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- Select A Theatre: The different theatres you’ll fly in
covers much of Western Europe: France,
Germany, the Lowlands, and portions of England. The world is
modeled close to the actual terrain,
with plenty of hills and valleys.
- Select Your Mission: The single mission option allows
players to control a single plane
or a group of planes against the computer-controlled
aircraft for a particular type of
mission. The career option lets players select a career
from the British, American or
German perspective in 1943 or from the British or
German perspective in the Battle of
Britain. The tour phases include April 1, 1943 to April
25, 1945 in which players
encounter different types of missions over Britain,
France and Germany and July 10, 1940
to September 15, 1940 in which players experience a
short career from the Battle of
Britain. On the Allied side you have the option of
retiring a favorite pilot after a year, but with the
German side your plilot is in the air until he is dead.
- Types Of Missions: European Air War offers missions
that include up to 256 planes in the air simultaneously
including V-1 hunting,
fighter sweeps, escorts, or even ground attacks against
moving targets (such as armed trains).
- Select Your Aircraft: European Air War offers authentic
aircraft flight models and detailed renderings of all cockpits with
over 20 flyable fighter variants:
P-38H & J, P-47C & D, and P-51B & D for the Americans;
Hurricane,
Spitfire Ia, IX, & XIV, Typhoon Ib, and Tempest V for
the British; and
Me109E3, G6, & K4, Me110C & G, FW190A8 & D9, and Me262a
for the Germans. Non-flyable craft you may encounter in
the game include
the B-17, B-24, and B-26 for the Americans; the
Mosquito for the
British, and the Ju 87, Ju 88A & C, He111, Me410a, and
V-1 “Buzz
Bomb” for the Germans.
- Multiplayer Set Up: European Air War offers
multiplayer dogfights and cooperative missions. 8 players supported on
LAN and TCP/IP, 2 players supported for serial and modem
connections
- Virtual Cockpit Technology: MicroProse's virtual cockpit
technology enables players to
look for enemy planes in any direction, just like a real pilot!
The cinematic replay
editor lets users review their mission from anywhere in the
game world.
- 3D Graphics Technology: European Air War offers support for
3Dfx and Rendition 3D accelerator cards. Graphics modeling is much
improved since Pacific Air War (the reason for the delay of EAW).
- Minimum System Requirements:
133 MHz Pentium with 3-D graphics accelerator
Windows 95 and DirectX 6 (included)
32 MB RAM
Super VGA Graphics (640 x 480 x 256 colors)
Quad-speed CD-ROM drive
Hard drive (5 MB free + 45 MB swap file)
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