 41.79 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: www.handy-games.com GmbH
Last updated: 11th August 2017 | Genre: Simulation, Casual | Developer: www.handy-games.com GmbH