BoBII – quick review

The more you criticise, the less there will be.

Checking BoBII’s official boards, it seems my view is shared by just about every other person to buy the game. It’s riddled with bugs and most can’t get through one mission without the game crashing back to desktop…

I am familiar with those titles, yes. But compared with 1998/99 there are practically no serious combat flight sims in development. 1C Maddox in Russia are a notable exception, but that’s about it.

For the Second World War, as an example, at one time we were spoilt for choice… EAW, FSDOE, WWIIF etc.. but no more.

Flight simmers are notoriously picky (as they have an entitlement to be) but this fastidiousness combined with an industry drift to console gaming means that the hayday of combat flight sims is gone and economics are based on low cost (non Western) development or reuse of old engines.

Aha you meant *combat* flight sims!

Now that makes a lot more sense … and I tend to agree with you.

I am familiar with those titles, yes. But compared with 1998/99 there are practically no serious combat flight sims in development. 1C Maddox in Russia are a notable exception, but that’s about it.

For the Second World War, as an example, at one time we were spoilt for choice… EAW, FSDOE, WWIIF etc.. but no more.

Flight simmers are notoriously picky (as they have an entitlement to be) but this fastidiousness combined with an industry drift to console gaming means that the hayday of combat flight sims is gone and economics are based on low cost (non Western) development or reuse of old engines.

Flight sims are effectively dead commercially. The more you criticise, the less there will be.

While I have no reason to criticise your other comments, I think this one needs challenging.

Have you heard of X-Plane? or Flight Simulator 2004? or even the hype already generated by Flight Simulator 2006?

If that’s ‘dead’ then I’m happy to accept the profits of the sales of these!!

Good thing I didn’t bother ordering it then!

I had enough problems with the original!

I havent got BoB2 yet, but I look forward to it trying it. I would like to comment on the bashing the original Rowans BoB gets. There are too many boneheads out there spouting off about the high standards they have for flight sims, and who trash the original BoB as too buggy to be playable. I would like to say that it is an old game that will not run on modern graphics cards, you have to run it on a system that uses shared memory. I ran it on a win 98, Duron 800 mhz with shared memory and it ran flawlessly. If the above poster had problems with the original, fine, all old games will have problems to some degree or another, but that shouldnt effect the game with an updated game engine. What really kills me is how guys get all ga ga over IL-2 and LOMAC when both those games pay for their so called high quality graphics by being resource hogs. Yes I am gratefull someone did the WW2 airwar on the russian front with high quality 3D aircraft models, but that game is not the end all.

And for those of you who are dumb enough to try and run the original BoB on winXP, please just stick with MS FS and dont bother your head about classic games.

You chaps amaze me, I must say.

There is no more faithful rendition of the Battle of Britain than this sim (with its 500 bomber raids and terrible pressure on Fighter Command) but you choose to niggle.

Flight sims are effectively dead commercially. The more you criticise, the less there will be.

Good thing I didn’t bother ordering it then!

I had enough problems with the original!