Kalypso Media have today announced that Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is now available for purchase and download directly from Xbox LIVE Games On Demand for 1600 Microsoft Points.

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is an arcade flight game with battles spanning both World Wars, featuring seven campaigns and 49 missions that engage players in white-knuckle air battles and secret missions across Europe and North Africa. An impressive selection of famous aircraft of the era is available to the player, each showcasing specific strengths and weaknesses in the battle for air supremacy.

The game challenges players with a mix of mission types, including patrolling, sneaking/stealth, hit & run, bombing and escort objectives. Mission objectives are presented in an animated, graphic-novel style format as cockpit chatter keeps the game lively and fun. Casual pilots and veteran simulation fan will appreciate the game’s dual control schemes- either arcade, for simpler, faster control, or simulation mode, for more fine-tuned and realistic control.

New features have today been announced for Air Conflicts: Secret Wars, the new combat action title confirmed for release in the UK on July 1st, 2011 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers owning 3D television sets will find themselves closer to the aerial action than ever before thanks to Air Conflicts: Secret Wars providing full 3D TV support out of the box.


In addition, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars will also feature full PlayStation Move motion control support in the PlayStation 3 version, with players being able to control their aircraft by tilting the motion controller, as well as being able to activate the exhilarating tail gunner mode.


In Air Conflicts: Secret Wars players can relive the most famous aerial battles of World War I and II like never before. The game provides plenty of variety, as players can fly 16 meticulously detailed and accurate aircraft in nearly 50 exciting missions across the seven campaigns. The mission tasks are diverse and range from air space clearance operations to the bombardment of targets on the ground, attacks on enemy convoys and reconnaissance, escort and patrol flights.


After each successful mission players can upgrade their skills to enable them to control their aircraft more expertly, make their aircraft more robust and select better co-pilots. There are two control modes for the combat aircraft: the controls are simplified in arcade mode and simulation mode offers a realistic control system that is true to the original. Alongside the campaign, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars also features several multiplayer modes, local and via internet for up to four players.


KEY FEATURES


· Seven campaigns, each based upon a resistance movement of World War II.


· Uniquely historical battles such as the siege of Tobruk, the battle of the Neretva Bridge, and Operation Belt in Poland.


· Fight for the causes of key resistance movements such as the People's Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, The Polish Armia Krajowa, and the French Maquis.


· Action-packed gameplay delivers the excitement of serial combat in a manner accessible to everyone.


· Over 20 different landscapes, each individually detailed with period precision.


· Pilot more than 16 individual aircraft, in both World War I and World War II settings.


· Machine gun your enemies, dog fight, bomb ground targets and rocket ground troops and enemy vehicles.


· 49 varied missions provide combat, stealth and exploratory gameplay.


· The player controls his aircraft with either mouse and keyboard or gamepad.


· The player can choose between two control schemes: arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft.


· Several multiplayer modes, local and via internet for up to eight players.