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Customer Reviews of B-17 Flying Fortress

Best heavy bomber sim ever made, if you're patient enough
As the title says, if you have the patience, you will get plenty of mileage out of this game. You get to take over nearly every aspect of flying the famed B-17 Flying Fortress in strategic bombing missions over Europe. You can let your 'Fort pretty much run itself, or you can manually take control of any of its 10 crewmbers, from the Bombardier, to the Pilot, to the Tail Gunner. Whenever you're not in manual control, the plane "flies itself" although your input can greatly affect the outcome of the mission. As the campaign progresses, your crew gains experience and they are more able to do their respective jobs. The famous Norden bombsight is included in the game, designed with the help of an actual World War II bombardier who used the Norden to bomb Japan. It's as close to the real thing as you can get with a computer, and you'll feel like a champ once you figure out how to use it properly and are able to drop your 6,000 lb bomb load exactly where you want it to be from 25,000 feet up in the air. It's quite a feeling to watch your bombs drop one by one out of the bomb bay and hit the target. First you see the massive train of explosions wreaking havoc to your chosen target, followed 10 seconds later by the deafening roar. The flak is done to perfection as well. It's a bit terrifying to fly through heavy flak and watch your plane getting shot to shreds and not be able to do anything about it. It's like flying through a bunch of grenades, and when you're inside the plane you can hear the shrapnel plinking off of the airframe. You can name your crewmembers after anyone you like, you can even design your own nose art with the help of a mod. If you're really ambitious, you can be a Squadron Commander and be in total command of 12 bombers, and are able to name all 12 of them along with their 120 crewmembers. You can request reconnaisance film and intelligence information on any of the hundreds of in-game targets, and then choose which ones to target on the next mission. I've learned more about the geography of Europe from playing this game than from all the history classes I've had in my life. I could go on and on about the great times I've had on this game, but I wouldn't be fair to anyone who reads this if I don't mention the #1 pitfall of this game: the crashes. Depending on your operating system and hardware, you could have a hard time running this game without it crashing. I fought it for a month before I realized that the game didn't like my integrated sound card, and once I replaced it with a PCI card, everything was fine. Some people run the game without any difficulties whatsoever. For the $20 or so that it costs these days, if you're interested at all in flight sims or the B-17, and are willing to learn the massive amount of controls, then by all means buy this game. It's one of those games that you can play incessantly for a few months, put it down for a year or so, and then fall in love with all over again for a few more months. I don't see this game coming off of my shelf for a long long time.

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B-17 Flying Fortress
This is a good PC game because in shows people what it was like to Be in the clasic B-17.I only played the game once so I did not get a good sence of the game but I liked it all the same.

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Problems with the Windows XP Professional
I bought this game a few months ago. I didn't have any problems loading and playing it with the Windows NT platform. I was very dissapointed that I wasn't able to play with the XP. Any suggestions?
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