It controls great with the sixaxis. It's just a bad game. They must have put the best level in the demo, because the demo was awesome - fighting a zillion Germans during a thunderstorm in an experimental "wing" type plane.
However, the actual game is deep-fried ass so far.
You start off as a codger trying to relive his glory days at an air show, which is of course the perfect way to start off a fucking action flight game. You're expected to perform ten "stunts" such as flying underneath a bridge to collect tokens. So it's a collectathon during the tutorial part. And the "stunts" are pretty hard, frustrating, even. And if you fuck up on the last stunt, guess what - you're doing the whole thing over again. So I finally finish this tedious chore, and the scene morphs into a dogfight with some Germans. Okay, cool, now we're in it to win it. Only, no we're not. This action lasts about two minutes, then cut scene.
Only it's not a cut scene, it's a fucking graphic novel with the return of our old friend COMIC SANS LETTERING from the first game. For the comic-styled "panels" they apparently used some random dudes who were hanging around the dev studio, and dressed them out of the costume closet of a local High School's drama class. The one guy who's supposed to be the lead character didn't even get his fucking hair cut in a period style for the photo shoot, so he's got that "WWII by way of 2005" look going on. They've taken these staged photos and run them through the Photoshop "Posterize" and "Watercolor" filters to "art them up." The voice acting and dialogue is perfectly suited to these Bazooka Joe quality cut scenes.
Then, first mission. It's an escort mission. So, thirty minutes into this game about flying experimental secret aircraft with cool prototype weaponry which will turn German airplanes into fiery coffins, I've gotten to do that for exactly two minutes. In this escort mission, you have to keep your partner with the awful fake British accent in your line of sight, or the mission fails. And the fake Brit evidently learned to pilot by watching mosquitoes fly, because he is all over the goddamned place like he's trying to shake you on purpose. I quit playing after the second restart.
I still want a good flight game which uses the sixaxis, but this isn't it. I'll give it another try in a few minutes, but I am guessing I played the best part of this game in the demo.
