Carriers at War

Carriers at War is a computer game series developed by Strategic Studies Group.

Carriers at War
Developer(s)Strategic Studies Group
Publisher(s)Matrix Games
Series'Carriers at War'
Platform(s)Apple II (vintage), Commodore 64 (vintage), MS-DOS (I & II), Macintosh (I & II), Microsoft Windows (current)
Release1984, 1992, 1993, 2007
Genre(s)simulation, strategy
Mode(s)Single Player, Multi Player

Publication history

Carriers at War was developed in 1992 for PC DOS/MS-DOS and 1993 for Mac OS. Carriers at War II: Fleet Carrier Operations in Southeast Asia 1936-1946 came out in 1993. An updated version of Carriers at War was released on June 8, 2007. The current release is the latest in a long history of this title dating back to 1984 for (Apple II) and (Commodore 64) entitled Carriers at War 1941-1945: Fleet Carrier Operations in the Pacific.

Carriers at War: Construction Kit was published in 1993, and The Complete Carriers at War: Fleet Carrier Operations in World War II was published in 1996.

Reception

A 1987 overview of World War II simulations in the magazine Computer Gaming World rated the original Carriers at War four of five points and stated that "it excels in flexibility, options and limited intelligence".[1] A 1993 survey in the magazine of wargames gave it three stars out of five, stating "Highly recommended for the 8-market", and rated the revised DOS version three-plus stars, criticizing the lack of a campaign.[2] In 1994 the magazine said that the 8-bit version was "one of the first computer wargames to approach the complexity of board wargame simulations while still remaining playable and fun", and that the DOS version "was a milestone in computer wargame history".[3]

The updates of the most recent release were reviewed on June 25, 2007 in Carriers at War Review at outofeight.info.

References
  1. Brooks, M. Evan (May 1987). "Kilobyte Was Here!". Computer Gaming World. No. 37. p. 7. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  2. Brooks, M. Evan (September 1993). "Brooks' Book of Wargames: 1900-1950, A-P". Computer Gaming World. p. 118. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  3. Coleman, Terry Lee (June 1994). "Campaign Wishes And Carrier Dreams". Computer Gaming World. pp. 140, 142.
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