Triplane Turmoil

Triplane Turmoil is a video game in the action genre developed by Dodekaedron Software Creations, Inc. and published by Dodekaedron Software Creations, Inc. originally released in 1996. It is currently playable on DOS.

Borrowing gameplay from the old CGA classic, Sopwith, Triplane Turmoil involves piloting your triplane fighter-bomber horizontally in a very hypothetical (and even satirical) scenario, in which the air forces of England, Germany, Japan and Finland (why, of course), World War I-style, are pitted against each other, allying and mindlessly opposing each other in each country's five-mission campaigns.

You'll engage enemy aircraft and engage in aerial combat, bomb ground targets and dodge anti-aircraft and infantry fire. And as always, landing to refuel is the hard part. Due to the simplicity of the game, the simple but lethal AI and the high difficulty of the missions, for which the computer-controlled bombers, which never fail, and the strict victory conditions (you usually fail if even one of your buildings is destroyed) are especially responsible, the single-player game becomes a carousel of puzzles: try, fail, try, fail, which is challenging but rewarding unless you don't have much patience. All the missions should be solvable and, anyway, playing is just plain fun. The multiplayer mode for up to four players (missing human pilots can be replaced by AI) to play as a team all versus all or even two versus two is also a near perfect platform to test who is the toughest of the local triplane pilots.

Best of all, Dodekaedron has released the game, formerly shareware, as freeware in 1998. Highly recommended.

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