Didn't see this one coming

microprose.com


Their first game will be Warbirds 2020 together with IEN.

I'm not going to get too excited just yet. I see that 'Will Bill' Stealey is mentioned. Anyone remember M4 Tank Brigade?

Too few details as of yet but I see mobile versions planned.

Let's hope they can bring back the magic from EAW into the multiplayer now !

Dear Microprose, please hire BMS team and give us a 2020 dx14 version and open it up for more player-planes.

"Warbirds 2020" I will definitely follow its development and see how it turns out. I just hope it's not too "arcadey".

Must be my trifocals, but where's Fleet Defender?

What does Fleet Defender have to do with Microsoft?

Me thinks PM needs glasses.

haha! My bad. That's what happens when I post before I've had my fourth cup of coffee. Thanks for making me aware of my brain fart.

To be fair, we do have TWO threads going on about MICRO-something flight sims today.

We're not going to let PM get off that easy. The Microsoft thread didn't exist until a couple or so hours later.

Hmmn, some legal entity buys up the Microprose trademark, then through a bit of slick web site design implies they were responsible for creating the classics of the past.
Eventually, the visually stunning 'Warbirds 2020' will appear as an always online free-to-play, pay-to-win lootbox ridden personal information gatherer.

I may be wrong of course, but in this MBA world, I doubt it...

I hope the game is not free to play.

Think permadeath, with golden parachutes...

Quoted for da truth!

First screens :O YOWZA

This.

If Wild Bill is involved...it's going to be air-quakeish for sure. Besides...the allure of Microprose titles in the past was it's awesome offline campaigns and immersion. If this is online only I doubt it will resemble anything like the Microprose of old.

Anyone remember that Jane's title that came out a couple years ago? I will remain pessimistic...lol

I’m confused... where is Fleet Defender? I looked and looked but couldn’t find.

I've never been a super-hardcore simmer (although I do appreciate those sims) and yet I'm a cockpit-only flyer. This goes all the way back to Microprose's own Stealth Fighter where you better be keeping your head down in those MFDs and watching the indicator bars and lights. External screens do nothing for me, never have. But I don't see them going back to more modern aircraft anyway, with proper pit and single-player campaign.

I'm still waiting for FD on GOG with the videos and whatever else came extra with the Gold version.

I'd only be interested in a classic flight sim experience with the focus on single player design. I've watched my nephew play World of Warplanes and I even tried it once but it was a pretty craptastic experience. I want a sim of the days of yore made for a PC not requiring an internet connection, activation process with limited licenses per user per computer, that comes with a key card, manual and some personality that I can escape into as a single player with my little screen, joystick and with my imagination.