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European Air War

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: July 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The problem is that it doens't run on a intel based graphic card. But the helpdesk was really professional.

I got ripped off. Don't buy from this seller.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When looking at the details regarding this game prior to purchasing it, it stated that it had a few scratches that would not interfere with game play. Guess what? Those few scracthes turned out to be enough to prevent me from playing the game at all. Don't trust this seller.

euorpean air wars

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this was really highly reccomended by several but was a major dissapointment=after playing world war 11 fighters I guess I got spoiled=the sound and special effects just were not there.flight control not bad=I have more than enough system requirements to handle any game out there=as I said, a really ho hum game!

READ THIS !!! It might change your mind!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: April 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game, and I expected it to be awesome. I was kind of disappointed.Well, 1st of all, the gameplay was ok. The stability was not so incredibly good. Sometimes the game will shut down after a mission( the missions are ok, but it takes a long time for each 1). It was easy to learn. Multiplayer on the web isnt that great, because NO BODY plays on the internet with this game. Its just too old, which also is the reason for my 3-star rating. The graphics aren't as good as the cover looks, believe me. The smoke from planes is a greenish color. Sounds weird, huh? Well thats the way it is on my computer. I guess I should have considered that this game was made in 1998. Well, I guess this game was good a few years ago, but its just too outdated.

P.S. this game doesn't run on 2000 or ME (it says 95-98 on the box)

Lost Opportunities

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: July 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

You know, its really a shame, this game could have been so much more.

First of all, let's give credit where credit is due. Kudos to Microprose for even including the years 1940, to 1942 in this game. It was refreshing to get something other than the typical egocentric American view on the air war over Europe during WW2.

I loved the graphics, the interface with the mouse for external views is genius, and you can spend hours admiring yourself from near or far.

Sadly, if you are an aspiring "mud mover" for the Luftwaffe in the years 1940, through 1942, you are going to be a frustrated pilot, the promised targets never do appear. There isn't a moving ground target in all of merry old England. Those trucks must have stealth technology or something!

On a final note, don't even attempt to play this game until you have downloaded version 1.2 from Microprose's webpage, out of the box, the so called "AI" in this game is non-existant. Nothing like flying on an intercept for 2 hours in realtime, and finally sight the enemy, only to have your flight leader declare, without attacking,"nice job everyone, let's go home", without firing a shot! Whoo Whoo..really get's the adreline flowing.

After downloading the "version 1.2" patch, this seems to have been fixed, but where are those elusive Brit lorrys?

One of the better flight sim war games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've probably seen all of them from the WWII era, from the old 1942 Pacific air war to IL-2 Sturmovik. This is one of the most entertaining. It flies pretty well and the graphics are almost as good as some of the later ones. It has given me a lot of pleasure.

I rank the best ones as follows: IL-2 (Sturmovik); Janes WWII Fighters; Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (Pacific Theater); Microsoft's Flight Simulator (WWII Europe Series); and finally this one: European Air War,by Microprose.

My ranking is based on quality of graphics, smoothness of manuever with a good computer (mine is a 1.8 Ghz Gateway Pentium 4 with a half-gig of RAM and ATI) and the flight modelingof the aircraft (how close to the real aircraft they are in their performance). My judgment on the latter is based on the fact that I have flown a variety of real prop driven aircraft since I soloed in 1946, as well as many radio-controlled models.

Joseph Pierre, USN (Ret)

Great game, but starting to show it's age

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 23
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a very entertaining game, but with Jane's and Microsoft combat sims on the shelves you'll have to get this game based on it's admittedly superior campaign missions. While the others give you a player to create and follow with promotions and medals and such, it's a lot more fun to follow your pilot with European Air War. The only gripe I have is that technology seems to be leaving this otherwise fine game behind. The scenery in other sims is making this one seem dull. Also while this seems to work fine using an older Pentium with an ATI rage card, a newer Pentium III with a SR9 card (allegedly better) gave enough weird results for me to set the machine to software rendering-which by the way worked just fine. Oh, and the answer is "no"-updated drivers and the patch did nothing. All in all a superior story line, a more entertaining feel, but let's you wish for a little more eye candy.

European Air War

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for the first time last night and I found that this is a fun and very beautiful game to play. With the patch, the game play is very nice and the graphics are great. The only problem that I have found with the game is that it seems to be too easy to shoot down enemy planes.

On my very first mission I (along with 8 or so other spitfires) attacked a German bomber formation of over 20 planes. The excitement of seeing so many targets in the sky at once is awsome! But, on my first pass through the german formation I was able to down 4 HE-111's which seemed way too easy. I may have the realism settings for the weapons or the planes set too easy and this may fix the problem, but it seemed that I only had to barely hit the bomber and it would explode into 1000 pieces. So, in my first mission I downed a total of 7 He-111's and was an ace right off the bat.

Otherwise, the excitement of the game was great and the graphics are stunning, I just need to fix the gun problem and set the target strength up higher (if I can).

Great game! 4 1/2 stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You'll love this game even more with the alternative sound patches. My only complaint about this game is the repetitive missions in campaign mode. Yes, it may be realistic, but I think they could have changed it up a little bit.

This Sim is a Landmark, the Gaming Press & Sim Fans Agreed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 42 / 43
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The above review, (while the reviewer is entitled to his own opinions of course,) does not reflect the critical acclaim won by this simulation generally. To me, and many others, It still stands unchallenged as the best WWII air combat simulation to date. With a second patch (V 1.2) available which improves it even further, plus the two excellent freeware programs ('Enemy Coast Ahead!' and 'Meatwater's Sound pack,') readily available for download on the internet, I am still playing this sim over a year after its release. It is vastly superior to its competition, and one of the finest simulations ever made.

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