Jane's Attack Squadron

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $5.45

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Customer Reviews:

AHHHHHHHH DANGER BAD GAME OVER [Posted on 2003-01-04]
danger not a good game i dont think its worth it thou microsoft flight sims are much!!!!!!!! better dont buy this save your money

One star is too many for this ripoff [Posted on 2003-09-25]
Jane's Attack Squadron gets one star from me only because I can't figure out how to give it zero stars. Putting the "Jane's" name on this turkey is like nailing a Porsche badge onto a half-built Excalibur kit car.

As far as I can tell, here is what happened. About five years ago, Jane's was associated with Electronic Arts. In one of the greatest marriages in flight simulation history, a company with possibly the planet's most talented game designers cooperated with the world's premier source of military equipment data, and produced what will go down in history as one of the greatest combat flight sims of all time, Jane's WWII Fighters.

At some point after the release of that peerless masterpiece, there was a falling out between the two partners. Perhaps somebody from the "Jane's" side spilled coffee into an EA designer's keyboard, or maybe EA started to get jealous of the acclaim Jane's was earning using EA's talent.

Whatever happened, the geniuses took a hike, and now the Jane's name is being tacked onto products (I won't call them "software") that have evidently been designed by hacks, wannabees, moronic nuts and monkeys. With all due respect for monkeys, the Jane's name alone isn't going to raise the prestige of this trash, and in fact junk like J.A.S. is eventually going to pull the Jane's name right down into the gutter.

My advice to Jane's, is if you want to be involved in the PC gaming business, buy some kneepads, suck up your pride, and crawl back to the people who designed WWII Fighters and beg them, bribe them, do whatever it takes, to get them back on board. I know for a fact that programmers and designers can be bribed with stacked boxes of hot Captain Tony's pizza and cold liter bottles of Shasta spiked with Cutty Sark or flat Bartle's & James coolers, which ever happens to be available. Lacking those, a fair and equitable compensation package reflecting the creative talent's true value to your company could be used as a backup plan.

In the meantime, for everyone who craves the feel of piston speed, the rush of wind past your canopy, and the sight of your orange tracers pouring into an FW-190, lighting it up in flame and sending it tumbling into the clouds below, buy, borrow, copy or steal the original Jane's WWII Fighters, load it into your super PC, crank all the sounds and details up to max, and prepare to be awed again and again. The bigger the dogfights, the more WWII Fighters stops looking like a game and the more it starts looking like a masterful aviation painting in motion.

Having said that, why can't I buy it anywhere? My original copy is now a cherished possession that I guard carefully, and if you can find it, it's definitely worth whatever you're willing to pay.

But don't buy JAS. Instead, demand a Pacific version of WWII fighters, designed by the original people or at least people who know code from toejam - we've been waiting more than 5 years for Corsairs and Zeros, COMON JANES, GET IT TOGETHER!

Waste of $40 [Posted on 2004-02-26]
Jefferson T. Packer hit the nail right on the head! I can't even find anyone to play this dog online with. I did find 4 copies of WWII fighters on ebay!!!

Kool Game [Posted on 2004-08-29]
Its a fun game. The graphics can get better though. I got this game for 5 bucks. Its worth that kind of money. The campaigns can get boring. There is a quick mission. That is where you can pick ur plane and the one or ones u try to blow up. U can blow up ships or airfeilds too. The damage graphics are awesome. It shows every bullethole. The landing gear can get hit easy, then its almost impossible to land. You can also bail out to. All ur gas oil and hydraulic tanks can leak. Sometimes when ur fuel tanks is hit, it explodes and rips off one of ur wings. If u can find it under $15 buy it.

One of the best games ever! [Posted on 2006-05-14]
This game is a lot of fun.But you should use a joystick if you have one.Includes 14 flyable aircraft including The B-17 and B-24 bombers and the Mustang,109E and G,FW 190,and even the Me 262 jet fighters.I recommend that you don't fly the P-38 much because it maneuver in a dogfight very good.You can get this game at Target for as little as $10.Get this game.It's AWSOME!!

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