is a single player immersive WW2 Combat Simulator for PC, based around an immersive single player experience with OBD’s IDCS™ in a living world (IDCS is OBD’s Immersive Dynamic Campaign System™).
This is Phase 1.
Fly and fight for your life in the air in World War 2.
Choose to fly a Hurricane MKI (late) in an RAF fighter squadron or in the Luftwaffe in a Messerschmitt Bf109 ‘Emil’.
Immerse yourself in the greatest air battle that has ever been - the Battle of Britain’ - rendered using new campaign systems developed by OBD.
In the next phases we plan to move the war to Europe and culminate in the extensive devastation of Europe by the day and night bombing raids over the German ‘Reich’.
Licensing: You need to own Microsoft’s Combat Simulator 3 for licensing purposes. It is not needed to physically install it, but please make sure you own a copy.
Important: WOTR is standalone and should be installed into its own folders.
Yes, looks like Rowan’s Battle of Britain. WOFF is a great product in a pretty sparse field of WW1 sims, but WOTR is playing in a crowded era I think. Difficult to see anything unique or appealing in it at the moment sadly.
I like to support older sims but unless they eventually include some flyables that aren’t available elsewhere (Lancaster?) I will observe from the sidelines, Plus i watched the video and the Hurricane gun sounds were an instant negative for me.
Very dated. But they wouldn’t have made it unless there was a market. WOFF players jump through the hoops because the immersive quality of the game is worth it even if the visuals are not. Says a lot.
Alas, my copy of CFS3 went onto the “ash heap of history”, i.e. a Garage Sale. I kept CFS2, the one in the Pacific Theater) because I felt its planes were aerodynamically closer to the real thing. For instance, the Hellcat could beat a Zero as long as you kept your energy up and made slashing attacks vice trying to match the Zero in a turn fight.
They lost me at “Phase I”, “The Battle of Britain”. If one were to divide the WWII European Air Campaign into phases, then Phase I probably should be the Battle of France. Just saying.
I’ve always been a CFS2 fan. The graphics are’s all that great but it is the Pacific theater so, water is water. I found the flight models to be fairly accurate representations of the real thing. You actually had to use historically accurate tactics that changed depending on your aircraft and the adversary.
