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The second WWII flight simulation in the series, Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2: WWII Pacific Theater focuses on the action between Japanese and U.S. Fighter pilots in the Pacific.
Like the earlier Microsoft Combat Flight Sim WWII Europe Series, extensive effort was devoted to making all aspects of this game as realistic and historically accurate as possible. The planes, locations, and missions are all based on actual battles and events. Several extensive interviews were conducted with both Japanese and American pilots in an effort to provide the game with an honest cultural context and a realistic feel. Players have several mission options and many planes from which to choose, including the American P-38F Lightning, F4F-4 Wildcat, F6F-3 Hellcat, and F4U-1A Corsair or the Japanese A6M2 Zero, A6M5 Zero, and NiK2 George. Microsoft invested considerable effort to make the planes look, sound, and behave as much like the real thing as possible. Like most flight sims from the company, Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 is ready to accept expansion packages and add-on missions with minimal difficulty.
These are often available for sale in stores or for free online, developed by third-party companies and ambitious gamers. It has been a long time since 'Pacific Air War' allowed us to chase Zeros and torpedo carriers. In the intervening years we have had numerous visits to European skies, escorting B-17s across a hostile Germany, or pounding tanks in the Ardennes. We have abandoned our old warbirds and conducted low-level strikes on Iraqi airfields during Desert Storm and strafed Egyptian Migs in the Six Day War. The Pacific Theatre even gained a jinx - it was supposedly commercial death. The Wide Blue Yonder Now Microsoft have shown us what we were missing. In a brilliant but flawed sequel to their original Combat Flight Simulator, Microsoft have given us a good sim that, like 'Falcon 4', has the capacity to become a great one.
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For the price of a good dinner for two you get over a hundred hours of intense enjoyment in a box, with the promise of many more to come thanks to the attentions of the hordes of modellers, designers and mission builders that support the Microsoft flight simulators as a hobby (see CFS2 Online for some examples). The game contains seven different flyable fighters - the F4F Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F4U Corsair and P-38 Lightning for the Americans, and the A6M2 and A6M5 Zeros and the N1K2 George for the Japanese.
Although some of these aircraft are equipped with rockets and bombs, the clear emphasis of the game is on fighter combat. All the single missions in the game involve shooting down other aircraft, and so do most of the campaign missions. None of the flyable aircraft carry torpedoes, and bombing without bombsights is at best a nod in the direction of ground attack. Fighter Aces What it does it does very well though. Flight models are good, enhanced by several post-release fixes.
Aircraft are accurately modelled and have very noticeably individual flight models; you will not be able to out-turn a Zero or Oscar, and you will not be able to outrun a Corsair. This means that pilots will have to adapt their flying to their aircraft and that of the enemy. It is possible to down four Zeros in a Corsair, but only if you keep to the historically accurate tactics used by the pilots of the day.
Try any fancy aerobatics and the much nimbler Zeros will be all over you. The aircraft in the game are simply beautiful, and the first time you see your plane it will take your breath away. As you start the engine it coughs smoke and the propeller gradually fades into a blur, although it's a blur that clearly changes with your throttle setting. As you add power you will start to move, your landing gear compressing as the wheels bounce over the coral surface of the island runway. With US aircraft inbound you open your canopy in case you have to bail out, then retract flaps and gear to gain speed and height. As you spot the bandits you switch to the outstanding padlock view (with working instruments) that quickly lets you bring your guns to bear.
In another realistic touch, your guns and cannon will fire independently, allowing you to conserve vital cannon shells until you can guarantee a hit. From the methanol/water emergency power injection to the stunning flak bursts that will knock you into the water, this game breathes realism. That isn't to say that it is inaccessible for beginners, and Microsoft clearly hope to use the image of sexy aircraft over the beautiful islands of the Pacific to draw more people into flight simulators. There are a number of optional features specifically aimed at beginners, from a simple 'radar' to a cone that points in the direction of the nearest bandit for those confused by padlock views.
Expandability Is King Combat Flight Sim 2 was clearly built to expand beyond the shipped product; Microsoft are well aware that the support of the flight sim community has increased the value of their previous products several times over. Acronis true image 2014 winrar file download. Already there are a dozen new planes and scenery add-ons that allow you to dogfight over Crete or the Alps, or to land on a modern carrier. More importantly, they allow you to fly the torpedo bombers and dive bombers that were the true heart of the air war in the Pacific.
The ability to dive-bomb a Japanese carrier or to sink cargo ships hiding in the lee of small islands adds a lot to the game. Add-on scenery and aircraft clearly vary a great deal in quality and functionality though, and while that Catalina may look great, it still won't land in water! As well as aircraft and missions, the recent issue of the software developers kit has allowed talented designers to add even more to the game. Ship wakes have been lengthened, fires improved, flak and gun effects updated. Flight models are constantly tweaked as designers argue about the amount of lift a Wildcat with two bombs and full flaps should have. Even the novice-friendly cartoon style game interface can be replaced.
All of this makes a good game very special indeed. Not Quite Perfect In addition to the planes 'missing' from the shipped version of Combat Flight Sim 2 and the need to download updated flight models to get the most from the game, there are a few other minor issues that prevent it from achieving the highest marks though.
Wingman commands, though present, are few and inefficient. You cannot use the padlock view on friendly aircraft or ships, just the enemy, and targeting them requires flicking through all the planes in the sky to get to the one you want - there is no way to simply select the one right in front of your nose. Finally the yellow targeting box has thus far resisted the best efforts of the community clamouring for its removal.
Multiplayer is also a source of great disappointment for hardcore gamers. In fact there is only one mode, the free-for-all dogfight, with the caveat that pilots can naturally team up based on their choice to fly US or Japanese aircraft. This works well enough, especially as the link to the MSN Gaming Zone comes pre-installed, but while new players may be satisfied with it, experienced pilots will search in vain for more satisfying cooperative missions. Conclusion Microsoft have learnt a great deal from the poorly received 'Combat Flight Simulator', and its sequel is a polished dogfighter that is on the cusp of achieving excellence through the many add-ons it has already received. It manages to incorporate a good deal of realism in a mass market framework, and deserves to do very well.
One of the game's greatest strengths though is quite simply the Pacific Theatre setting - there is next to no competition here, and the game does a lot to teach you how it feels to turn in for that critical run at the enemy carrier. People who downloaded Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater have also downloaded:, ©2018 San Pedro Software Inc. Contact:, done in 0.002 seconds.
Release Date: October 28th 1999: Game Type: Action Flight Sim Image Format: BIN/CUE Data Tracks: 1 Audio Tracks: 0 Protection: SafeDisc Best System Requirements: Pentium 233, 32 MB RAM, 200M HD Supports: N/A Main Features: SSI's Flanker 2.0 Russian combat flight simulator features stunning graphics and streamlined playability - without compromising the technical excellence of its famous predecessor! Fly the Su-27 Flanker using a new 3D graphics engine and improved flight dynamics - or take off from the deck of Russia's Admiral Kuznetzov aircraft carrier in your new Su-33. From the interactive training sessions to the ultra realistic flight model, this premier combat flight sim is a white-knuckle Russian rush for novice and expert alike! Game Features:. 3D graphics engine using full texture-mapped terrain. Aircraft: Su-33 Naval carrier-based Flanker. 3D sound system with shift and Doppler effects.
Campaign Mission module includes resource management, realistic enemy engagement and save now/play later mission save system. Mission editor allows the user to create a realistic theater of operation. Interactive training modules - complete with an in-cockpit instructor. Highly detailed 3D ships, aircraft and ground vehicles As always, copy the Cracked EXE over to the game dir. PASSWORD: 'theisozone'.
The P-55 Ascender, nicknamed the Ass-ender Regulars of World War II flight sims might be surprised to find several experimental planes that are featured as part of a fictitious extension of the war, including the American P-55 Ascender (right image) and British Vampire jet fighter. Bombers are the newest asset to the series, of which you’ll find the B-25 Mitchell and B-26 Marauder heavy bombers, and the famous Ju-88 ‘Stukka’ dive bomber on the German side – notable bombers missing in action number the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator and Avro Lancaster. The bombing missions as a whole are good, allowing you to jump between turrets and stations. Flight modelling in CFS3 is likewise convincing, with varying roll rates, acceleration, maximum speeds and such according to each plane. On the lowest realism setting – there are three in all, which correspond to overall difficulty – the game feels more like an arcade experience with rather stiff controls, while on the highest setting one can barely reach Mach 1 without ripping a wing off. A good many tutorials and eight canned missions have been included alongside a customizable quick mission mode – anything from attacking an airfield to going one-on-one against another plane in a dogfight is permitted here.
The campaign is by far the most complex and will require the most time investment. Missions are generated along the front, and completing them will earn you enough prestige points to launch a ground offensive. A successful offensive will push back the front line into enemy territory, bringing the player’s nationality one step closer to victory. It takes a substantial number of prestige points to launch a successful ground offensive, and while it functions as a solid reward for good performance, the missions themselves seldom feel rewarding. During the entire course of these operations you have to manage your own squad of pilots – as they gain experience, you can allocate points to upgrade skills such as vision, G-force tolerance and health. And that’s how you do it. As is the case with most Microsoft products, controlling the program takes a bit of getting used to.
The multitude of keys scattered everywhere and divided into multiple sub-sections give an ample grip on the action once you can memorize the more essential parts. Notably useful keys allow you to hide the virtual cockpit and bring up the five essential gauges – airspeed, heading, virtual horizon, altitude and vertical speed – for a more arcade feel, or the option to change the field of view, target or padlock both enemy and friendly planes. So while the oodles of options may seem bewildering at first, they really do allow for a great deal of control. People who’ve played the first and second CFS will find much to like here as long as they can swallow the odd AI glitch and graphical bugs.
Even after patching they still seem to pop up on a regular basis, be it in the form of misplaced or missing textures, buggy cloud sprites or whatnot. In one instance I’ve had the menu scene literally explode when I’ve selected different planes to fly in a solo mission. The frequency of the bugs alone gnaw at one’s enjoyment over time, just keeping CFS 3 from being the best game of the series. System Requirements: Pentium 233 MHz Processor, 32 MB RAM, Windows 95/98/ME.
It had to happen sooner or later. I'm running Windows 10 on a separate HD from my trusty Win7 setup. This is not an upgraded setup, it's a new, clean install for evaluating the new OS.
Yesterday I got CFS3 installed from scratch on my Windows 10 hard drive and the installation went smoothly. CFS3 won't run in Windows 10. It doesn't seem to know how to look for the CD to authenticate the install each time it runs. FS9 users have reported the same problem with their CDs. The answer is well known to many of us, and it's the no-CD patched version: CFS3 starts and runs with that every time. I don't see any reason ETO, MAW and the rest shouldn't also work that way. As many of us also know, discussion of this patch on SOH is barred as a longstanding policy.
Please refer to Tom Clayton's post in the for the reasons and do any file hunting away from SOH. Edit: Recent updates borked that too, see hypercide's post (#13) below for the current answer. I'm now not getting CFS3 to run in Windows 10 at all. Oh bother.Hi Hairyspin, I'm having the same problem with Win10 and my half-dozen or so installs.
Discovered I couldn't run Pat's BoB yesterday. Solution: set up to WinXP SP3 compatibility mode by right clicking on the cfs3exe and going into properties. Suspect: Sodding recent Win 10 update. These are now forced on us with no user choice. I could start ranting about how we are now, as owners of PCs and payers for the privilege of MS software, held HOSTAGE to our software and the software CONTROLS access to our own sodding hardware!! Switch on PC for a quick flight or to test something, and in the background PC performance grinds down as background updates for innumerable things occur, even when I try to disable them in the Startup menu.grumble rant rave. Incidentally I was running CFS3 installs directly on my root pathway to D: drive.
Now I've created a Program files (x86) additional folder in my D drive for cfs3 installs, can't see any difference really, but maybe running cfs3 would be better if install is outside of program files folder, like I had originially?? Given the problems (speculative) with Win10 upgrades. Hi folks, Bought CFS3 from old-games yesterday because I wanted to buy WOFF. Initially no joy under Win 10 Home, with XP SP3 compatibility mode, running as Admin-the only suggestions I could find on the net.
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Then, in a what-if kind of moment, I toyed with the 'Settings' options under the Compatibility tab in the cfs3.exe Properties. I've enabled 'reduced color mode' at 16-bit, 'Run in 640-480 screen res' and 'Display display scaling' (in addition to XP SP3 and run as admin).
This works, and in game you can then fiddle with the display options. Additionally, I have it running in its own directory in my second hard drive.
And I've successfully installed the current WOFF bundle (also on second hard drive) and did three different mission types over 45 mins with no problems. (I have a Dell XPS with a GeForce GTX 745) Tim. Much tweaking and experimentation later, here's the lowdown on CFS3 in Windows 10. My thanks again to Tim (hypercide) for his discovering this. Install CFS3 from your original CDs (or DVD if you're lucky).
Make life easier by not installing to the default folder, use something like C: CFS3 and avoid UAC problems later. Don't run the sim yet!. Apply the 3.1 and 3.1a patches. Don't run the sim yet!. Replace cfs3.exe with the unmentionable patch but don't run the sim yet! Now set the patch program's compatibility as shown:– Yes, the program is being set to run in 640x480 display mode and reduced colour.
Now run CFS3 and once the sim starts (in ghastly 1998–style graphics) you can set the display resolution and colour depth to suit your system (in my case 1680x1050 and 32-bit colour.) CFS3 will run happily but to exit the program use Control-Shift-Q. With this done you can now use cfs3config.exe (run in XP SP3 compatibility) to set your preferences: disable intro movie, switch off dual-pass render, switch on high resolution z-buffer, the usual suspects. But one thing you must not do is switch on anti-aliasing.
If you do there's a crash to desktop every time. If your experience differs, let us know! Hi fellas, I have only just reinstalled CFS3 after not using it for a loooong time.
This thread peaked my interest as I have installed it on win 10 and had no problems (yet). I have the single DVD version.
When installing, I have a CFS3, setup folder. In it I have 10 sub folders ordered 1-10.(Doesn't include aircraft) Number one has the 3.1 and 3.1a patches of which you only need 3.1a if you have the DVD version apparently.Number 2 has the unmentionable thingy which is possibly why I didn't hit problems.3 has the NEK's.
4 foxes super effects package. 5 Winding Mans scenery and so on. I have spent all day installing planes trains, automobiles, airfields and have quite a size able install. I only just tried it,before coming on here, and it is working fine. The point is don't be afraid of win 10 with CFS3. This is the first time I can play it with all sliders up to max due to a new computer. I am looking forward to playing again.
OK just to update, I have run into problems, (serves me right) But it seems to be aircraft installs rather than windows. Also I have noticed a huge difference between air files for 1% aircraft and earlier planes. I am going to redo the whole install and only use the 1% AIRCRAFT. They fly better. I have downloaded the new bump map files but yet to install.
They sound very good. I have high hopes for these. I play Warthunder online and I can say the aircraft models are the best.
They look real. However it's missing some of the playability of CFS3 like more than one player in the same bomber. I'm not impressed with the mix of aircraft they have in a game too. Late or post war aircraft in a game with early war aircraft. New clean install of Win10. Installed original CFS3 to C: Microsoft Games Combat Flight Simulator 3 (i.e. The default path minus the 'Program Files').
Patched to 3.1a. Works perfectly with no special settings. After installing PTO to the same directory (C: Microsoft Games CFS3 PTO Solomon Islands), when I fire it up it looks good until I go to select another plane and then the attached where the screen is being painted onto all the planes! I've tried 'Run as administrator' and different compatibility options to no avail.
Same thing with MAW. In fact, although I am not entirely sure, the problem was not present until I tried MAW. I have not tried ETO or Rising Sun yet until I get this ironed out.
I've never installed into Win10 directly before.