A Playable Graveyard
1948: Dawn of Future is very ahead of its time, while being similar to older titles. Crimson Skies' PC game from 2000 comes to mind when navigating the menus with the fictionalized aircraft, upgrades to the aircraft's flying and weapons, as well as the diegetic aspects given to the UI through the rolling down of the map when selecting a mode, and the realistic looking switches, buttons and gauges used in game. I especially enjoy a few of the features, namely the brakes giving you manueverability, gyroscopic cockpit view, and the dual buttons for the guns.
However, as far as games go, 1948 leaves a lot to be desired in 2026. It's been more than 13 years since the last update, and while I can understand the closing of the servers and compatibility with only older iOS devices, I don't understand why it's been left as a playable graveyard and nothing else.
You would've got 3 maps with 3 mission types each, as well as 2 training missions, but instead you get 2 maps, and 2 mission types. You would've got 9 planes with customizable liveries, all with upgradeable engines, avionics and weapon suites, but instead you get 2 planes, both with the same weapons and nothing else.
This game suffers because FrozenPepper made a barebones offline mode to keep the game from being entirely broken when they shut down the servers, which left the game barely anything beyond an advertisement for their next game.
I know I have no right to be unhappy with the game, as I didn't lose any money to play it, nor did I get much less than people who played the game in its heyday did, but when a game gets reduced further than it already was, it doesn't feel right. 1948 is a 3/5 game because it's a 4/5 game with the online content removed. You can't buy anything, you can barely win anything, and while the gameplay is solid, it was the only full-size plane game that FrozenPepper ended up making.
It's a novelty now, but would've been plenty fun in its time.
However, as far as games go, 1948 leaves a lot to be desired in 2026. It's been more than 13 years since the last update, and while I can understand the closing of the servers and compatibility with only older iOS devices, I don't understand why it's been left as a playable graveyard and nothing else.
You would've got 3 maps with 3 mission types each, as well as 2 training missions, but instead you get 2 maps, and 2 mission types. You would've got 9 planes with customizable liveries, all with upgradeable engines, avionics and weapon suites, but instead you get 2 planes, both with the same weapons and nothing else.
This game suffers because FrozenPepper made a barebones offline mode to keep the game from being entirely broken when they shut down the servers, which left the game barely anything beyond an advertisement for their next game.
I know I have no right to be unhappy with the game, as I didn't lose any money to play it, nor did I get much less than people who played the game in its heyday did, but when a game gets reduced further than it already was, it doesn't feel right. 1948 is a 3/5 game because it's a 4/5 game with the online content removed. You can't buy anything, you can barely win anything, and while the gameplay is solid, it was the only full-size plane game that FrozenPepper ended up making.
It's a novelty now, but would've been plenty fun in its time.
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Never
Do not get this on iPod 2 gen wasting ur time it crashes and kicked me out k?
1943
Great
Come on fix it
Come on fix it
Not the one
Not so much
Add to modern phones
This game was the best when I played it on my iPod now I'm not able to play it with my iPhone 7+ it would be great if you can fix that thx
Pls Update
Pls update this game I can't play until updated but no update will show
It was good once you could play it
This game is a brilliant game and although everyone else thinks it's hard, it should be. I can shoot UFOs so can they. The awful thing about this game is you can't play it anymore, you should update it so I can play it. When I could play it, it was brilliant
iOS 10.2 won't boot.
Sorry guys
I wasted to much effort.
The time I wasted isn't worth the effort to download.
It crashes no matter what, I reset it, reinstalled it.
Reset the phone.
A pig does what a pig is. Bacon 👻 oink
I wasted to much effort.
The time I wasted isn't worth the effort to download.
It crashes no matter what, I reset it, reinstalled it.
Reset the phone.
A pig does what a pig is. Bacon 👻 oink
Don't open
Downloaded game but there are bugs and the game doesn't open and cuts back to phone screen, can you fix this.
Then I can play game and give more stars.
Then I can play game and give more stars.
Hay jerks meet my temper!
Hay have you ever herd the song fix well make like a banana and split fix it plz!
Would have loved to play but...
What a joke. Could never to get it to launch. I have a phone that is a year old and am running all current IOS.
Boo
I can't even get into the game!👎🏻
Junk
Won't load on my iPhone 6s Plus. Time to delete.
Ugh
It looks amazing but it wont open ;-;
Terrible
I downloaded this game and every single mf time I click on it, it crashes. Every. Single. Time. Image downloaded it multiple times with the same results
CANT EVEN GET ON THE GAME
Hello I haven't been able to get on the game it's self I tap on the app and then it crashes so can y'all fix that quickly please and thank you😄😄😄
TERRIBLE
HOW DO YOU PLAY THIS GAME this game is terrible there should be a how to play DO NOT GET THIS GAME
Hard to hit targets
I can't hit anything with the cannons its to hard to focus.
Uuuuugh
Can't open the app... Crashes
Keeps on Crashing
Each time I open the app, it keeps on crashing. Is this app compatible or incompatible for my iPad?