{"title":"Naps Team","description":"\u003cp\u003eNaps Team is the oldest continuously operating game studio in Italy, founded in Messina, Sicily in 1993 by Fabio Capone and Domenico Barba. Like many software houses of the period the team cut its teeth on the 16-bit Amiga, and its first success arrived almost immediately: Shadow Fighter, published by Gremlin Interactive in 1994, was a one-on-one fighter fast and polished enough that Amiga Power ranked it the twentieth best game of all time in 1996. The relationship with Gremlin carried the studio onto consoles with Gekido: Urban Fighters, a 2000 PlayStation brawler, and the Sicilian team kept the series alive on its own terms with Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge for the Game Boy Advance in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere many studios of that generation were absorbed or closed, Naps Team stayed small, independent and in Messina. Iron Wings, a Kickstarter-backed arcade air-combat game that puts two pilots under the player's control across Second World War battlefields, arrived in 2017 and reached consoles afterwards, and the studio followed it in 2018 with a remaster of Gekido: Kintaro's Revenge for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Baldo: The Guardian Owls, a 2021 action-RPG that pairs Zelda-style adventuring with a hand-drawn look inspired by Studio Ghibli, showed the same two-founder outfit still willing to attempt big ideas three decades in. For players the appeal is continuity - a catalogue that runs from Amiga fighters to modern multi-platform releases, made by the same people who started it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"iron-wings-pc-download","title":"Iron Wings","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eIron Wings is arcade-action air combat set in the Second World War, built around an idea most flying shooters never try: you fly two pilots at once. Childhood friends Jack and Amelia join a special air force squadron under Colonel David Ruse, and across a campaign of missions packed with primary objectives, side objectives and enemies you switch between their planes at will, handing orders to whichever pilot you are not flying. Fast, loud dogfights are the core of it, but shooting on its own will not get the job done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo Pilots, One Fight\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring every mission you control both pilots and both aircraft, swapping between them whenever the situation calls for it and assigning the other a primary target to go after. Each plane carries its own set of extra tools, so deciding who does what, and when, is as much a part of the game as lining up a shot. Send Amelia after the bombers while Jack keeps the escorts busy, then trade places when the fight moves, and the squadron starts to feel like a real partnership rather than a lone hero with an AI shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTools of the Trade\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eChaff and Magnetron\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eRadar countermeasures that let you slip through enemy detection or break a lock when the sky fills with tracers. Knowing when to spend them, and which plane is carrying them, can decide a sortie before the first shot is fired.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003ePhoto Camera\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eSome objectives call for detailed visual reports rather than bombs, which means a steady reconnaissance pass over a defended target while your partner draws the fire. It turns the usual shoot-everything loop into something closer to a plan.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSearch Light\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eNight missions hide targets in the dark until you find and focus them with the searchlight, a job that leaves one pilot exposed while the other does the hunting and rewards teams that coordinate.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eCamouflage\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe paint scheme you choose affects how easily the enemy spots you, so picking the right camouflage for the theatre is a quiet way of avoiding damage before the mission even starts.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA Campaign Across Real Battlefields\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story opens at a fundraiser in 1940s New York, rebuilt in deep period detail, and moves rapidly into war operations with Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, as the squadron follows real events in its search for General Adler and the Ahnenerbe, a secret team of Nazi archaeologists and scientists. From there the missions take Jack and Amelia over Black Canyon and other American locations before crossing to Europe’s real battlefields, from Sicily and Naples through Poland and into Germany, with aerial and ground targets waiting at every stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBuilt for the Arcade Pilot\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling is firmly on the arcade side of the line, with an emphasis on speed and the sense of being in the middle of a dogfight rather than on managing fuel mixtures, so newcomers to flight games can be pulling off their first kills within minutes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull controller support means a pad or a stick feels natural from the first sortie, while keyboard players are catered for too, and the two-pilot switching is a single input away at any moment of the fight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAchievements and leaderboards give the campaign a reason to be flown again, whether you are chasing a cleaner run through a favourite mission or a better score against the tools and orders you used the first time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStrap in with Jack and Amelia, decide who takes the lead on each run, and find out whether your orders hold up when the tracers start flying over Sicily.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naps Team","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":2020891721740,"sku":"PC_199474872332_DL_GL","price":12.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/products\/Iron-Wings-PC-Game-Steam-CD-Key.jpg?v=1519695096"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/en-ch\/collections\/naps-team.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}