While some retro video game looks are making huge comebacks – muddy PS1 textures, I’m looking at you – I’m especially excited to see a developer here bringing back a very special aesthetic that I was great at as a kid: those of hardcore military flight simulations of the early 90s.
Of the F-15 Series too Chuck Yeager to Falcon 3.0, those particular games that came out at that particular time, all had a few things in common when it came to their graphics, like low poly planes, barren terrain, and wavering. Oh that wavering.
You don’t see this type of game anymore because flight sims obsessed with realism quickly shifted to filling those empty landscapes with hills, buildings, and satellite data. while the planes themselves are virtually photorealistic in 2021.
Not here! This is Tiny battle arenawhich, despite the aesthetics, is actually an airborne arcade shooter for the PC, which should be released in September. In addition, it is published by Microprose, the same brand that published so many of these original flight simulations at the time, and while this is not the same company – the original died years ago and a new company just bought the name – it is still going to be beautiful be seeing the logo in front of a game that looks like this.
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