''Rowan's Battle of Britain'', sometimes known simply as ''Battle of Britain'', is a

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era

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set during the

Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain, also known as the Air Battle for England (german: die Luftschlacht um England), was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defende ...

in 1940.

Gameplay

The combat flight simulation has both

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and opposing

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forces featuring over 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.

Reception

The game received "generally favourable reviews" according to the

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. Samuel Bass of '' NextGen'' said of the game, "Detailed, beautiful, and polished to the nth degree, this is the WWII sim we've all been wating for."

Legacy

On end-of-support of the game, the

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of the game was released by Rowan Software under the "Empire Interactive License" in 2001. Following the source code release a group from the game's community took up the support and produced several

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es until 2005.BOB-MA Developer Group - Patch for Rowan's Battle of Britain to the BDG version 0.98.
on netwings.org

References

External links

(archived) *{{Mobygames, id=/windows/rowans-battle-of-britain
Mirror of the source code
at remaininplay.com 2000 video games Battle of Britain video games Combat flight simulators Commercial video games with freely available source code Empire Interactive games Multiplayer and single-player video games Rowan Software games Video games developed in the United Kingdom Windows games Windows-only games World War II flight simulation video games