Rowan's Battle of Britain

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Rowan's Battle of Britain
Developer(s)Rowan Software
Publisher(s)Empire Interactive
Platform(s)Windows
Release
  • EU: 8 December 2000
  • NA: 29 January 2001
Genre(s)Combat flight simulator
Mode(s)Single player, Multiplayer

Rowan's Battle of Britain, sometimes known simply as Battle of Britain,[1][2] is a World War II era combat flight simulation game set during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Gameplay[edit]

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.

Reception[edit]

The game received "generally favourable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[3] 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]

Sequels[edit]

The game was remade twice, first in 2005 as Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory by Shockwave Productions, Inc.,[12][13] 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.[14]

Legacy[edit]

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.[15] Following the source code release a group from the game's community[16] took up the support and produced several unofficial patches until 2005.[17][18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Bass, Samuel (May 2001). "[Rowan's] Battle of Britain". NextGen. Imagine Media. p. 89. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b Boys, Ian (30 December 2000). "The Battle of Britain [sic]". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on 24 January 2001. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Rowan's Battle of Britain". Metacritic. Fandom. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  4. ^ Smith, Ted. "Rowan's Battle of Britain - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on 17 November 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  5. ^ McElveen, Nick (1 February 2001). "Battle of Britain". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on 25 May 2003. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  6. ^ 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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  7. ^ Geryk, Bruce (14 February 2001). "Rowan's Battle of Britain Review [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]". GameSpot. Fandom. Archived from the original on 7 July 2001. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  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. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  11. ^ Klett, Steve (April 2001). "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. ^ Butts, Steve (28 November 2005). "Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 3 December 2005. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  13. ^ Clare, Oliver (15 October 2005). "Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on 28 September 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  14. ^ Mahood, Andy (June 2007). "Air Battles: Sky Defender". PC Gamer. Vol. 14, no. 6. Future US. p. 57.
  15. ^ Mitchell, Robert (19 November 2001). "The Return of MiG Alley?". CombatSim.com. Archived from the original on 28 November 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. 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].
  16. ^ "Rowans's [sic] BoB and the BDG". BoB II Resources. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  17. ^ 02.1.2005: BoB Version 0.99 available ! on bob-ma.org/
  18. ^ BOB-MA Developer Group - Patch for Rowan's Battle of Britain to the BDG version 0.98. on netwings.org

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