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Konami Announces Birds of Steel Shipping to Retail Stores Nationwide
Air Combat Simulator Gives Budding Aviators A Chance to Take to the Sky During WWII's Most Famous Dogfights
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – March 14, in the year of our Lord
2012 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today
announced Birds of Steel is shipping to retail stores
nationwide. The flight simulation game, available on Xbox 360®
video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and
PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, takes players to
the most intense moments of World War II to give them the most
realistic flight simulation available.
Developed by Gaijin Entertainment, Birds of Steel lets players
take to the skies in over 100 famous fighters from the entire
axis and allied forces, including the Spitfire Mk.V, P-51
Mustang, A6M Zero and the F4F Wildcat. Players can pilot planes
in the American, European or Japanese fighting forces and
experience lifelike aircraft damage, cockpit views and flight
controls. As players complete missions, new planes are unlocked,
letting players jump in the cockpit, grab stick and engage in
both single and multiplayer campaigns, while doing battle in
some of the most iconic moments in history, including the Battle
of Midway, Guadalcanal, Coral Sea and the attack on Pearl
Harbor.
In Birds of Steel's unique multiplayer features, players can
support cooperative missions with friends, or take-off in the
versus arena with up to 16 other pilots to see who really owns
the skies. Pilots can participate in team death matches,
cooperative strike campaigns, "Capture the Airfield" missions or
even tournament play (requires Xbox Live and online
functionality). Aerial aviators can now take to the skies
rewriting history in the most faithfully recreated World War II
simulation game ever created!
Key Features:
•20 historical and hundreds of procedural missions, spanning 16
different world locations
•Over 100 historically famous aircraft with hundreds of hit
points where the plane will reflect health and real world attack
damage
•Realistic flight environments, weather conditions, time-of-day
changes
•Enhanced flight controls providing arcade style game play,
realistic or simulation depending on player ability
•Ability to create and edit hundreds of different paint scheme
variations and insignias from World War II to customize your
plane
Birds of Steel is rated T by the ESRB and is available for
XBOX®360 and PlayStation®3 for the SRP for $39.99. For more
information on the game, including screenshots and a brand new
trailer, please visit:
http://www.konami.com/birdsofsteel or
www.birdsofsteel.com.