Jane's Attack Squadron

by Xicat

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000645WN
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 27, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,275 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #68 in Video Games > PC Games > Simulation > Flight
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Relive the honor, the glory, and the triumph of the greatest aerial fighter sever to grace history books. Join the fray in a sprawling campaign, reenacting the deadliest sky battles in the European Theatre of World War II. Traverse over 1 million square miles of point-to-point accurate terrain as you and your squadron of elite aces strike at the ruthless Axis powers.

Feel the sting of the flak and the rattle of incoming shells with one of the most detailed damage models ever. Test your mettle against fourteen flyable aircraft, each with real 3-D cockpits and fully functioning dials and gauges.

And if you find yourself surrounded by enemies, don't give up. You're not alone. You're part of the Attack Squadron.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One star is too many for this ripoff, September 24, 2003

By 

Jefferson T. Packer (Taos, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jane's Attack Squadron (CD-ROM)

Jane's Attack Squadron gets one star from me only because I can't figure out how to give it zero stars. Putting the "Jane's" name on this turkey is like nailing a Porsche badge onto a half-built Excalibur kit car.

As far as I can tell, here is what happened. About five years ago, Jane's was associated with Electronic Arts. In one of the greatest marriages in flight simulation history, a company with possibly the planet's most talented game designers cooperated with the world's premier source of military equipment data, and produced what will go down in history as one of the greatest combat flight sims of all time, Jane's WWII Fighters.

At some point after the release of that peerless masterpiece, there was a falling out between the two partners. Perhaps somebody from the "Jane's" side spilled coffee into an EA designer's keyboard, or maybe EA started to get jealous of the acclaim Jane's was earning using EA's talent.

Whatever happened, the geniuses took a hike, and now the Jane's name is being tacked onto products (I won't call them "software") that have evidently been designed by hacks, wannabees, moronic nuts and monkeys. With all due respect for monkeys, the Jane's name alone isn't going to raise the prestige of this trash, and in fact junk like J.A.S. is eventually going to pull the Jane's name right down into the gutter.

My advice to Jane's, is if you want to be involved in the PC gaming business, buy some kneepads, suck up your pride, and crawl back to the people who designed WWII Fighters and beg them, bribe them, do whatever it takes, to get them back on board. I know for a fact that programmers and designers can be bribed with stacked boxes of hot Captain Tony's pizza and cold liter bottles of Shasta spiked with Cutty Sark or flat Bartle's & James coolers, which ever happens to be available. Lacking those, a fair and equitable compensation package reflecting the creative talent's true value to your company could be used as a backup plan.

In the meantime, for everyone who craves the feel of piston speed, the rush of wind past your canopy, and the sight of your orange tracers pouring into an FW-190, lighting it up in flame and sending it tumbling into the clouds below, buy, borrow, copy or steal the original Jane's WWII Fighters, load it into your super PC, crank all the sounds and details up to max, and prepare to be awed again and again. The bigger the dogfights, the more WWII Fighters stops looking like a game and the more it starts looking like a masterful aviation painting in motion.

Having said that, why can't I buy it anywhere? My original copy is now a cherished possession that I guard carefully, and if you can find it, it's definitely worth whatever you're willing to pay.

But don't buy JAS. Instead, demand a Pacific version of WWII fighters, designed by the original people or at least people who know code from toejam - we've been waiting more than 5 years for Corsairs and Zeros, COMON JANES, GET IT TOGETHER!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not too good., April 18, 2002

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Redbear52 (Indiana, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jane's Attack Squadron (CD-ROM)

OK, if this was the only combat flight simulation I had ever seen I would think it was pretty cool. For a Jane's flight sim circa 2002 however, it's not too good. The sound, graphics, and gameplay are not only not up to the standards of recent combat flight sims such as IL2 Sturmovik, they are not even up to the standards of prior Jane's flight sims such as WWII Fighters. If you don't have that sim, or Microsoft CFS2, or Sturmovik, or even European Air War,..

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not even worth 1 star!, April 13, 2002

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"littledawg322" (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jane's Attack Squadron (CD-ROM)

Ok I'm serious, don't buy this game, graphics [stunk] (turrents get shot off the plane like lego's, and most of the time the game won't even work on your computer), this has got to be the worst Jane's game ever! probably has to do with this Xicat company that made it... ifs its not electronic arts dont buy it. Don't believe me? check out the official xicat website! cheap website, no patches, and check out the forums, under the main forum (since there is no attack squadron forum yet) u'll see people screaming about the game and how it [stinks]!