Editorial Review: Now anyone with a PlayStation can dive into the hobby of radio-controlled helicopter flying without the enormous financial cost or the risk of crashing as you learn to fly. R/C Stunt Copter, believe it or not, is an absolutely enthralling and entertaining game.
Wisely, the game integrates a training mode as a must-play starter course before advancing to the mission-based aerial challenges. However, don't expect to snooze your way through the missions: the dynamic vocal host spouts out plenty of snide and witty remarks to keep gamers on their toes. Also, excellent carnival-like music accompanies each bit of the game, including menu screens, training levels, and various gaming segments. Extremely touchy controls emulate the real thing, while the game provides words of encouragement to help you master dangerous stunts such as loops, rolls, and even inverted flight. With rich gameplay and helpful flying tips, this game achieves the rare feat of teaching while it entertains. A must-own! --Jeff Young
Pros:
Outstanding presentation makes for a mix of learning and fun
Superb physics model and controls give the feeling of really controlling a tiny copter
Extremely challenging levels will keep players coming back for more
Cons:
The concentration required may be too frustrating for younger players
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Training for First Person Shooter
Yes, this game is a little tough and, ive been told, actually made a Monk yell. That said, it has taught my kid to fly a little model copter, better than the simulator disk it came with.
BUT... i was given this game by a 'Rainbow Six Vegas' nut who told me to play it...live it and it would improve my FPS skills. It has greatly improved my hand to eye coordination. I am buying it for myself asap to touch up my sniping on COD4.
GET THIS GAME if you like or want to fly model copters.
GET THIS GAME and serve the other team some nice clean HEAD SHOTS!!!
DONT get this game if you occasionally toss controllers. Ive gone through several.
Rating: - A Fun little game
This unique little game lets you fly rc helicopters, it involes the use of both joysticks to piolt you copter though the different trials. It's pretty fun, but with there isn't a whole lot to do in the game. If it had an battle mode or something...
Rating: - Annoying game, could have been better
The first thing your going to do when you play this game is mute your TV. Almost any move you attempt will cause your virtual instructor to make some kind of comment. This gets real old, real fast, aspecially when you realize how difficult it is to fly one of the RC Copters. Any little tap on the controls, sends your copter out of control, so the last thing you need to hear is none stop, repeaded joking comments.
The layout of this game sucks. Your restricted to a little peice of land for each stage, so if your looking for a game where you can fly around and explore, then this is not your game.
I personally have never flown a remote controlled copter before, but if this game is accurate, then I'm not ever going to waste my money on something that will end up having an ultimate destiny of being smashed to pieces out of frustration.
So is this game worth it? Maybe, if you get it really, really, really cheap, or if you have already mastered remote controlled copters in the real world. If they make another one of these games, then they need to add a whole lot more to it. Some may like it, but I don't.
No stars!
Rating: - Heli Flight
Heli flight is 10x more difficult than model airplanes. The training program on this game is great. If it didn't have that automatic help, you'd be all over the place. Like starting out with an ace helicopter. This game does in fact help you fly REAL model helis. The only catch is, you MUST use the dual shock analog controller and use the two joysticks and become efficient with the ace helicopter(s). It's also not just a trainer for going into model flight, it's also a challenge and great fun. I have a helicopter and this game does help out a lot. Or, if you have an Intel Pentium, you can go to ... and get a REAL FLIGHT Simulator for about ... and you can really see what it's like. That'll be a LOT more REALISTIC than this game but this PSX game does help out a lot.
Rating: - A great surprise!
This game really surprised me in a couple of ways.
I kept hearing it was really hard and frustrating, but I just went through the training first, and it helped me get my skills up high enough to manage just fine. Then I slowly made my way up to harder and harder copters. Great sense of progression!
Something I didn't expect at all was the humor. There is a voice giving surprisingly intelligent feedback to just about everything you do, and he's really funny. And there's a 'virtual' hand you can throw up to block the screen when you're playing against someone else in the 2-player mode.
And the whole time you're learning to fly a real r/c helicopter! I've never flown one myself, but now that I can manage the Ace copter in this game, I can't wait to give it a try with a real one, and maybe even buy one myself if I can afford it.
- Training for First Person Shooter
- A Fun little game
- Annoying game, could have been better
