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Developer:
ndWare Pty Ltd
Age rating: 4+
Compatibility: Compatible with iPad.
Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later.
Flight Control HDCurrent Version: 1.03
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In Flight Control HD, you’re an air traffic controller at an increasingly busy airport. Touch and drag the aircraft to their landing zones, but don’t let them collide. Sounds simple? It is, but can you juggle dozens of flights at peak hour?
Firemint’s #1 iPhone hit has been re-imagined for the big screen - it’s everything you love about Flight Control, plus everything you wanted on iPad!
*** MORE SPACE *** to land your planes on larger maps
*** MORE AIRPORTS *** with eight single-player maps including three in HD
*** MORE WAYS TO PLAY *** including co-op and split-screen versus modes
*** MORE FUN *** with many improvements to the line-drawing genre it created
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Acclaim for Flight Control on iPhone:
* More than 2,000,000 copies sold – one of the most popular games ever
* #1 Paid App in more than 20 countries
* Featured by Apple in “Rewind: Best of 2009”
* Winner: Pocket Gamer Awards 2010 – Game of the Year
* Winner: Macworld 2009 App Gems Awards – Best Casual Game
* Finalist: Interactive Achievement Awards - Best Casual Game
* Finalist: Game Developers Choice Awards - Best Handheld Game
Visit firemint.com/flightcontrolhd for more information.
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Flight Control HD comes packed with:
* Eight single-player maps: three new HD airfields, all the Classic maps from the iPhone version (Original, Beach, Carrier and Outback) plus a new Snow airfield with variable wind direction.
* Beautiful high-quality graphics throughout, including an all-new menu and updated graphics for the Classic maps.
* Two player multiplayer over Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth. Play with a friend who has an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad (requires Flight Control or Flight Control HD on both devices): land aircraft of your own color, and direct others off the screen for your fellow Controller to land.
* Co-operative multiplayer on a single iPad: share landing duties with a friend on one of three HD airfields.
* Do battle on a split-screen in the competitive “versus” mode on one iPad: send your planes to capture aircraft from your opponent, but risk losing them if you fail your mission!
* Popular fast forward mode so that expert players can progress through the game faster. Plus a new “safe” fast forward that turns off when collisions may be imminent, so you can still save the day!
* Track your performance with detailed statistics and check your skills with in-game leaderboards and ranks.
* All-new path continuation widgets make advanced new play styles possible on the large iPad screen. Draw a path part of the way, and then continue it later from its end node.
* Flight Control HD automatically saves your game when you are interrupted so you can resume exactly where you left off when you are ready.
* Enjoy songs from your own iPod music library while you play.
* BONUS: includes a longer version of the classic Flight Control song that you just can’t get out of your head!
Visit the community website at flightcontrolhd.cloudcell.com for more connected features:
* See Google maps mash-ups of Flight Control scores from all over the world.
* Link to your Twitter or Facebook accounts to auto-boast your high scores.
* Install the Facebook app to see how you rank against your friends.
* Set up personalise
Flight Control HD Review
A must-have game for the iPad
If I had to survey my fellow gaming journalist about what game they were most excited about playing on the iPad, Flight Control HD would be the nearly unanimous winner. The breakthrough finger guidance flight control application is perfectly suited to the iPad's large touchscreen. With the promise of new maps and a 3D level, Flight Control HD is one of the most anticipated games of the iPad launch. After playing it most of launch day I can say that while not as groundbreaking as the original, Flight Control HD makes a jolly good landing onto the new platform.
Simply put, Flight Control HD has some big shoes to fill. Flight Control soared onto the iPhone and iPod touch last year to widespread acclaim and more than one mobile game of the year award. Flight Control's perfect combination of intuitively designed controls and thoroughly entertaining concept made for a surprisingly popular application. Even Firemint couldn't have anticipated that its "finger guidance" touchscreen game mechanic would have spawned so many imitators that it's now considered an entirely new subgenre of puzzle games.
The gameplay and the controls in the iPad version remain intact. That's a good thing.
The first thing you'll notice about the game is the visual upgrade. The graphics are better, but the details, the menus, everything is just exceptionally well-polished. You'll enjoy playing Flight Control on your iPhone, but the game was meant to be played on a screen this large. With so much real estate, you can navigate your planes that much more carefully.
The gameplay remains essentially intact and the new maps add more challenging, addictive air traffic control chaos than before. With your fingers you'll guide planes, jets, and helicopters to their color-coordinated landing pads and strips. You can see where the planes are going now thanks to a handy white line that shows their trajectory. You can speed up gameplay with a handy button in the corner that automatically turns off when there's a threat of a crash.
Like the original version, the soundtrack will once again get caught in your head. Bottom line: Firemint didn't change the formula because it works. Other companies have sought to replicate it but Flight Control still remains the simplest and best time management/finger guidance game out there.
The new features show that Firemint is taking the new platform seriously. The multiplayer options allow for co-op or competition on a single screen or over Wi-Fi. Macworld editors are not above a bit of healthy competition, and there were numerous instances of trash talking and close-calls as we tried to make the other person crash.
While I applaud Firemeint for experimenting, the 3D map was on the whole disappointing. While you could clearly see how the planes were hovering over the background, the colors of the actual planes were blurry and hard to discern. This made assigning them to their proper airport difficult and the entire experience felt more gimmicky than essential.
Flight Control HD takes the iPhone version and adds better graphics and better detail.
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