Weather it be the amazing amount of detail that is in the planes themselves, the fantastic richness to both the air and ground, or even to the weather – Birds of Steel is an absolutely beautiful game. Every graphical element of this game is almost picture perfect. Related: In case you want to try batman games, read the Batman Arkham City reviewīeauty might not be the word people use to describe games set in times of war, but it is a word you have to use with Birds of Steel. When starting the campaign you do have to go through an annoyingly obnoxious tutorial, but once you get through that the beauty of this game starts to shine. Yes, Birds of Steel is super easy to just jump in to and play – even setting the difficulty to normal isn’t too rough for the newcomer to games of flying skill. It should also come as no surprise then that just like Birds of Prey, Birds of Steel is incredibly approachable yet has the potential to be ungodly difficult.

It should come as no surprise that Birds of Steel is the spiritual successor to the last great flying game, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. But does it match 10 of the best PS4 games in 2014? Let’s find out… Thankfully then, they spent the extra capital that would normally be for marketing on making the game good. Unlike an FPS game that needs the press in order to set it apart from the crowd, the last good flying game came out three years ago so they can afford to be a bit skimpy on the marketing budget – after all an expensive campaign won’t necessarily mean a ton more sales in this genre. An audience that fanatically follows the release of any flying game since they are so few and far between anymore. I actually hadn’t heard anything about this game prior to it coming in, which while that might normally be a major warning sign I knew that it could also be indicative of a game targeting an audience that didn’t need to be reminded it was coming out. If you liked this PS3 game, you might also like our White Knight Chronicles 2 review. Now I am not the biggest player of flying games, but when a copy of Birds of Steel landed in my mail without warning, I figured I would give it a shot.

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