WWII Fighters
by Electronic Arts
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Product Summary
Brand: Electronic ArtsFormat: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me
Model: 7890
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Product features:
- Combat flight simulator set in WWII
- Great graphics and sound
- Custom challenge levels and multiple gameplay modes
- Lots of extras
- For 1 player
Video Game Reviews of WWII Fighters
Customer Review: Simply the Best
Summary: 5 Stars
The Golden Era of PC-based flight simulation began with Microprose F19 Stealth Fighter, and it ended with Falcon 4.0. As a real pilot who has played every single flight sim worth playing for the last 25 years, I'm comfortable saying that Jane's WWII Fighters is in the top 3 of all time, period.
It is worth installing a W98 emulator on your modern PC so that you can have the experience of flying this sim. Quite simply, if you want to do what the real WWII fighter pilots did - search the skies for the enemy, get shot at by flak guns, strafe trains and other ground targets and get into frantic, adrenaline-pumping dogfights with steely-eyed Germans over hostile territory, this sim puts you in that place like nothing before or since.
The airplanes have just the right combination of realistic flight model, available systems and visual/audio effects to be entertaining without being overwhelming to the non-pilot. The AI is challenging enough to give you a workout, but also makes you want to dogfight real people online - something that I did for years and that was absolutely the height of PC-based air combat.
Finally, the Mission Creator was the ultimate geek tool. Using it, you could craft unbelievably realistic WWII flying missions that involved takeoffs, landings and everything in between from escorting bombers to bombing things yourself, all while being fired at by Wirbelwinds, 88's and German aircraft. I can still remember the thrill of dogfighting the Me-262 in a P-51 and reminding the Germans that (in the words of Chuck Yeager,) "it isn't the machine, it's the man."
The days when we were hoping for Jane's to release the Pacific version of this stellar and incomparable sim are long gone. Jane's died as a PC flight simulation maker, along with basically everyone else except for a few 800 lb gorillas like Microsoft. At this point, all we can do is hope that SOMEONE recognizes what a great sim this is, and decides to update it for XP. It happened with Falcon 4.0, and it would really be worth doing with Jane's WWII Fighters.
Description of WWII Fighters
Great flight-simulation visuals and white-knuckled air combat are featured in WWII Fighters by Electronic Arts. Fierce dogfighting action, an intense combat environment, and realistic flight models make this game thrilling and challenging. WWII Fighters offers detailed damage models, flaming debris, swarms of aircraft, desperate radio chatter, and more to put you right in the action. Play a full campaign on either the Axis or Allied side. There are up to eight pilots in multiplayer mode for both cooperative and competitive missions, and 40 single missions with a full mission editor and quick mission creator. Custom tune the game options to increase or decrease difficulty, letting you fine-tune your game experience to meet your desired level of challenge. Take a tour of the interactive museum before flight. Walk around each exquisitely rendered aircraft and hear the curator narrate references from Jane's Information Group Ltd. See video interviews with WWII aces and newsreel footage of combat, all composed in a high-poly count, 3-D environment with a swing-music soundtrack. Beautiful graphic detail takes full advantage of the 3-D technology of today and tomorrow. Effects bring the action to life with clouds, explosions, smoke, fire, muzzle flash, shadows, cockpit damage, 3-D in-game cockpits, time of day, flak, lens flare, and extraordinary terrain and cultural object detail. There's a flight school for novices, featuring training missions for takeoff, landing, bombing targets, shooting, rocket firing, dive-bombing, and strafing. New players can adjust the difficulty level in the game options to meet their own requirements.Flight Games
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