Customer Reviews

WWII Fighters

5 star:		(23)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

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!

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)

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!

Let's just say buckle your seat belt and strap on your helmet, because the Krauts are at 2'oclock. It takes a steady hand and nerves of steel to complete your missions. Wing 3 screams in agony and your cockpit malfunctions as tracers of hot steel weld it shut like A flying coffin. The best WWII Flight Sim ever.

I thought that this game would be a flop but it caught my attention right away. The graphics are pretty good, but it's the game play thats the best in this one. It's easy to learn and it'll keep you occupied for hours. You fly amazing planes and they all have their special qualities. The best part is the damage you get. It isn't a game where you crash and die right away; the parts fall off, you start on realistic looking fire, and when you hit the ground you bounce and roll until you come to a complete stop. If you like combat flight sims this ones for you.

this high quality high preformance air combate simulated is increadable realistic with neato grafics. you have the choice of being 1 of 7 classic fighters. experiance the action of the battle of the bulde in the cocpite. this game is a must for all fighter plane lovers. and shred opposition online, down your best freinds in one of these planes: P-51 P-47 P-38 Spitfire Me262 BF 109a-8 FW 190a-8

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.

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!

In terms of graphic effects there is NO game like this one. You can actually SEE the shell casing fall out of the plane wings. Once in a furball I actually saw a piece of my plane fly out in front of me. I look left to confirm it and... my flap was shot off! The damage is real. You can see the holes punched in your plane and your enemies! Sound effects are great as well. I love hearing those 50cals hit the ground and whine as I strafed targets. I would have preferred less of the ground pounder action and more dog fighting but they were trying to be "historical" about it. EXCELLENT game. I am hoping to see a pacific version soon.

This sim came out in 1999 and, given the dearth of simulation/games devoted to WWII since then, it's still a near-cutting edge game.

Though its title makes it sound similar to other "Jane's Fighters" games like ATF or USNF '97 - and despite similar gameplay - the sound, graphics and organization of JWW2F put the game in a class by itself. You can probably guess the premise - fly single missions, campaigns or instant action in your choice of many WWII planes like the Mustang, Me-262 or Spitfire. If you've made short work of your computer's flying abilities, go on-line (though by the time you read this, Janes multi-player support will be long dead) and flame your best friends. The airplanes' exteriors look gorgeous - nowhere near as cartoonish as those on ATF/USNF. The interiors look pretty good to, really conveying the feeling of being inside a (likely) freezing P-51 flying against camouflaged Panzer tanks during the "Battle of the Bulge". If the effect isn't exactly spectacular, it's still an achievement considering that the interiors - like those on USNF/ATF - are really eye-candy: you can turn them on and off, so they're really extraneous. Despite their being unneccessary, EA deisgners decided against making the panels and frames of your cockpit look flat and unconvincing. Get a hit on your engine, and your plane will vibrate or spew oil - and boy will you notice that. Damage is also beefed up since ATF/USNF days, with damaged airplanes more prone to snap in two if forced to fly at the edge of their limits than undamaged airplanes. Different airplanes will fly different ways - I was able to outfly speedy Me-109 fighters as long as I could keep from flying the high-speed vertical maneauvers they favored. The tactic is harder to use against the Me-262, the Nazi's early jet (which will attack in pairs; the trick is to anticipate which of the jets is just leading you on, and which is really about to attack) but not impossible. If the sim has some realism flaws (mind you, I'm no pilot) some are likely unavoidable - like the fact that air combat was never a pure fighter war (for the allies over Europe, it may have been; the Germans contended, on the other hand, with bombers - both light and medium - tactical attack planes, recon fighters and other support craft; the Me-262 itself was never really contemplated as a fighter to fight other fighters, its acceleration and wing-loading made it best only for flying past escort screens and for being able to engage more waves of enemy bombers than older fighters). Velocity is modeled very well, as are the vaporous effects of clouds at different levels, and the fluidity of fire from stricken planes (I mostly saw my own). Ground detail was dissappointing, but this isn't a sim committed to low-level attack, so I was willing to overlook that. In short, sound and graphics make this a still superlative sim - not as demanding as UbiSoft's "IL-2". While you won't be able to import 3rd party airplanes or missions (as you may with Microsoft's CFS series, Janes offers more out of the box than that other game.

Performance: I ran this game with little problem on my Pentium IV, 2Ghz system using WinXP and a Geforce3 card. If you're looking for a great WWII game but feel intimidated by IL-2 (and have heard some bad news re: "Jane's Attack Squadron", I'd consider getting this game.

Janes WWII flight sim just never gets boring.I first bought Microsofts but soon found out where the real battle is.Your in a P-51 chasing the Me-262,you have a tighter turn ratio but the German has the speed. Your about to fire and then,your hit from behind from a Folfwulfs cannon,if your lucky you can bail, if not you go down in a flamming crash.This game is less than half the price of others but I found it much more enjoyable and challenging.Better bang for the buck!