Ubisoft contest asks you to shoot down planes, undress dames

Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII is, rather ostensibly, a game about good airplanes shooting down evil airplanes. Unfortunately, a central dilemma faced by Ubisoft UK's marketing department is that only a very small segment of the target audience is sexually attracted to winged machines. Draping some fine women all over the cockpit is as good a solution as any, and much like strapping a floral bikini onto a decrepit corpse, gives the horrors of airborne war that sexy spin.

That's not the only thing you'll get out of it, as the classy "Girls of Blazing Angels 2" challenge you to a particularly sadistic website minigame, offering an Xbox 360 Elite as prize. The game, apparently based around Victoria's Secret Missions of World War II, is explained quite simply: "The longer you survive the more the girls of Blazing Angels will strip." Exciting in theory, but maddeningly distracting in practice. You try piloting a plane through waves of enemies while a woman takes off her clothes in a nearby video window!

Whoever gets the Xbox 360 in the end will have demonstrated an amazing knack for concentration despite being bombarded by Ubisoft's amazing lack of sophistication.

[Via MSXbox World, thanks Scott.]