Well this looks rather good. Dogfight is – like the name suggests – a giant furball of rickety World War I era planes circling endlessly above some forgotten battlefield, blazing away at each other with mounted machineguns until it all ends in tears. And flaming wreckage plummetting from the sky, naturally. Modder Ztormi’s not long released some footage of the alpha test he hosted, and it is this I wish to draw your attention to now.
As a longtime fan of Crimson Skies – yes, yes, the XBox version, stop booing me – I have to say I approve. The limitations are pretty obvious, from the way the planes turn in fits and starts to the low-poly landscaping to the dead planes bouncing merrily when they hit the ground, but it still looks a hell of a lot of fun, and for a one-man project this is mightily impressive. Ztormi admits realism isn’t the primary goal, beyond some snappy recreations of aircraft from the days when men went flying with the help of little more than canvas and string (guided what now?) so with that in mind the gameplay looks reasonably promising. Back from military service, he’s free to work on his virtual killing; improvements since the video was shot apparently include a general speed increase, map tweaks and player tags among other things.
It’s just been added to my bookmarks, and if you hanker for some simple, hopefully rewarding pick-up-and-play aerial combat I’d advise you add it to yours.
Dogfight’s page on ModDB can be found here.