Recent reviews by Effect

Pros: Intriguing story, great character depth, beautiful graphics, decent abilities
Cons: monotonous gameplay mechanics, learning curve after taking a break from the game
6/10
It's a decent game, I enjoyed most of the time I spent. Worth full price? Probably not.
Interesting take on time travel, interesting movie/game feel

What a brilliant game. Fantastic story telling, visually appealing, and just an all around amazing game. Played through twice

I've really enjoyed this game so far and it's 10 times better when playing with other people.

Good interface, controls, HOTAS support, variety of helicopters, a decent number of maps and just enough of a skill requirement. I have really enjoyed playing it. Not as fun as the Cobra in BF2, but still good.

That being said, the XP system to unlock new helo's and armament is very grindy. The same 2 maps per level over and over again gets old fast.
Another thing is as you advance you lose your gunners? How does a Huey have door gunners and not a Blackhawk? Also why is there no front gunner in the Cobra or Apache?
It would also be nice to fight against AI helo's

This is a great game that requires great teamwork, communication, and strategy. While it is possible to play by yourself, the game is designed for multiple operators. Different consoles/workstations provide different functionality to the ship's operation. A great game for LAN parties, you can run multiple ships on the server concurrently. With a variety of missions ranging from simple search and destroy to insanely difficult, multi-front, all out warfare, this game offers a great deal of fun.

Great addon aircraft with a highly detailed cockpit, animations, and flight model.
A few negative things to note about this aircraft:

• the ILS system does a horrible job maintaining the glideslope
  
• the 2d panel to control altitude, speed, etc. does not match the 3d cockpit
  
• unable to arm spoilers when landing, switch is INOP and keyboard shortcut to arm only puts them to full
  
• HUD brightness does not scale with daytime conditions and the brightness knob doesn't get bright enough

Doors can be opened by pressing SHIFT+E then 1,2,3,4