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Summary: Hey, not so fast...
Review: ...It is still difficult to fly and even experienced simmers would be advised to start with the "novice" flight model. The AI is a lot better than in, say, CFS2 but it's not perfect. The best thing to do is to get the aftermarket patch form BDG (Battle of Britain Developers Group) which solves almost all the problems whilst improving the graphics and gameplay and is a free download. Check at SimHQ.com for details. The overall improvements to the game, along with the dynamic campaign, suddenly make this worth having...as long as you're prepared to spend a lot of time setting it up.
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Summary: rare and hard to find. a great game
Review: a little hard to install but a great flt sim
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Summary: Not All It Was Built Up To Be
Review: A major disappointment for a flight simulation game. If you like combat flying a much better bet is Microsoft's CFS. You can do much more with it and there is a lot of add-on activity that is really good. With CFS you can develop missions yourself and put in lots of aircraft with loads of action. I've done a whole series of missions about the English and Dutch during the early days of WWII and we have much, much more fun with them than with the BOB simulation. In fact it now sits on the shelf unused!
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Summary: Massive let down
Review: After reading all the major reviews like avault.com and gamespot.com I was expecting a fun, engrossing, exciting flight sim about the historical battle of Britain. I was severely disapointed. I have a Wingman 3D joystick and even after alot of calibration the controls were still a little ify. The graphics were nothing special, the planes had reasonably good rendering the ground was a flat texture tiled over and over hundreds of time which is to be expected but still disapointing. The only real fun i could find besides taking my Spitfire into huge drones of Luftwafe bombers was playing the gunners on the German bombers. This was loads of fun. You can play as a tail gunner, top, belly, and front gunner. The interface for the campaigns(the primary portion of the game) was dificult to understand and took a lot of getting used to , and most controls were not exactly intuitive. Overall the game has strong and weak points but on the whole you would be better off buying a Jane's flight sim over this one. By the way don't even try this game if you don't have a joystick it is unbearable.
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Summary: Excellent Flight Sim...
Review: BoB is the best Flight Sim I have ever played...For my comparison I also own MSFS 2002(Microsoft Flightsim),
IL-2 Sturmovik and Mig Alley, which I love too...but I find myself playing with BoB most of my time Some people found there to be a problem with stutter, I have been lucky in this repect...has I never had this problem ! But if you find that you do then the BDG (BoB Developer Group) has fixes and suggestion to run the game at its optimum :) You can also find usefully information and Mods (Fixes/Texture/skinning/models)
... The BDG also has its own site, with the latest news: ... Note* the BDG is a free not for profit group, who are just happy developing BoB to new levels. The BDG formed after Rowan released the sourse code to the public so that they could make modifications etc in the code... I'm a member of the BDG and that is possible why I give it 5 stars rating ! But just try it you'll see that I'm right :)
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Summary: The BEST WWII flight sim!!!
Review: DO NOT, I Repeat, Do Not pay any attention to the reviewers that said this game [is bad] or doesn't work! This IS the best WWII flight sim. I have WWII fighters, CFS I&II, European Air wars, and many others. This beats them all. More Authentic, Larger battles, great graphics, and many more perks. Not only can you fly the Spitfire, Hurricane, ME 110, and ME 109, but you can fly the Ju87 Stuka and be a gunner on the other German Bombers.The ONLY thing that could have been a little better is the sound, but the sound is fine and better than most sims. If you have not already, BUY THIS GAME! You WILL NOT be sorry!
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Summary: Battle of Britian scores a hit!
Review: Don't believe the reviewers that say the game doesn't work. I found that to be true at first. Then I went to the Talonsoft webpage and downloaded FAQ and patch. The patch wasn't needed, but the FAQ clued me in that my machine's settings were way too low. Beware, you will need a higher end machine--1078X840 whatever, is required at minimum to run the game. Resetting to that solved all the problems and man does the game run smooth. Lots of planes in the air, chatter, and gorgeous graphics. I don't usually like flight sims. I have a hard time with them. So, the ability to lock out "true" aerodynamics is a must for me to enjoy it. B-o-B has a "novice" setting that allows this, yet keeps the unique nature of the planes a game factor. Brit planes stall out in dives (no fuel injectors), Germans don't (injected). You can also set the various settings for unlimited ammo vs. limited, backout, whiteouts (glare)etc. The views take a bit getting used to (can see why that Mustang bubble top is a big plus later in the war) and that is why I don't usually like flight sims; but this one is functional completely from the joystick. A ten button joystick is best but my 8 button works fine (but no airbrake, dang). I like the game alot. I like Red Baron 3d but did not like Rowan's other game I bought (Mig Alley). Guess I just like prop action--a little slower than jets. But don't be lulled--those Spitfires and Focke Wulfs really move! Don't hesitate to buy this one--just be sure to get the FAQ from Talonsoft's website (and the patch if you have graphic cards problems)
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Summary: Be ready for the learning curve
Review: First, the people who have this game at the bottom of their closets are right. Unless you have just the right vid card, monitor, and memory you can forget it. Second, what comes in the box is incomplete. You will need the version .973 from the Battle of Britain Developers Group. There is no key card (CFS@ comes from Amazon with no manual or card) so you will have to get on the forum there and ask where to download the most up to date, and then you will have to deal with the the fact that the European keyboard needs to be hand marked to match yours, if your from the USA. On the plus side the people on the forum are very helpful. You will find the learning curve daunting. If you want to fly Spitfires and you start learning on them, you will probably fail. You need to master the Hurricane first. The flight sim is harder than CFS2 and IL-2. B-17 has a tough learning curve but that has to do with it's complexity and all its quirks. BoB has a tough curve because of the flight sim. I've been "flying" sims since Lucas Films BoB. Then the Dynamix trio and the stuff from Microprose (all DOS). Picking up again a few years ago in Windows I found that much has changed. But I have yet to meet a learning curve as steep as BoB. My copy too sat at the bottom of the closet until my old machine fried and I had to get a new one. So far I haven't had the CtD problem, but if I do it will be back to the BoBDG forum. You have to be really interested in the Battle of Britain to buy this one. So don't buy unless your frustration level is high. Of course the BoB add on for CFS2 is a joke (misnamed for one), and I don't know of any others. 30+ at angels ten bearing 261 degrees
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Summary: Super War Game for Super Players
Review: Got started this week after buying a joystick-thought it would make gaming easier. Have found BOB to have great potential, but poor printed instructions that just don't tell you "what to do"....Got a lot of "flying" concepts- but no help whatsoever on hjow to land, what to do omnce you get a plane in the sky--and nothiong about how you keep it there! Same complaint about a lot of adult games. They assume you know the recipes and the sequences to follow....A fortune will be made by someone who translates BOB into down to earth lingo for us smart grown-ups who cannot figure it all out.
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Summary: No super computer? No play...
Review: I am going to be selling back this game, or I guess just selling it used immediately, and I bought it this afternoon. I am running a 500 mhz P3, and even on the lowest settings (akin to the original gameboy) I can barely run it. The 366mhz suggested minimum is bull. Very disappointing game. Even when I did play it slowly on much higher detail settings, vastly disappointing.
I regret this purchase. Waste of my time.
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