Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17765 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 7890
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• Combat flight simulator set in WWII
• Great graphics and sound
• Custom challenge levels and multiple gameplay modes
• Lots of extras
• For 1 player

Amazon.com Product Description
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.

Customer Reviews

"Iceman"
Great game! My favorite is the P-51 Mustang! Realistic aircraft. Excellent graphics. Single mission option allows you to do flight training, i.e., landing, takeoff and navigation. In addition you can fly training missions in strafing, bombing and firing rockets at targets with on-screen instructions. When you get comfortable with these missions (if you're a new-comer) you can progress to actual missions on specific campaigns or build your own personal missions, if you like. I've tried MS Combat Flight Sim, Figher Aces and a couple of others. I've yet to see a WWII Fighter game that tops this one! You can't go wrong with it, especially at this price!

This one is the best available

I think I've tried them all, and this is my favorite combat flight simulator that portrays aircraft of the WWII era. It has outstanding graphics, and the flight characteristics of the individual aircraft are modeled realistically within the necessary constraints of the game. It is meant to be fun, after all.

I like Navy fighter planes (the F4F, F6F and F4U)with their big radial engines. They are not available in this game, which is based in Europe and features the U.S. Army Air Corps, the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force. Nevertheless, for graphics and just plain flying fun, this game is hard to beat.

In this one, you can fly the P-51, P-47, P-38, Spit, Bf-109, or FW-190. You can also check out their cockpits and specs, get some history of that ancient conflict (can it actually have been 60 years ago? Seems like yesterday!). Jane's has long been the definitive source for information on planes, ships and armaments. It is appropriate that the best combat sim around has their name on it.

I run an AMDK6-2 (350) CPU, Diamond Monster 3D II video accelerator, Flight Stick Pro with rudder pedals, and only 64 Mbs of RAM. The game loaded and played well from the very beginning, though my setup is minimal by most gamer's standards.

I have some experience with full-sized aircraft (I soloed in 1946) and radio-controlled models. These games are fun! When you get a little experience, there are even on-line combat flying games (Air Warrior is a good one) in which you can fly against real people.

This game, by Electronic Arts, and Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator II (Pacific Theater) are the tops in my opinion for entertainment and excitement, as well as top graphics and flight modeling. Microsoft's game was a bit more picky getting it to run smoothly. Graphics are comparable. This game is my first choice.

Joseph Pierre, USN (Ret)

One Of The Best Simulators I've Played!
Easy to learn to fly & very stable in the air. The graphics & sound are very good, even better than most $30 games!

There is a unique tracking toggle that displays a small picture of the object you are tracking in realtime, plane, vehicle or structure, which is really great to see your attack's aftermath. It also has "non-drone" mobile ground targets, even soldiers in motion. the graphics & sound effects from dropping a bomb are great!

The only draw back (hence the lack of the fifth star) is the short list of Axis fighters to fly but atleast they chose among the best ones to fly.

For the price I paid (half what most sim's go for) I was expecting down scale & got a shock when I saw just how good it was! I'm hope there is a sequel!