B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th! (Windows)

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Description

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th! is a single-player only flight sim featuring the famous WWII bomber, made by some of the team who also created B-17 Flying Fortress for MicroProse.

You can take control over every of 16 positions available in this plane: Pilot, Gunner, Bomber or communications officer. You can also fly one of the escort fighters (P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang, and P-47 Thunderbolt) or German fighters (Bf 109, FW 190, and Me 262).

The flight model is very accurate, as is the graphics and sounds used to represent plane damage.

In addition to managing the aircraft and bombing missions, one also has to manage the bomber crew, take care of the wounded, make sure they don't panic under fire, almost like in an RPG.

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Alternate Titles

• "Б-17 Летающая Крепость 2" -- Russian spelling
• "B-17空中堡垒：第八飞行中队" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

Part of the Following Groups

• Aircraft: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
• Aircraft: Focke-Wulf Fw 190
• Aircraft: Messerschmitt Bf 109
• Aircraft: Messerschmitt Me 262
• Aircraft: P-38 Lightning
• Aircraft: P-47 Thunderbolt
• Aircraft: P-51 Mustang
• Best of Infogrames / Atari releases
• MicroProse B-17 Flying Fortress series
• PC Gamer Presents Games

User Reviews

This is what happens when your only goal is to one-up another title	Maury Markowitz (270)
A technical marvel and a very poor game	Rick Jones (111)

Critic Reviews

Gamesmania.de	2000	89 out of 100	89
PC Action (Germany)	Dec, 2000	88 out of 100	88
PC Games (Germany)	Dec, 2000	87 out of 100	87
Jeuxvideo.com	Dec 11, 2000	16 out of 20	80
IGN	Dec 18, 2000	8 out of 10	80
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Jan 11, 2001		80
GameSpot	Dec 19, 2000	7.8 out of 10	78
GameWatcher / Strategy Informer	Oct 14, 2004	7.7 out of 10	77
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Dec 23, 2000	7 out of 10	70
Deaf Gamers	2004	3.5 out of 5	70

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Trivia

Porn links

One of the data files of the original version of the game contained links to hardcore porn websites.

According to the developer, this was caused by, during development, merging several different data files into one larger file. Every time a file was added to the large file, space was allocated. However, when too much memory was allocated, the extra space was filled with what was on the disk there before.

Related Web Sites

• German fan site (German fan site)