While the soundtrack has a pleasingly heroic swell to it, the majority of missions force you to listen to excessively crackly commands being dished out. Levels may be accurate and modelled on satellite photos, but they lack a polish that leaves the locations looking duller than a ration book. While the planes benefit from a slavishly devoted attention to detail, the rest of the environments suffer in comparison. It's also in the single player where the graphics and sound stand out for the wrong reasons.

While some missions tend to mix this up with either a point B or maybe an ambush, nothing really stands out as being a great shake up of a formula that gets old by the fourth mission.

Missions follow a fairly rigid structure of take off, go to point A, fight planes/ships, fly back to base. Classic battles like Midway, Guadalcanal and Pearl Harbour all make an appearance, but problems with the campaign start to emerge early on. Oh, and PS4 owners can also unlock Sweet Tooth’s vehicle from the Twisted Metal series.The Historic Campaign - the one with Stephen Fry narration, fact fans - chucks you into some of the major battles between the US and Japanese forces. The beta, which included just one map and didn’t feature any of the plentiful car customization options that are available in the full game, provided me and my friends with some of the most fun we’ve had in a multiplayer game in this current console generation, and while it was experiencing some server problems on the day of its release, it’s almost fully functional at the time of this writing and ready for you to download it.

While playing the game is more hilarious than it is competitive, I was surprised to find that during my time with the game I actually became embroiled in some pretty intense match-ups, giving Rocket League that addictive “just one more go” allure that is so prevalent in the arcade games it’s inspired by. Along with the typical maneuvers you’d expect a car to be able to pull off, the vehicles in Rocket League can also propel themselves forward and side-to-side, granting them extra momentum and also allowing some truly spectacular goals to be scored. The game sees two teams of players adopting the roles of cars that, for some inexplicable reason, have been tasked with competing in games of soccer.

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