Flight Control was one of my all-time favourite iPhone games. It was simple, beautifully designed and, with over 2,000,000 copies sold, incredibly popular. The aim of the game was to land a selection of aircraft at an airport by dragging a route with your finger from the plan to the runway. More and more planes and helicopters came onscreen, making it more difficult to land them without causing a crash.
Well those lovely chaps at Firemint have just launched Flight Control HD for the iPad and you’ll be pleased to hear that the gorgeous graphics and style remain. As does the aim of the game, but the iPad’s larger screen has allowed a few new features for the HD version.
Below I’ve included a list of new features announced in the press release:
- More ways to play, including multiplayer modes that take advantage of iPad’s innovative Multi-Touch interface.
- Split-screen “versus” mode: play competitively by sending your planes to capture aircraft from your opponent.
Flight Control HD offers 2-player
- Co-operative multiplayer on a single iPad: share landing duties with a friend on one of three HD airfields.
- Multiplayer on two devices (selected from iPad, iPhone or iPod touch): land aircraft of your own color, and direct others off the screen for your fellow Controller to land.
- More space to land your planes and bigger airports thanks to the large iPad screen, with three new HD airfields.
- Beautiful high-quality graphics throughout, including an all-new menu and updated graphics for the Classic airfields from the iPhone version.
- New Snow airfield with variable wind direction in addition to the four Classic iPhone airfields (Original, Beach, Carrier and Outback) and three HD airfields, for a total of eight single-player airfields.
- Quirky “3D view” airfield brings Flight Control to life like never before – use red/cyan glasses to see aircraft floating above the iPad (3D glasses not included, widely available from retailers such as amazon.com at low cost).
These features all sound great and…wait, what? 3D? Now I know it was April fools’ day yesterday but are Firemint being serious here? If the game really does pack 3D – with the use of glasses – then, wow, that’s surely a first for a mobile game. Hmm, not sure many gamers will bust out their 3D specs on the train, but who knows.
I particularly like the two-player features, taking great advantage of the iPads big screen!
wow! flight control! One of the best game in my iPod.
Thanks for commenting!
I do love Flight Control for it’s looks and simplicity. 2-player games on the iPad will be awesome!
Alistair
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