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1998 · Xbox Game Studios · Flight simulation · Simulation
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
Microsoft's flight simulators aimed realistically portray life as a commercial pilot for over a decade before combat was added. In this offshoot (pardon the pun) of the series, you are a combat pilot during World War II, for either the RAF, USAAF or Luftwaffe.
- Released
- 1 November 1998
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Flight simulationSimulationWorld War II
- Developers
- Xbox Game Studios
- Publishers
- Microsoft
- Series
- Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- HistoricalWarfare
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- ESRB E
About
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series is the first version of all three combat flight simulation games from Microsoft. It was released on 28 October 1998 and it is set in the European Theatre of World War II. This game spawned two sequels: Combat Flight Simulator 2 in 2000 and Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe in 2002.
Keywords
- world war ii - ww2
- flight simulator
- flight
- airplane
- pilot
- realism
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Combat Flight Simulator features 6 modes, Free Flight, Quick Combat, Single Missions, Campaigns, Multiplayer, and Training Missions.
Free Flight allows players to fly around the entirety of Europe. Quick Combat puts the player into the air against waves of AI opponents. Single Missions are missions where you have to take-off to complete tasks, before landing. Campaigns are more elaborate mission sequences.
Reception
Combat Flight Simulator was a commercial success. It was the United States' 19th-best-selling computer game during the first half of 1999, and totaled 260,708 sales and $10.8 million revenues in the country by that October. The game's defeat of its direct competitor, Jane's WWII Fighters, contributed to the end of Electronic Arts' Jane's Combat Simulations brand.
Global sales surpassed 450,000 copies by June 2000.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Expansions
- Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series - Behind Enemy Lines
- Ported as
- Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series
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Collections3 collections
Genres
- Simulation gamesVehicle simulation › Flight simulation
- World War II gamesFlight simulators › Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator series
Publishers
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