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Ka-50 Black Shark screen grabs
What did I do at lunch? Fly a Russian attack helicopter.
First I went for the instant action button and got the arcade version of the game.
A nice touch but I’m really after the proper action. So back to the training video. I selected the one of starting the helicopter. This is because I can’t be bothered to keep switching between the Flight Guide and the keyboard shortcut list. Much easier to let the instructor take care of the complicated stuff. Even on the third time through, I’m still not keeping up with the instructions. Though at least this time I remembered to turn on the power to the ejector seat system (more on that later)
Here you can see the cockpit. The centre display is the TV based targeting system and the one to the right is the advanced moving map. So far I’ve been able to turn them on. There are more controls to the left, right, above, and in fact behind the pilot too.
The Ka-50 is very responsive, much more so that the Huey that I flew in Med-Evac or Sea King in Search and Rescue 4. The manual recommends using the trim control, which I shall find in the shortcut guide soon. However, as long as you’re careful it’s not a hard helicopter to control.
And here’s the Black Shark in flight. I did manage to land a couple of times but thought I would end up with the ejector seat.
If you thought that ejection might be a little risky from a helicopter with the blades over the pilot, you would be right. Luckily the designers spotted this and came up with quite a novel solution.
There are explosive bolts fitted to the blades designed to fling them out of harms way. As the picture to the right shows it all seems to have worked ok.
Hopefully I should start to learn how to fire some weapons soon.
This game looks pretty nice. although i've always found flight simulators a little too tricky to be fun. Then again i do like flying helicopters in games like BF42 with the Desert combat mod.
Does this game have multiplayer? like co-op? or is it going to be one where you need multiple CD's to play on a lan?
posted-by cosmos | April 23, 2009 6:11 PM
Hi Cosmos
There is a mulitplayer element to Black Shark, it looked as detailed as the single player with radio communications and target sharing. Sadly I looked very soon after I got the game so there weren't many servers.
Then again that's maybe a good thing because I probably would have embarrassed myself!
Tim
posted-by Tim Smith | April 24, 2009 10:20 AM
Does the single player mode involve combat, or is it just obsticle flying and stuff like that. If it does have combat then this looks like an awesome game to spend some time on. Flying with simulation games is excellent because it's fun, and probably the closest i'll ever get to the real thing :)
posted-by Confession Lazy Affiliate | May 20, 2009 5:59 PM
The single player mode does involve combat. It is a lot of fun. Close to the real thing!
posted-by John Biddle | June 3, 2009 6:45 PM
Great post, I love your post.
It sounds interesting to fly a russian war helicopter. It's not a bad idea to try this new game.
posted-by Juicy Couture | July 24, 2009 5:35 AM
I love war game. I should try this game, I guess.
posted-by Mario Santos | April 6, 2010 10:01 AM