No 2D panels here: strictly virtual cockpits all the way, with an adjustable point of view if you so desire. Different rooms will lead you to either campaign play, single missions, or the mission editor.Īmazingly enough, the cockpits inside the planes you fly look as real as the rendered planes on display in the museum. Interesting stuff, but unsatisfactorily short. Interesting commentary is available from the war's surviving aces, including two German pilots.
There is also an option to test-fly the airplane right away, something we all wish we could do at such museums in real life. Each flyable plane is on display, showing off Jane's knowledge of the era's aircraft as well as offering playable video footage taken from the war, showing the plane in action. It's definitely a unique approach and works quite well. Similarities end once you've seen the interface: Jane's created an incredibly detailed virtual museum that looks as though they spent as much time rendering it as they did programming the game itself. World War 2 Fighters hits you with that Big Band era music at the start, just like EAW. When running in all its 3D-accelerated glory, the sheer "wow" factor of WW2F at times actually delivers a better "you are there" feeling than the competitors. The flight model might not be as good as the one found in CFS, and the missions might not engender the role-playing attachment one gets to a pilot when playing EAW, but the visual quality of WW2F is stunning. You've never seem a sim like this before, and you're not likely to see anything as pretty again for quite sometime to come - at least, not until next time this year.
But whatever concessions WW2F may make in areas of realism, it more than makes up for when it comes to the visuals and atmosphere. While survey sims can have some appeal for the most purist of computer combat pilots, it's obvious the moment you padlock your first enemy plane that this game is targeting a much broader audience. Appearing on store shelves after Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator and Microprose's European Air War, Jane's World War II Fighters completes the triumvirate known as this holiday season's "Big Three." WW2F is another classic example of the "survey" type of simulation for which producer Paul Grace is well known (as opposed to the more hardcore "study" simulation so often found coming from Jane's other sim figurehead, Andy Hollis).
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