FirePower for Microsoft Combat Simulator 3

by Tri Synergy

Product Features

• Add-on for Microsoft Combat Simulator 3
• Over 50 historical missions and 12 new aircraft
• Experience revolutionary special effects, and realistic aircraft and weapons
• Based on authentic military test data and combat footage
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0001MBCE0
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 5, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,393 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

With FirePower for Microsoft Combat Simulator 3, you experience air combat like never before in over 50 missions. We have added twelve new aircraft that were designed with the help of over thirty real warbird pilots.

You will also experience revolutionary, explosive, special effects like never before. Witness towering explosive blasts, aircraft being torn in half, and smoke drifting thousands of feet above the battlefields.

Using authentic military test data and combat footage was the design team's primary focus. Under the hood, you will find every aircraft, building, and vehicle reacting precisely as they did when you unleash all of the newly designed weapons. Specific targets will require specific weapons, just like the real thing.

You will also get to fly the famous B-17 Flying Fortress, man all of the gunner positions, and even attack those bomber formations from the cockpit of some of Germany's most ingenious, flying machines.

Shrapnel will fly, tanks will blow, and guns will shred their targets to pieces. In fact FirePower is so real, you may find all you ever do is attack anything that has the misfortune of crossing your sights.

Product Description

With FirePower for Microsoft Combat Simulator 3, you experience air combat like never before in over 50 missions. We have added twelve new aircraft that were designed with the help of over thirty real warbird pilots. You will also experience revolutionary, explosive, special effects like never before. Witness towering explosive blasts, aircraft being torn in half, and smoke drifting thousands of feet above the battlefields. Using authentic military test data and combat footage was the design team's primary focus. Under the hood, you will find every aircraft, building, and vehicle reacting precisely as they did when you unleash all of the newly designed weapons. Specific targets will require specific weapons, just like the real thing. You will also get to fly the famous B-17 Flying Fortress, man all of the gunner positions, and even attack those bomber formations from the cockpit of some of Germany's most ingenious, flying machines. Shrapnel will fly, tanks will blow, and guns will shred their targets to pieces. In fact FirePower is so real, you may find all you ever do is attack anything that has the misfortune of crossing your sights.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as great as they are saying?, March 15, 2005

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Jason W. Blanton (Groveport, Oh United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FirePower for Microsoft Combat Simulator 3 (CD-ROM)

I know, they (pc gamer, gamespot, etc...) are talking this sim to be something great and in all respects it is but when you compare it with the other great WWII combat sims (IL2)for intance, it does not even come close. The authenic nature of this game is unbeatable in gun sounds and bomb effects but that is about it. If you like to blow stuff up this is the add-on for you considering the original game was a horrible combat flight sim lacking and unfinnished in so many areas it was not funny!

The great thing is you can use the atom bomb in the superfortress which I have yet to find on the CD but really you get four times more of a sim with IL2 with it's expansion packs and user-made levels and you get 10 times more planes to fly and the effects and graphics are even better in some cases as this title. Sure you don't have the bomb cam but if you look at the ground after unloading a 1000 lb bomb from a German JU bomber you will see the aftermath, maybe not as great but acceptible to say the least. Plus there is really a lack of dog fight them that makes IL2 what it is.

In all, I wish they would not try to lift up Microsoft so much because obviously they could not contend with a foriegn developer as the Russian's have them beat this time with IL2 and the expansion packs Ace, Pacific Fighters. B
ut there is hope for WWII flight sim's made in America, wait until Rowan's Battle of Britain II comes out hopefully this April 2005. What I've seen, this sim might just give both of these sims a run for their money. We'll see.

4.0 out of 5 stars Buy it now, October 18, 2007

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L. Hall (San Antonio, Texas) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FirePower for Microsoft Combat Simulator 3 (CD-ROM)

If you bought CFS3 you must have this add on. Makes a world of difference when you add it to CFS3.

Shoot 'em up at its finest!

5.0 out of 5 stars Why is this so expensive?, November 18, 2005

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P. Brooks "games fun" (Seattle. WA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FirePower for Microsoft Combat Simulator 3 (CD-ROM)

I am really looking to pick up this add on, I had played it at a buddies house nd he had bought it NEW for $30. Why is it so expensive here, shouln't it be the opposite?