Best looking... maybe. But the view system was very clumsy (no mouselook, slow panning, awkward zoom) and the map resolution was terrible. Even OFF hasn't been able to work around those.

This was one of the first WWII sims I bought (after MS CFS).

Which reminds me - I should install it on my new PC!

Thanks for keeping the FS alive, Argon - especially the WWI mods!

You are welcome sir! Though I had lots of help in the SDOE community.

Try these links:

http://www.fsww1.com/

http://www.moddb.com/mods/fighter-squadron-world-war-one

http://www.moddb.com/games/fighter-squadron-screamin-demons-over-europe

http://site.openplanesim.com/forums/

The best flight sim at their times...

WWI: Red Baron II 3D

WWII: 1942: The Pacific Air War, European Air War (after patch 1 & 2)

Korea: Mig Ally

Modern: Falcon 3.0, F-15 Strike Eagle III, F/A-18 (Jane's)

IMHO

BE

EAW still rules for me after all these years........
but all the others had different things I truly enjoyed,
always making me wish somebody could roll all the good things
together and make one great sim........

I still fly EAW online and offline and truly appreciate the mods
that are still being done for this sim. I have always kept up with
the mods so I guess it has been easier for me to get it working on
any platform I have had or used.

I agree with another poster thou....I spent many many hours immersed in
PAW.....like 2 games in one.....directing the carrier battle....then being
able to jump into any of the battles.....the view of the ships from an SBD
while dive-bombing was awesome.....the ships evading.....their wakes......
the sounds were excellent too....

EAW was supposed to be the sequel to PAW.....but there was no pacific.
But thanks to our many modders, we can fly SPAW, DAW, SAW, and many other theatres
and planes and terrains...all STILL being modded and upgraded as we speak.

I currently 'try' to mod all the plane sounds so that each plane 'sounds' like the plane
you are flying. I also still have a few EAW videos posted:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2SPo643AQI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpERwJu3wf0

AO

Boy, I hope someone has fixed the roundels on those spits! Yipes...

Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXe
Serial: MH 434. Code CK-D BAF

Belgian AF camo version for European theatres in the
Spit IX slot, based on a photo of the actual aircraft and
a model aircraft (see pics included) owned by Belgian
model enthusiast Renaud Leclercq.

Notes:
This particular aircraft, MH434, was built in 1943 and delivered to 222 Fighter Squadron at Hornchurch where it shot down or damaged four fighters in 3 weeks. Later in the war it saw further action with No. 349 Squadron. The personal aircraft of Henry Lardner-Burke (an 8 kill ace) it flew 74 missions and in total destroyed 5 German fighters. Seeing further combat after the war with the Dutch Air Force in Indonesia, MH 434 served with the Belgian Air Force before coming to the United Kingdom in 1963.

We also have many multiskin planesets with individual markings for each plane in a 16 plane squad.

The spit skin in the video was specifically made for one of our EAW members from Belgium, and there are many, many others.
So I doubt anyone would really give a 'yikes' about a roundel on a spitfire(s) which had many different variants.

AO

Ah, so the skin is a post-war Belgian AF item. I guess I don't feel too
bad about marking it as wrong for WW2 combat. The BAM didn't have any
spits, and no flyable hurris, when it was overrun in 1940, and the free
Belgians flew with RAF 219, so there was no instance when that colour
scheme would have appeared in the war. The BAM was reconstituted in 1946.

My personal favorite WWII flight sim was Aces of the Pacific, by Dynamix...That and the original Red Baron are what hooked me on flight sims as a kid, and have been the standard for me ever since. Sure, maybe the graphics are pretty rough compared to what we have these days, but at their time they were awesome to me. I think the most memorable thing about them for me though is that the campaigns were done so well. Heres hoping one day someone will do the Pacific theater of WWII justice the same way RoF has done for WWI. Until RoF, Red Baron was still the most impressive to me...crappy graphics and all. Aces of the Pacific still holds that place for me when it comes to world war two. I have to say, though, that I am partial to the Pacific theater more so than European. Theyre both interesting, but growing up in a Marine family, and being a Marine myself, I have always been wildly fascinated with all things Pacific. Just my $0.02.

If you go to the Battlelog (EA) website. It looks an awefull lot like they're going to be making a WWII game soon. They have a new wallpaper showing WWII soldiers. I'm guessing...BF4?