Down in Flames Demo

[RainOfTerror]

Down in Flames focuses on tactical fighter to fighter dogfight combat in World War II. The game is turn based, and the action is resolved through a unique 'action - reaction' game mechanic that allows players to experience the feel of real life aerial dogfighting with a fast paced, easy to learn system.

Battlefront.com has released a Down in Flames demo featuring one campaign (Dunkirk), 4 planes, online and LAN (up to 4 players), and choose from four different nationalities. This demo requires you to install Microsoft .Net Framework 1.01.

Get the Down in Flames demo (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=27085) (122mb) over at WorthPlaying.

[Draft]

Turn based... dogfighting? I gotta admit, I'm intruiged.

[goc_sin]

Sweet. I was curious about this game awhile back, i'll have to give the demo a try.

[Nesta]

downloading now. Wow, I haven't visited battlefront.com since the last Combat Mission game. They have certainly expanded their line of products, eh?

[Draft]

Hrm, installer's not working :(

[Justin_McElroy]

Wow, I'm officially creating the hottest new soon-to-be-overused criticism just for the title of "Down in Flames."

Critic bait.

All across the nation, critics are praying to the maker that this game is terrible.

[Nesta]

Yeah, installer not working on my box, either.

[RainOfTerror]

Let me contact Battlefront and see what they have to say about the installer not working.

Update : My bad, the file was incorrectly labelled as a .exe, while in fact it was a .zip file. I tried myself and it seems to be working just fine.

[Bubby]

E:\Download>DiF_BetaDemoSetup.exe
Program too big to fit in memory

Dang.

[edit] Grabbing from another site and it appears to be a zip.

Mirrors listed HERE (http://www.battlefront.com/products/dif/demo.html)

[Steve_Erhardt]

I've had my eye on this for a LONG damn time. Of course I blink and then BLAMMO the demo comes out. =P

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to it. I haven't seen a good turn-based dogfighting game on the PC since Over the Reich, and that was like FOREVER ago, so I'm really hungry for this.

[Bubby]

What a fiasco. The bad exe from Worthplaying.com would not delete unless I went to safe mode cmd prompt with explorer not running. That's 45 minutes I'll never get back.

[goc_sin]

I had the same problem with Worthplaying.com, but was able to download it at gamers hell . It's kind of an interesting game... and I kind of like it. May even pick it up when it's out.

You can find a working download here:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_10074.shtml

[Wombat]

I absolutely adored the original card game this is based on. I can't even guess how many hours I played it over the years. Unfortunately my copy went missing during a move.

[rein]

It took a few loses for me to figure out exactly what the hell I was doing. Once I started getting the hang of it, fun. Still having some tough matches and my wingman seems to be better than the leader but I could really get into this game.

I only wish if it is based on a card game they could have given card graphics to use instead of just the card titles. It wouldn't change game play any but it could add a lot to the feel of the game.

[1FSTCAT]

You can see the cards if you right click on the card name. This is definitely a cool game. I played last night from about 8PM to midnight!

--Ed