There are also single missions in locations such as the Pacific, Germany, the Mediterranean and the Eastern Front where aircraft from Britain, Italy, Australia and Germany are controlled. Overall the different missions include Attack on Pearl Harbor, Battle of Wake Island, Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of Midway, Battle of the Coral Sea, Siege of Malta, Battle for the Kuban, Port Moresby, and Ruhr.

In singleplayer there is a historical campaign for both the American and Japanese side. Next to well famous aircraft it also includes for instance the much lesser known Australian CAC Boomerang of which only 250 were made. It contains over 100 licensed airplanes from the different sides, including planes from Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, USA, and the USSR. It would have been a nice touch if you could actually hear what was being said, instead of having to wait for the objective to scroll across the bottom of the screen.Birds of Steel is a combat flight simulator set during World War II. While the soundtrack has a pleasingly heroic swell to it, the majority of missions force you to listen to excessively crackly commands being dished out. Levels may be accurate and modelled on satellite photos, but they lack a polish that leaves the locations looking duller than a ration book.

While the planes benefit from a slavishly devoted attention to detail, the rest of the environments suffer in comparison. It's also in the single player where the graphics and sound stand out for the wrong reasons. While some missions tend to mix this up with either a point B or maybe an ambush, nothing really stands out as being a great shake up of a formula that gets old by the fourth mission. Missions follow a fairly rigid structure of take off, go to point A, fight planes/ships, fly back to base.

Classic battles like Midway, Guadalcanal and Pearl Harbour all make an appearance, but problems with the campaign start to emerge early on. The Historic Campaign - the one with Stephen Fry narration, fact fans - chucks you into some of the major battles between the US and Japanese forces.

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