Description
Featured in "Rewind: Best of 2009"! Flight Control is an App Store classic - the landmark game that started the whole "line drawing" genre. It's the incredibly simple, yet insanely addictive worldwide #1 game from Firemint that everyone is talking about. Play the original and best today!
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Macworld awarded Flight Control an extremely rare 5 out of 5 mice: "The unique gameplay is perfectly suited to the device, and I am hopelessly addicted."
CNET said Flight Control “...makes brilliant use of the iPhone and iPod Touch's interface... surprisingly rich and devilishly addictive gameplay... an exceptionally entertaining and satisfying game.”
IGN issued a challenge: “I dare you to play it just once… a fun, quick fix game that has me coming back for more”
Pocket Gamer said that “Flight Control is one of those essential games that you'll continually return to and will remain on your iPhone forever”
Touch Arcade called Flight Control “Incredibly fun... the winning balance of easy pick-up gameplay, ramping difficulty and tickling the need to try “just one more time”… we’re big fans of the game”
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Air traffic control is the world's most stressful job, but not for you. You don't need heading angles, flight rules or meteorological reports, you're a natural! A prodigy! A born controller! Just touch and drag the planes to their runway.
- Incredibly simple, but amazingly engaging.
- Beautiful graphics and animation.
- Insanely addictive 'one more go' gameplay.
Flight Control now includes 4 airfields and 10 aircraft types:
- Earn your wings on the beloved classic map that started it all!
- Coast into a relaxing beachside resort and guide the jets, helicopters and seaplanes in to land (or float…)
- Take the helm of the control center on an aircraft carrier and command military jets and helicopters. Watch out for the twist in this one ;)
- Venture into the Australian outback and see the Royal Flying Doctors Service in action. When their emergency planes appear, make sure you give them a wide berth!
Game features include:
- Multiplayer over local Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth (on supported devices).
- Listen to your own iTunes music by starting a playlist before you begin the game, or by using the iPhone OS3.0 music picker while you play - with or without game sound effects .
- Quick save and resume: whenever the game exits (for example, because you receive a phone call) your current game will be saved and be ready for you to resume the next time you play.
- Fast-forward the game and speed up the action. No more waiting impatiently for the first few planes to appear!
Aim for a new personal best or compete with other Flight Controllers (online scoreboards are available with an internet connection):
- Track your performance with detailed statistics.
- Compare yourself to others with in-game scoreboards based on location and rank; personal bests; and scores from all nearby players, regardless of rank.
Flight Control also has its own website community at flightcontrol.cloudcell.com:
- See Google Maps mashups of Flight Controller scores.
- Link to your Twitter account to automatically tweet your new personal best scores.
- Link to your Facebook account to automatically publish your new personal best scores on your wall and feed.
- Add tags to your Cloudcell profile to help your friends find you and keep track of other Flight Controllers by 'following' them.
So welcome aboard, please sit back, fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the mayhem!
What's New in Version 1.6
- Various bug fixes
- The RFDS plane will now return if you exit the game while they’re in the process of landing. It takes more than that to stop the Royal Flying Doctor Service!
Customer Reviews
Promising. I'm hooked!
After 15 min. I was hooked. I'm an ATC at the busiest TRACON on the planet (SCT), and this game has potential.
Suggestions:
1. Different airfield layout's (Parallel runways, Parallel w/intersecting runway, multiple Helipads...)
2. wx effects on A/C (wind, storm cells to avoid).
3. The ultimate- add the dimension of altitude. Attached to each A/C is a two-digit number representing ALT. in thousands of feet.
Double-tap A/C to descend 1000', Triple-tap to climb 1000'.
4. Departing A/C that you vector out a departure gate displayed somewhere on the edge of the screen as 2 parallel lines (kind of like a goalpost),
and have a required altitude they must exit the gate at (if you add suggestion 3).
Add any 2 out of 4 of the above, and I'll gladly give 5 stars.
I love it!
I've been playing this game for all of 10 minutes and I just had to let everyone know how wonderful this game is. The controls are intuitive and the game play is amazing. After the very first swipe of my finger to direct craft, I was immediately hooked! This game is unique, nothing like anything else I’ve seen in the AppStore.
All in all… for a buck, it's well worth the price! Grab it now while it's still on sale!!!
Note to the developers:
“Must have” features in order of priority:
• More airports / maps
• Global high scores
• Military jetfighter (flies faster than the passenger jetliner)
“Good to have” features in order of priority:
• Multiplayer battle mode (i.e. – play heads up vs. someone else, highest score wins)
• Multiplayer co-op mode (i.e. – two players manipulate flight controls, perhaps alternating turns?)
• WiFi Support - This would be easier to implement
• 3G / Edge Support - This would be more difficult as server-side support is required, but would be a cool feature!
An absolute must!!
Let me put it this way..... I purchased my I-Pod Touch for THIS game! I know, call me insane. I didn't want to go to AT&T to get the I-Phone and I already have 2 other I-Pods for music. Although I've seen other cool apps before that I liked, this game is the one that actually made me walk into the Apple store the next day and buy the I-Pod Touch so that I could play this game. At a .99 price tag, Flight Control is an absolute steal! I paid $300 for mine, lol! Deceptively simple and highly addictive...BEWARE!!
If Firemint reads these reviews, I'm not really sure what you can do to make it better, other than just add more different levels in the future I guess.
- $0.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Oct 16, 2009
- Current Version: 1.6
- 1.6 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 7.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: ndWare Pty Ltd
- © 2009 Firemint
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
