Battle for Midway: Expansion for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1 & 2

by Abacus

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00006307D
• Item Weight: 12 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 26, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,218 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Battle For Midway brings you ten of the most famous U.S. and Japanese planes used in the Midway and the Coral Sea areas and two bonus planes --the twin tailed P-38 Lightning and J7W Shinden "pusher". All planes were created especially for Battle For Midway by noted designer Terry Hill.

Battle For Midway also places you smack in the middle of Midway and the Coral Sea islands. Master mission builder Chris Steele has created the Battle For Midway missions based on actual events of the Coral Sea and Midway Islands in 1942. You'll fly in the uncharted skies to face a relentless enemy all tuned for a high performance.

For CFS1 users only: scenery designer Tim Dickens transforms the enchanting environment of these tropical islands into the unforgiving setting for such a devastating war.

Additionally, Tim has created a set of exploding "mission objects." These finely crafted 3-D enhancements that behave as you'd expect them to in combat--they explode when they're hit with artillery fire. The "mission object" library is another exclusive feature from Abacus. You can use these mission objects in your own missions as well.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Major dissapointment, September 3, 2002

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This review is from: Battle for Midway: Expansion for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1 & 2 (CD-ROM)

The only good thing I can say about this program is that the graphics look good and it did put single missions in the right place with CFS2. Unfortunately, most of it does not work well. For example, when bombing a Japanese carrier I almost landed on the deck before release and yet no damage to either carrier or plane. The program comes with a floppy that is supposed to fix all these bugs. It does not! When I went back to CSF2, I discovered that CSF2 was corrupted to the extent that that I had to remove CSF2 and reinstall it again before CSF2 was working again. I think that I will jsut wait until CSF3 and CSF4 come out. I do not plan to ever use the Midway program again.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Battle for Midway, April 6, 2002

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"fwcvl" (Wesley Chapel, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle for Midway: Expansion for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1 & 2 (CD-ROM)

Instalation was very quick and easy, 2 to 3 button clicks and it was installed to my CFS2 with no problem, I can also install it to CFS1 if I decide to.
After instalation I put my CFS2 disk in and started flying,
Free flight, is good because you can even fly a B-17 off any of the islands, Just make sure your flaps are down and your at max. throtle or you will not get off the run way. All the other sim. aircraft fly very well
The single missions are very good!
You are going to have to enjoy the single mis. only because it won't intergrate with the main missions.
although the single mis. keeps you busy for hrs.
The graphics are good!
All in all I am very pleased.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a fully debugged product, May 28, 2002

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Andy S (Westlake Village, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle for Midway: Expansion for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1 & 2 (CD-ROM)

Installed quicky over a clean install of CFS2. Several missions had major bugs including planes that would not start and missing library files. Other missions were impossible to end even when the mission goals were met (warp disabled) unless you flew manually back to base. Additional problems when you tried to change payload from the default. A frustrating experience, especially when I found no patches at Abacus' website.