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Indian Air Force: A Cut Above – Education Game Review
Indian Air Force: A Cut Above is a Education/Adventure/Action game from THREYE INTERACTIVE PRIVATE LIMITED, first launched in 15th March 2019.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 126+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Indian Air Force: A Cut Above Stand Out
== The Indian Air Force ===
• The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces officially established on 8th October 1932.
• Today, having completed the Platinum Jubilee of dedicated service to the nation, the Indian Air Force is a modern, technology-intensive force distinguished by its commitment to excellence and professionalism.
• The Indian Air Force prides itself to put in its regular service the most advanced and cutting edge technologies in aviation, space & information technology. It is an early adopter of new and emergent tech, and demonstrates its leadership in implementing the nation’s policy objectives.
• Inline with the Digital India initiative, the IAF has taken landmark steps like Online Tests for IAF recruitment, and an interactive mobile game to showcase the life of an IAF pilot.
== Indian Air Force’s mobile gaming application ==
• The official mobile gaming application of the IAF will allow an aspirant to experience first hand the roles of an IAF air warrior, as well as means to apply and appear for recruitment from the comfort of his/her mobile phone.
• The gaming application will have various features, including offline single player missions, an online multiplayer and a career navigator information section as well as augmented reality features.
=== Single player features ===
• Single player missions will be based on an engaging narrative, allowing the player to fly a wide arsenal of IAF’s aircraft assets.
• The player will be taught how to handle a high performance aircraft via a tutorial mission – at the end of which, the player will earn his/her wings.
• 10 engaging and high action missions will follow, which will allow the user to experience air power of the IAF, in the form of its response, reach, precision and flexibility, including support to other arms of the Indian Military, as well as aid to civil authorities in the form of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief.
• The user will also learn about the IAF’s weapons and tactics, and how IAF’s new acquisitions will help in realizing the IAF’s future strategy.
=== Multiplayer features ===
• The mobile gaming application will include online multiplayer, where players can engage with other like minded players over the internet.
• Multiplayer game will have two modes – a squad vs squad where players team up, and a free for all, where the last man standing will be the winner.
• The user will have the option of using long range missiles which go beyond visual range, as well as ability to go head-on against other players in dogfight mode.
=== Schedule of release ===
• The official gaming application will be released in a phased manner in the year 2019. The first version, comprising of single player missions is being released in July 2019.
• The full version, including multiplayer features is expected to be released in October 2019.
=== For support and contact, please use the following resources ===
• Websites
- Official site of the Indian Air Force: http://indianairforce.nic.in
- For Career Options: https://www.careerindianairforce.cdac.in
• Social Media Channels - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indianairforce/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IndianAirForce/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/IAF_MCC
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Indian Air Force: A Cut Above is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th December 2024
Recent improvements include:
1.) Bugfix: Some users were not able to play the chapter mission after completing the tutorial missions
2.) Bugfix: Noticeboard not rendering text correctly
3.) Bugfix: Landscape Left/Right auto screen rotation enabled
4.) Bufix: Mission Checkpoint was not saving correctly for some users
Download & Availability
Indian Air Force: A Cut Above is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Indian Air Force: A Cut Above 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:
We are thrilled to fly MiG-21 and Sukhoi MKis in this game. Not just that there are Surgical Strike missions that keeps the player on the edge. The only drawback – even though we successfully completed the mission, the stage is remains locked and we have replay again to unlock it. But we can't save the game thats the only negative with this game and which is why we took one star off.
This is cool but we wish they would get the machine gun sounds right but the game is cool we love it a lot if you like helicopters and jets this is the game for you.
We love everything in this game and we believed you may have worked hard to do it. But why not add a US Air Force game or something similar to this.
Horrible game cant even get past level 3 the flares dont work an d the maneuvering cannot outsmart missles.
We love this game!! But could you fix the flip around screen so that when you charge your device you can play? Could you please make a US version of the game.
Trasheycash you are a stupid person.
This is a wonderful game! But there should be more aircrafts in this game such as F-16, euro fighter, and also more transport aircrafts.
This game is actually pretty nice and has some great graphics. The only problem is that mission three is luck based. Looking at the other reviews we seem to understand that this is not only for us. Now we get irl, flares dont have 100% success rate but can u please increase the rate? Also seems like this game is dead.
Some of the controls were a bit testy, especially when pushing the stick down on all aircraft. Controls are confusing on the helicopters, especially the AH-64. Another issue is that the enemy aircraft are programmed somewhat poorly. 90% of each dogfight we were stuck in a Lufberyended up being kind of boring. Still a lot of fun though, and a fantastic recruitment idea. We wish the US armed services had similar games to garner service interest.
When we use the cmd button the missile always hits us and the mig-21 cockpit looks like f-16 cockpit pls do a lot of upgrades to this game and make the planes more realistic we hate this game so much pls do something about this game.
Your game is absolutely unstable!!!! Controls are horrible and unstable.
Graphics terrible load time way to long.
This is the worst game we played we keep getting hit when the bullet never is close to us we give this a 1 star get better at making games.
Awesome game. But Im stuck at mission 4 when enemy jet attacks. It seems like the cmd is not working! Otherwise its an awesome game.
Wonderfully executed – the graphics and gameplay is immersive. Ive spent more hours than we can admit.
- Really poor multiplayer feature, hardly connects to the server. 2. Free flight option is removed, really bad decision. This is a downgrade from the previous version, not an upgrade.
The app is awesome. Please add more level because we already completed the all of them.
Fantastic. Love this simulator.
No nonsense simple and easy to use. Still difficult to master at difficult level. Good one for all ages.
This game is awesome. We remember the days we played Guardians of the skies. Very intensive combat flight sim. And Indian Air Force: A cut above. Just completely dominated all the other flight sims in our opinion. We love this game because theres a mixture of transport, combat, area dominance, and ground attack. This game Ive been dying to place cause we played the open beta and it surprised us. And we love the flight sims you guys make. You guys are insane for bringing content that possibly no other flight sim has to offer. Thanks so much guys. A+ 100%.
Game is very addictive. Physics adherence is impressive.
This is a well sorted game. Very nicely done.
It has few challenges which are good, Thanks for the game.
Just started playing it and we are hooked. A must have for every Indian.
Overall a good gaming app though one issue that we notice for iphone x on the notch area the ui get cutoff… Not able to view the content properly.
Great ! The app is one of the simplest start playing easily. Just played For 20mins…A few improvements required such as 1. Orientation is locked one way even before the mission starts. We should be able to choose our orientation in settings and then lock. 2. Needs testing on iPhone X/XS as the controls, weapons are not easily accessible under the camera wedge. OR the settings icon is blocked in the edge.
For a start its good…better animation would have done wonder and the controls too are bad.
We downloaded your game on our iPad and afterwards when we tried to open the app, it is freezing up on the second screen with the aircraft picture and then going out of the app to the home screen. This is happening every time we try to open the app. Please help with this. Thanks DDatta.
Doesnt work on iOS. Tried on both iPhone 6 and iPad. It crashes before it opens.
This game opens normaly but after about 5 seconds its back to home page.
When we open the app, the progress bar goes to 50% then exits the app to the home screen, please fix.
It is not working on iPhone 6 with iOS 12.4.tried to reinstall but no success. It unable to load and crash every attempt.
SORRY TO GIVE THE LOW RATING BUT CANNOT OPEN GAME ON IPHONE 6+ with iOS 12.4 The game says it is compatible with the device & works on any iOS 9 & above. PLEASE PATCH THE GAME FOR IPHONE 6+.
It just shows the logo of Indian Air Force and app automatically shuts down. Is not working on our phone (iphone 5S).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.5
- Size: 818.20 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [THREYE INTERACTIVE PRIVATE LIMITED]()
Last updated: 5th December 2024 | Genre: Education, Adventure | Developer: THREYE INTERACTIVE PRIVATE LIMITED