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• gamedeal user

  Nov 8, 2014

  I suggest a quick look at the date released and expect it in graphics.....That being said there are just not many games out here even today that seemed to get all the pieces right as this game has. Tough learning curve with an insane attention to historical detail. I do not know how I missed this game all of these years.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 29, 2015

  Don't pay attention to my playtime, it only counts time in the launcher Great game although old. These sorts of games no longer exist. It resembles Silent Hunter Sub sim with crew managment although if you wish it can also be a hard-core B-17 simulator, down to starting up each individual engine ( the flight physics aren't the most detailed). One problem is that the controls aren''t the least bit intuitive. Imagine trying to start up a B-17 without even having been into one before. Bottom line, I highly recomend this game to anyone that loves Silent Hunter, B-17's or flight sim fans as this will provide for hours of fun.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 14, 2017

  Bombed a target of opportunity which turned out to be the Nijmegen railway bridge. Got court martialled when I got home for hindering the war effort. 11/10.... would blunderingly undermine the war effort again
• gamedeal user

  Jul 14, 2019

  This is a war-time flight simulator with an extraordinary level of detail. However, it has not aged well. I'm sure those playing it again for nostalgia, or those who love a steep, obfuscated learning curve, will have a better time. But for those like me, playing it out of curiosity, it isn't very satisfying. The controls seem undocumented within the game, and the only online resources I could find were three hours of tutorial videos on YouTube (starting with this one, for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMwKq7V0duU). I'm sure it's a lot of fun once you've mastered its complex controls, but the thought of watching hours of tutorials before I could even start playing wasn't the kind of "old video game" experience I was hoping for.
• gamedeal user

  May 28, 2022

  flew a mission to some factory in berlin, got intercepted by 4 109 squads with no escort by my side, sat through 20 minutes of non stop flak, came back home with 2 engines dead and 7 crew (pilot included) wounded 10/10 would feather the wrong prop and accidentally shut off engine 3 again
• gamedeal user

  May 26, 2020

  microprose just announced a remastered version of this game so excite
• gamedeal user

  Jan 22, 2017

  this game to me is still more addicting and fun than a lot of the newly released AAA games on the market, "Not bad for a 16 year-old game eh?" i thought to my self and the best thing about this, is that you don't need a high end PC to play this game, hell even an office computer can run this game very well without any problem. Also i would like to say that this is the only game that really enforced the player to read the manual. with out reading it i bet you will even struggle to find out how to start the mission let alone to control everything the B-17 has to offer... this game is a flight sim and crew management all in one although most people remembers this game for it's hardcore realism, the devs still humble enough to give you plenty of options on how difficult your game can be. you can set the difficulty of this game to a certain degree from your 8 year-old son can play this without a sweat to even a huge challange for veterans of this game. this also makes the game not repetitive and boring after for just a few hours playing it and anything can happen at any moment even if you're playing a very same mission with exactly the same objective not all flights are the same. there are 2 game modes in this game, Historical Campaign and Squadron Campaign. In Squadron you can take control a whole squadron of B17's where you plan your own attacks and set your own waypoints towards your target. to be honest i'm not a huge fan of this game mode because it's rather complicated in my opinion, i think the best is the Historical Campaign where you are in charge of a B-17 in some squadron you pick and you can name your plane and pick your own nose art to even name your crew. But i have to remind you that this mode i think is the most rewarding as well as punishing because you only mind about your aircraft and crew, when your crew gained a lot of experience from missions you start to relate to the crew and treat them as real humans, as weird as this may sounds you'll realize this when one or even more than one of them are KIA/taken as POW then they will be replaced by newly fresh recruit rangeing from skilled to know absolutely nothing, brave to be even a massive coward so my top tip here is to don't use the skip functions too often some times they may be injured in the worst of times (e.g. when you're on your way back crossing the english channel to even sometimes when the airstrip is on sight.) i believe that this game is mainly based on skill, patience and luck (mostly luck) because in this game the scariest thing you will ever encounter is not 109's or even 262's no, but it's actually Flugzeugabwehrkanone commonly known as FLAK ,yes. There is no escape, the best thing you can do is sit tight, tighten up your butt-hole and cross your fingers through the entire FLAK event also bombing runs. anyways i'm rambling in short this game is unique and it stand the test of time better than any game in my opinion and it's unforgiving realisim is what makes this game fun to play but difficult to master. I dare to not count the thousands of hours of playing this game before i created my steam account 2 years ago and even with that thousands of hours experience playing this game i still consider my self a noob. If you are a massive WWII aviation fan and for those of you who interested in Flight Sim, i highly recommend this game, but remember this game have a steep learning curve so you really need to actually learn on how to play this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 24, 2022

  What a fantastic game/simulation. It can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. Want to be the pilot with all the controls and gauges at your disposal? Go for it. Or if you just want to shoot German planes out of the sky, you can do that too. Maybe the bombardier? dropping those lethal payloads. The plane will run itself unless you decide to jump into any of the positions. There's a solo campaign and also a campaign where you can also run a squadron . The graphics are top notch too, although being 22 years old you won't get fullscreen or really high resolutions. Hard to believe this game is 22 years old. Runs like a dream on my pc with Windows 10 and picked up my joystick no problem. I think this game needs to be remade with today technology.. 'Bandits high at 7 o'clock!!' 10/10.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 20, 2021

  The graphics may be aged and dated but this is one that stands the test of time for being great. I bought the original when it came out on floppys and I bought this one too, I just need to get back into it again, after all, I still have the original manual and keyboard command sheet.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 12, 2018

  Absolutely loved this game back in the day. Unfortunately, there are just too many technical incompatibilities between the program and Windows 10. - Despite a couple posts indicating support for higher resolutions, I could not make it work, and I'm pretty tech savvy. The best I could do was 1280x960. - Could not remove the "windowed" frame from the top, cutting off a key area of the game screen which is used to trigger a pull-down panel to switch between crew members. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to go "borderless" or full screen. - Despite owning a similar-era Microsoft Force Feedback 2 joystick (you're jealous, I know), I could not get the program to recognize it, nor any other joystick or gamepad. Perhaps all of these things are Windows 10 problems. Can't be sure. Regardless, it's a unique and fun game if you can make it work. I couldn't, therefore thumbs down.