Some games soar on the Nintendo DS. But once in a while you see a title that chokes under its own design. Freedom Wings is one such game that has the potential to be great, but nose dives all too fast.I had high expectations when I first started started playing it, hoping this flight sim would deliver. But as the enemies started showing up, the demo curtailed my fun. It forces you to use the directional pad to control the plane and the stylus to pan the camera around it.
This becomes tedious when you have to fly, look around and attempt to gun down enemy planes all at the same time. It could have been an instant classic if they had considered a different control scheme. Everything else comes across as average to sub par after that. Sadly, Freedom Wings fails to live up to its potential.
