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Review: Air Wings

Paper airplane combat

Air Wings is a paper-airplane based multiplayer ariel combat game. The goal is to throw a paper airplane into an arena, then control it using the gyroscope (or game controller!) in an attempt to destroy your opponents and rack up enough points to achieve a high score.


Throw your airplane into the field of battle!

This is a pretty major new upgrade, featuring a significantly redesigned in-game interface, new levels, an expanded single player mode that lets you play every level you’ve purchased, 64-bit support for the new iPhones and iPads, and various other little tweaks and fixes.

Those upgrades join an already impressive feature list, including Universal compatibility, Game Center achievements, online multiplayer, voice chat, well-integrated Airplay support, and excellently implemented iOS Game Controller support for both Standard and Extended layouts.


The new levels shake things up with some added challenge

Pangea Software, the developers of Airwings, have been one of the true standouts of iOS development (and Mac development before that). They’ve historically hit every major milestone in the history of gaming on iOS, being first on the scene with Airplay, universal iPad and iPhone support, Game Center, multiplayer, retina graphics, widescreen display, 64 bit A7 – every major gaming related move Apple has made. In the era of the Mac, Pangea was still quick on the scene, with several of their classic games coming bundled on various Macs – also leading to one of their games making it to our list of classic Mac games you can play with an iPhone.

In addition to updating almost every game they make for controller support, they recently released a new game, Dragon Trials, in partnership with Team Chaos; a partnership that will extend to yet another new game later this month, in the form of Enigmo: Explore


Great level designs make for exciting ariel dogfights

If you’ve somehow missed out on Air Wings in it’s multi-year history on the App Store, give this an immediate download. It’s free to play, with any purchase permanently removing advertisements. Controller support is excellent on Standard and Extended layouts, and on iPhone and iPad. Multiplayer is well implemented and fun. Give this one a try.