Combat Flight Simulator 2

The sequel to Microsoft's first Combat Flight Simulator, the focus shifts to the Pacific theater, where carrier battles and island hopping dominate the strategy.

Released: 2000
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Flight simulation Simulation World War II
Developers: Xbox Game Studios
Publishers: Microsoft
Series: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: First person Third person
Themes: Historical Warfare
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB E

About

Combat Flight Simulator 2: WW II Pacific Theater is a combat flight simulator game by Microsoft released in October 2000 for the Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. The game takes place in the Pacific War and includes campaigns loosely based on historic air battles, from the American and Japanese perspective. A sequel, Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe, was released in 2002.

Keywords

world war ii - ww2
flight simulator
flight
pilot
realism

Media

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Gameplay

The game includes American planes F4F-4 Wildcat, F6F-3 Hellcat, F4U-1A Corsair, P-38F Lightning and Japanese planes A6M2 Zero, A6M5 Zero, N1K2 George.

Reception

In the United States, Combat Flight Simulator 2 debuted at #11 on PC Data's computer game sales rankings for October 2000. It remained in the monthly top 20 through the end of the year.

In 2001, Combat Flight Simulator 2 achieved domestic sales of 285,728 units for revenues of $13.1 million, according to PC Data.