Rowan's Battle of Britain

Rowan's Battle of Britain is a World War II era Combat flight simulation video game set during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Rowan's Battle of Britain
Developer(s)Rowan Software
Publisher(s)Empire Interactive
Platform(s)Windows 9x
Release2000 U.S.
Genre(s)Flight Simulator
Mode(s)Single player Multiplayer

Gameplay

The combat flight simulation has both RAF and opposing Luftwaffe forces featuring over 800 square miles (2,100 km2) of sky and hundreds of aircraft.

Release

It has been remade twice, first in 2005 as Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory by Shockwave Productions,Inc., and again in 2007 as Air Battles: Sky Defender by Wild Hare Entertainment, a modified version of the above game with a more arcade-style gameplay. Both versions exist alongside each other.

Legacy

On end-of-support of the game, the source code of the game was released by Rowan Software under the "Empire Interactive License" in 2001.[1] Following the source code release a group from the game's community[2] took up the support and produced several unofficial patches until 2005.[3][4]

Reception

Samuel Bass reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating it five stars out of five, and stated that "Detailed, beautiful, and polished to the nth degree, this is the WWII sim we've all been waiting for."[5]

References
  1. Mitchell, Robert (19 November 2001). "The Return of MiG Alley?". combatsim.com. Retrieved 6 January 2013. Bob Mitchell: What has prompted you to release the source code for MiG Alley and Battle of Britain? Dave Whiteside: Because we are no longer doing flight sims [after Empire took us over at the end of 2001], and we would not be able to publish any patches that were required [no money was allocated to this], rather than let MiG die and all the code sit doing nothing it was considered a good idea, a swan song, if you like, for Rowan [after 13 years in the flight sim market].
  2. Rowans's BoB and the BDG
  3. 02.1.2005: BoB Version 0.99 available ! on bob-ma.org/
  4. BOB-MA Developer Group - Patch for Rowan's Battle of Britain to the BDG version 0.98. on netwings.org
  5. Bass, Samuel (May 2001). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 4 no. 5. Imagine Media. p. 89.


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