one of the all time great flight sims...

User Rating: 9 | European Air War PC
what can I say... I love this game... excellent mix of planes... american, british, and german... covering the entire period of the war... pretty good flight characteistics, that can be set for level of realism... and damage modelling is good as well... you'll definitely want a joystick/throttle/rudder combination to squeeze every bit of performasnce out of your plane...I've gone through three just to get the best combo I can find... the graphics are a bit dated, but the planes are beautifully rendered, and occasionally I will be surprised at the level of realism and beautiful panoramas that can be achieved in this directX 6 game... be sure to get the v1.2 patch and you can set the graphics all the way up to 1280 x800... greatly improves the cockpit visuals... set it for dusk with light clouds and fly into a beautiful sunset... quick fly single mission is very flexible for setting up the scenario and weapons configurations, also single player campaign, and multiplayer are all good... this has been my go to game for a quick 10 minute game since it came out... give me a P-38 (4x .50cal machine guns and a cannon!) with a sky full of luftwaffe and I am a happy man... best thing... you can often pick it up in the bargain bin for under 10 clams...