Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator

Publication is recorded by Microsoft. The recorded date of publication is 1998. It belongs to the series Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. It is associated with United States. Recorded genres are combat flight simulator game. The recorded subject matter is World War II.

• Title — Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series • Developer — Microsoft • Publisher — Microsoft • Director — Dean Lester • Designer — Rob Brown Christina Chen Jonathan Seal Krishnan Shankar • Programmer — Scot Bayless Christina Chen Todd Roberts Krishnan Shankar Eric Straub • Series — Microsoft Flight Simulator • Platforms — Microsoft Windows • Released — October 28, 1998 • Genre — Combat flight simulation game • Modes — Single player, multiplayer

Combat Flight Simulator features 6 modes, Free Flight, Quick Combat, Single Missions, Campaigns, Multiplayer, and Training Missions. Free Flight allows players to fly around the entirety of Europe. Quick Combat puts the player into the air against waves of AI opponents. Single Missions are missions where you have to take-off to complete tasks, before landing. Campaigns are more elaborate mission sequences. Multiplayer was a mode that allowed you to fly online with other players, fly in formations, and engage in dog-fights. The multiplayer supported up to eight players via Internet Gaming Zone service. Training Missions are missions that teach you dogfighting techniques and the basics of flight.

Combat Flight Simulator was a commercial success. It was the United States' 19th-best-selling computer game during the first half of 1999, and totaled 260,708 sales and $10.8 million revenues in the country by that October. The game's defeat of its direct competitor, Jane's WWII Fighters, contributed to the end of Electronic Arts' Jane's Combat Simulations brand. Global sales surpassed 450,000 copies by June 2000.

Combat Flight Simulator was a finalist for Computer Gaming Worlds 1998 "Best Simulation" award, which ultimately went to European Air War.