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The beta patch was a fairly small affair, but it resulted in something I’ve never seen in a game. So, I created a Yuplay account, logged in, and was immediately informed I needed to download the 1.0.4.0 “beta” patch.

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Let me explain why.Īfter the mere five or ten minutes it took for me to install the game from the DVD, when I first attempted to play the game, it warned me that I needed to log in to a Yuplay client in order to play online… or at least have anything that I do have any sort of effect. It took me two days to get all the patches downloaded and installed with my residential DSL bandwidth. Wings of Prey has set a personal record with me for the Longest-Time-Ever-Spent-Installing-and-Patching: two days. Wrong. Acquiring the later version should have saved on patching and updating, but as I will explain later, no such luck. Well, we at least didn’t have to download all the many updates that the original WoP is well known for requiring. We’re not sure if it was an oversight or unique marketing (what the hell is a Yum?) but it was more than a little irritating because we essentially have a copy of the original title in a different looking package with a poster enclosed. We know from the box art that the Collector’s Edition (v1.0.3.6) was supposed to ship with the Wings of the Luftwaffe Expansion Pack, but when you attempt to play those missions, you see a dialog box that asks you if you want to buy them. There are a few differences between the original PC version of Wings of Prey and Wings of Prey: Collector’s Edition which is distributed by Iceberg Interactive. Think of Wings of Prey as that girl you met a long time ago that you saw once and instantly knew she was ten pounds of crazy in a five-pound bag. But, true to form from games coming from the beloved Motherland, it’s isn’t one of those girls that will go all the way on a first date. Gaijin Entertainment is a development house out of the former Soviet Union, looking capitalism square in the kisser, eager and ready to plant a big wet one right on its’ cheek. They were colossally wrong, of course, but God bless the Russians, it didn’t really stop them from trying. Released last year, it represented a major shift in the prevailing winds of console gameplay, the thought that one of those little set-top boxes stuffed to the gills with overheating electronics could handle the grown-up responsibility of something akin to a flight simulator. That’s kind of how I felt the entire time I played around with Wings of Prey. There comes a point in any relationship in which the responsible adult sits astraddle the world before them, takes a good, long look at the scene presented with a gimlet eye (or at this hour of the morning, probably a screwdriver eye) and says to the other party, “You are bat-crap insane.”

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