Mosquito Squadron Review (no fat)

Game Description

You find that your hands are twitching nervously. The sweat dripping down your forehead has been long forgotten. You glance at the picture of your girl taped to the cockpit. Do you remember the prayers they used to make you say in grade school? You mumble your own bargain to whatever gods may be. Then, you take off into the stormy night. Shadows and Lightning give the enemy a natural bit of cover. You only have one try at this. Do not mess up.

Mosquito Squadron - Gameplay

This add-on for Combat Flight Simulator 3 (by Microsoft) brings many exciting new missions to the table. In fact, over four hundred missions are now at your finger tips. Welcome to World War II. Mosquito Squadron adds the excitement of being able to control the small, swift British plane, the Mosquito.

Three new campaigns are also brought to the table. Two of these campaigns are set on the legendary D-Day. Relive this exciting historical event from the cockpit of a Mosquito. The third campaign is a “What-if” campaign. This is a great diversion if the D-Day campaigns are proving a little too difficult.

One of the new features of this expansion is the ability to switch to different positions in the plane. With the stroke of a key, you can change positions in the plane and begin focusing on dropping bombs. With another keystroke, you are back to maneuvering the craft and evading the enemy.

The realism is definitely a noteworthy point of this game. Careful attention was put into the historical accuracy and detail of the artificial intelligence. Bomber intercepts were enhanced from previous versions of CFS3 and your enemies now act as they would have actually done during World War II.

Mosquito Squadron Controls

The controls for this expansion are the similar to that of the previous Combat Flight Simulator. One configures a joystick or gamepad for total control. It must be said, however, if a joystick or gamepad is unavailable to you, do not even attempt this game. The controls are much too sensitive to try and use a keyboard/mouse control.

Mosquito Squadron Graphics and Sound

The graphics are a bit cumbersome with Mosquito Squadron. If you are aiming for a ground target and lose visual contact with it, it becomes an impossible task to locate it again. Your fighter is flying overhead at nearly three hundred miles per hour.

Also, the atmospheric animations are exquisite, but very limited. Cloud cover, which is a very important element of a flight simulator, is limited in its selections. They look gorgeous, but there are not many choices to add variety to your flight. The sound, as with Combat Flight Simulator in the past is sufficient. Nothing extraordinary here, but the roar of the engine does pull you into the game.

Mosquito Squadron for CFS3 – Summing Up

There were very few noteworthy errors in Mosquito Squadron. However, it is worth mentioning that enemy pilots only seem to dive bomb rather than adding some variety with level bombing. Also, if you choose a view other than cockpit and are flying through a torrential downpour, you might be sadly disappointed to find that the rain only surrounds your plane. From the cockpit view, the animation is fine. However, from chase view, it looks somewhat odd to see your plane receiving one hundred percent of the precipitation’s attention…quite similar to a Looney Toons animation.

Mosquito Squadron pulls you into World War II and makes the experience completely three dimensional. All in all, CFS3 makes for some great flying and challenging gameplay with a historical twist to it…a must have for flight simulation buffs.

Mosquito Squadron for CFS3 - Cost

This game is available for the one time fee of $29.99.