One thing to remember is to never leave the pilot’s chair abandoned. Interestingly, you can assign any member to a position around the bomber, but unless it’s their specialty, expect them to work in a limited capacity. When viewing the interior, you can reassign crew to positions around your Lancaster bomber, ordering the engineer to fix a faulty landing gear door or a gunner to move to the tail position to attack a fighter careening toward your rear. Each perspective is a gateway to other input options. This shifts between a tight view of your craft where you can check crew placement and a pulled back standpoint that shows adjacent enemies and navigational waypoints. One of the most essential features of air command is handed with the ‘Y” button. And while the interface isn’t immediately intuitive, you’ll soon master its nuances during the heat of battle. The control system is built around several different components. You’ll be tasked with managing a squad of up to seven members, who each fulfill essential duties like piloting, navigation, repair, manning turrets, or repairing the inevitable equipment malfunctions and combat damage. While that might sound dishearteningly dissonant, you’ll have little time to focus on the appearance of your team since you’ll be preoccupied with making sure your bomber makes it back to base in one piece.Ī journey through Bomber Crew’s campaign begins with a near-requisite tutorial that quickly throws you into the thick of things. But in execution, the game plays like Memphis Belle reimagined with a cast of Fisher-Price Little People. Given Bomber Crew’s bubble-headed, cutesy squad-mates, you might assume that the game is a light-hearted interpretation of aerial warfare.