and Yeager don't forget that the developement life cycle is dead for WB2.xx and has been for the most part since the original ICI members parted for bigger and better things. Some left for WW2Ol, some are here, others I have no idea about?
Giving a product a good review, award or not, for future modifications that have been due out for over a year and a half but still aren't out IMO is not the way to write a review or anything along those lines.
Whether HTC won this award or not or won dogfighters or not doesn't make much difference to me because the award is for them not for me to say "I'm playing a better product." I know which one is a better product, it'd be the one I'm playing. That's the way it goes for everyone out there.
It's really rediculous for either side of the fence to be harping at one another about who's game is better. HTC staff worked on and built WarBirds. So to say the current WarBirds is worse than Aces High is redundant. Same for someone playing WBs to say that AH is some how inferior. The same developement team that built WB is now building AH, I have yet to understand how it can in anyway be inferior than it's predecessor. Afterall, that's what WB2.xx is.. it's AH's predecessor. If you think otherwise, you are very mistaken. iEN's programming magic I have yet to see, so my faith in WB3 is nil right now. Screenshots look nice, but all WB3 is going to be is a facelift while leaving the same underlying code that HiTech & his band of mega-dweebs( ;-) ) wrote several years ago. Dogfighter's award for WB should be directed to Hitech and his current band of goonies at HTC, which incidently worked on WB, and the other staff members HT worked with before the split. Afterall, it was they who wrote the code that the WBers are playing on.
AH and WB are the same, but they are different and making an attempt to convince the next person which one is better is just as futile as trying to wipe your bellybutton with a pine cone. It's annoying, hurts like all hell and you'll still have klingons circling uranus.
Anyways, that's just my opinion and you don't have to agree with it.
-SW
