Review: Flight Control

Overview

Experience the life of an air traffic controller as you attempt to land multiple aircraft in this highly addictive, yet very simplistic game. The game starts out very slowly and quickly picks up as you can have over fifteen different incoming flights on screen at one time. The very basic layout and ease of the controls makes this the perfect game-on-the-go when you're looking to kill some time.

Features

Like I said above, the game layout and design are very simple. Because of this, there isn't much in the way of features. What you have here is basically one airport and the object is to land the planes without crashing them into each other. That's it really. Drag your finger across the screen and you change the aircraft's flight plan to whatever you want it to be. There's a Stats page and a High Score page as well. Also, there is the option to turn off the sound and listen to music from the IPod application on your device.

Breakdown

The Good:

I found the graphics and gameplay to be the top two elements of this game. I really love the "retro" look the Devs gave to Flight Control. It fits perfectly and helps set up the tone and feel of the game right off the bat. The graphics have that "cartoon" look to them here and again, it works perfectly. The gameplay is incredibly simple, yet very effective. Like I said earlier, just drag your finger across the screen and it changes the aircraft's flight plan. Each type of aircraft has its own landing strip (three total) and you must get each plane or helicopter landed without a mid-air collision. If the aircraft get close to each other, an alarm goes off and they get a flashing red circle around them.

The Bad:

The lack of options is really the only thing that this game was missing. Having only one airport and four different types of aircraft gets a little boring after a while. The game is worth $.99, but when it goes back up in price I'm not sure I would say the same thing. Other than the options, that's really the only thing "bad" that I with the game.

The Verdict

Is this game worth your hard earned dollar? I'd say so. It's fun enough and very easy to just play whenever. The hype over the game and the fact that it's been sitting in the number one spot on the App Store's Top 25 is a little undeserved though. Yes, it's fun, but I'm not sure I place it in the number one spot. Like I said, it does get a little stale after you play it for about ten minutes or so. If you've been contemplating buying this at all, get it before the price is increased because once that happens, I wouldn't purchase this without more options added in an update.

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