RC Heli 2

After a solid year of work with Ethervision and iDev2, RC Heli 2 took the best parts of our first RC Heli and RC Plane games and redesigned everything else. The whole game was rebuilt on a new engine, with a more realistic physics simulation: harder at first, but far more satisfying once mastered.

The game comes with two 3-channel helis and one 4-channel heli, Free Flight in a newly designed three-floor house and seven races. A combat mode, seven more helicopters and two RC UFOs, one of them running on "alien physics", are available as in-app purchases.

Features

• New physics simulation
• One universal app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
• 4 control modes, with realistic mapping
• Touch or accelerometer controls
• HD graphics, with optimisations for the iPhone 4 Retina display and the iPad 2 (4x antialiasing and two real-time lights per pixel at a constant 30 fps)
• Free Flight and Race modes
• Combat mode in-app, with its own game mode and two combat helis
• Lots of helis to fly and unlock

Updates

RC Heli 2 was built with expansion in mind, and it kept growing after launch:

• Better controls: larger touch areas with a margin at the screen edges, and adjustable sensitivity for each axis of each stick, saved separately for every heli. All helis also got more stable and realistic physics.
• Multiplayer and new places to fly: a Christmas update brought multiplayer, new environments such as the Gym and the Warehouse, and new helicopters including the 3-channel Shark and the Russian Hind.
• Retina and rotation: a later update added Retina support, screen rotation and iOS 6 support.

RC Heli 2 shares its base engine with RC Plane 2, which let us reuse the menu system, saving, in-app purchases and leaderboards and spend more time on graphics, physics and gameplay.