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Rowan's Battle of Britain, sometimes mislabeled as Battle of Britain,[1] is a World War II era combat flight simulation 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
Release
  • EU: 8 December 2000
  • NA: 29 January 2001
Genre(s)Combat 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.


Reception


The game received "generally favourable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[2] 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."[1]


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.[12] Following the source code release a group from the game's community[13] took up the support and produced several unofficial patches until 2005.[14][15]


References


  1. Bass, Samuel (May 2001). "[Rowan's] Battle of Britain". NextGen. Imagine Media. p. 89. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  2. "Rowan's Battle of Britain for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  3. Smith, Ted. "Rowan's Battle of Britain - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on 17 November 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  4. McElveen, Nick (1 February 2001). "[Rowan's] Battle of Britain". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on 25 May 2003. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  5. Berg, Gordon (April 2001). "Truly Their Finest Hour (Rowan's Battle of Britain Review)" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 201. Ziff Davis. pp. 92–93. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  6. Boys, Ian (30 December 2000). "The Battle of Britain [sic]". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on 24 January 2001. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  7. Geryk, Bruce (14 February 2001). "Rowan's Battle of Britain Review [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  8. "Battle of Britain". GameStar (in German). Webedia. January 2001.
  9. Gerbino, Robert (15 February 2001). "Rowan's Battle of Britain Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  10. Butts, Steve (20 February 2001). "Rowan's Battle of Britain". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  11. Klett, Steve (April 2001). "[Rowan's] Battle of Britain". PC Gamer. Vol. 8, no. 4. Imagine Media. p. 77. Archived from the original on 15 March 2006. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  12. 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].
  13. Rowans's BoB and the BDG
  14. 02.1.2005: BoB Version 0.99 available ! on bob-ma.org/
  15. BOB-MA Developer Group - Patch for Rowan's Battle of Britain to the BDG version 0.98. on netwings.org




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