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/ Adam Richardson

Jane’s WWII Fighters Ships

Electronic Arts announced it has shipped Jane's WWII Fighters, featuring the thrill of in-your-face dogfighting during the period that defined white-knuckle air combat.

Jane's WWII Fighters Ships is the story on November 23, 1998, and it is one of those late-1998 PC gaming updates that says exactly where the scene is right now. Electronic Arts today announced it has shipped Jane's WWII Fighters, featuring the thrill of in-your-face dogfighting during the period that defined white-knuckle air combat. Published under the Jane's Combat Simulations brand, Jane's WWII Fighters takes place during a two-week period in the winter of 1944 in which bad weather limited Allied forces to ground tactics.

When the skies cleared, the fighters came in to save the day and locked up an Allied win in the Battle of the Bulge. Accurate flight models, personal interviews with WWII fighter aces and 1940's music put players right into the action. The business side keeps moving, and sometimes those deals decide what we actually get to play next year.