Secret Weapons Over Normandy
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| Developer(s) | Totally Games |
| Publisher(s) | LucasArts |
| Release date(s) | November 18, 2003 |
| Genre(s) | Flight simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen (T) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC |
Secret Weapons Over Normandy or (SWON) is a World War II-based flight simulation video game released on November 18, 2003. Published by Lucas Arts and developed by Totally Games, the game is composed of objective-based missions set in 1940s European, North African, and the Pacific theatres of war. The player is James Chase, an American pilot volunteering to assist the British, who stand alone at this point of the war. He flies in the classified squadron known as the Battlehawks Over the course of the game, the player has opportunities to: earn or capture new aircraft, add upgrades to his/her existing aircraft, and as the game puts it; "to halt the most insidious plans of the Third Reich." The player's principle opponent is the Luftwaffe, in particular the enemies being the Battlehawk's counterpart, the elite squadron of top German pilots, known as Nemesis (similar to the real KG 200), commanded by Oberst Krieger. The player will also face off against the forces of the Japanese Empire. It is notable for the prescence of many prototype designs that never flew in combat: the XP-55 Ascendor, XP-56 Black Bullet, Chance-Vought Flying Pancake, the Junkers Ju 390, and the Daimler Benz C. Several German weapons projects that were never completed also feature in the game, such as the Mistel and the Wasserfall missile launcher. It is classified as a simulation, though when compared and contrasted with games like the IL-2 Sturmovik series of games, the level of input required to fly, or the historical accuracy of SWON leads it to be classified more as an action combat game, or arcade style simulation.
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Throughout the course of the game; the player will have the opportunity to fly many types of WWII aircraft into combat. Ranging from allied aircraft such as the Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, the P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang, and the F4F Wildcat; to axis types like the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, Me-262 and Japanese A6M Zero. Non-flyable aircraft like the B-17 Flying Fortress, C-47 Skytrain, and Heinkel He 111 bombers also appear.
