Jane's WWII Fighters Download PC

Jane's World War II Fighters is a World War II era European Theater of Operations Combat flight simulation video game. It is part of the Jane's Combat Simulations franchise. The game was considered a commercial failure, and contributed to the end of the Jane's Combat Simulations line.

Gameplay

The game is set during the U.S. American termed "Battle of the Bulge" in 1944 and 1945. The game featured famous fighter aircraft from World War II. It also featured a virtual museum, where aircraft profiles, interviews with fighter pilots such as George Unwin, Günther Rall, and others could be viewed.

Reception

Sales

Jane's WWII Fighters was released in direct competition with Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, and became a commercial flop. In 1999, Computer Gaming World reported that the game "appears to have been murdered by Microsoft's brand recognition." Its lifetime sales in the United States reached 60,943 copies by October 1999, which drew revenues of $2.58 million. Speaking anonymously to Bruce Geryk of GameSpot, an ex-staffer for Origin Systems remarked that the game "spent some serious cash, and did not sell." He attributed its failure to Combat Flight Simulator's dominance of the World War II flight simulation field during 1998, and called WWII Fighters' performance "the death knell for Jane's products", after which the brand unraveled. Following the May 2000 bankruptcy of Jane's Attack Squadron developer Looking Glass Studios shortly before that game's completion, Electronic Arts declined to finish the project, and instead opted to exit the flight simulation genre.

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