Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WW II Pacific Theater

[@ChristopherMundahl]

i remember playing this and loving it, but then playing il2 and loving it more!

[@raymondyee2008]

Omg the memories of this old PC game.

[@CueDriver]

I am right there with you. So many memories and friends made through this game. I still have the Sidewider FFB stick.

[@Negostrike]

I still got the CDs. The global scenery is probably imported from FS2000, although with different ground textures.

[@ralphmunnich]

I was in college when this one came out. Played it and downloaded all the mods I could. Good times. Great video.

[@Coot]

I remember this one pretty well too. I think I bought it around 2001. I've always loved the Pacific theatre and naval operations along with all the Grumman aircraft. I remember liking the comic book/storyboard style presentation of the game's presentation as well as I recall loving the way guns sounded in the sim. They had a unique punch to their sound design that made me feel as if I was almost using force feedback though I've never owned a force feedback flight stick. I forgot about the little landing signal officer screen when landing which is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing all these great old sims damson. You've got a nice little software video museum going here.

[@WatchRayPlay]

Game was fire at the time, loved it and played the hell out of it. More realistic settings became quite difficult without good setup, many times completed a full mission just to land on a runway, hit the brakes on my Zero and just go head over heels and crash dead.

[@xBruceLee88x]

I used this game as an interactive project for history class. Checked out an older ibm thinkpad with a 16mb ati chip, loaded this game, and had a tri fold board listing facts about ww2 air war. Even bought a saitek flight stick for the laptop. Got a 105 on the project. Back in 2006. As far as I know, the only interactive project ever for the school. One that could be easily reset for anyone interested. Due to a render issue though kept the game in cockpit view

[@Universal_exports87]

Microshit, we don't need a new FS2024, we need a new Combat Flight Simulator that covers Europe, North Africa and the Pacific, you have the technology to do it.

[@DankNoodles420]

We have one already... It's called DCS. (Digital Combat Simulator)

[@RealDarko]

It was a great sim, loved the comic scenes and the interview with Mr. Sakai, that was a very nice plus.

[@__Andrew]

Such a good game, i remember as a kid flying back to the carrier with my damaged Corsair after an attack, working the cowl flaps to desperately try to keep my damaged engine from overheating before i could hit the deck and knowing i only got one chance to catch the tail hook cause there aint no way im making it around for a second pass.

[@KindaGross]

dammmmn I remember the frames being so much higher fidelity. Love to see it thanks for uploading

[@stevenc485]

I still have my copy that I bought when it came out. Was there ever a patch that fixed the damage bug? From what I remember if anything on your airplane was hit then aileron effectiveness was reduced by 90%. I remember a lot of people upset about this on the old SimHQ forums.

[@westilldontknow3407]

played this with my dad when i was like 5 years old. simplers times. they don't make games like this anymore.

[@mikeschmidt1996]

oh el viejo simulador combate fue como el primer simulador realistico tuvo exitio ademas simviation todavia hay aviones para Combat Flight Simulator 1,2,3 ademas mas y FlightSim

[@rwd76]

A true classic and a blast from the past.

[@JohnTheBodge]

I just installed CFS & CFS2 on my Win95b machine and they are better than I remembered. I have a number of payware add-ons for CFS2, mostly for the Korean War but also the Harrier and MiG-21 from Just Flight and Captain Sim respectively. JF also did a great Mosquito add-on for CFS2 and there is/was a wealth of downloadable add-on aircraft, too. Plenty to do.

[@davepleus7945]

Hundreds of hours in this classic!

[@kinnertubbyson]

Same, brother. this and CFS3 were top tier. id love to be able to play these again.

[@Perich29]

I've played the 1st one but not the 2nd one. the 1st Combat Flight Sim when I was playing it on the battle of Great Briten, we talk about the Battle of Great Britten in U.S. History class back in my high school. so I got some of the history lesson from this game as well.

[@DankNoodles420]

I am surprised that you even made it into high school with spelling like that! "Briten"? and then you even spelt it wrong the second time as well!!! "Britten" it is even wrong in a different way the second time. Dude didn't even spell the word wrong in the same way consistently, which at least would have shown that maybe you just thought it was spelt that way even though it is wrong but the fact you failed to even spell it wrong the same way two times makes it seem like you do not even know how it is spelled what so ever and literally just had to guess and sound it out. smh how can someone not know how to spell "Britain" in the era of auto correct, auto spelling check, Google access on mobile high speed wireless networks, online dictionaries, Google Translate. Etc.

[@Leon-bc8hm]

@@DankNoodles420 Nothing can beat the American educational system LOL

[@DankNoodles420]

@@Leon-bc8hm The sad part is that when you look back at all 12 years of school and break down everything that they taught to you young you, who didn't know anything at all basically... I could have learned all the subjects that I recall being taught to us throughout the entire length of school entirely myself easily in like a couple days.

[@BPMperwave.games.theme.covers]

thanks for the DDrawCompat, tip. I was trying to get rid of the low graphic, till I saw your video and how smooth it looks and BINGO, just drop the dll into the installation folder and the magic will happens :)

[@georgrbroown570]

There was a dambusters add on you could buy- my pc was way to shite to handle it, though

[@thejetfighter]

It's been a while since the last time I played this game. Was one of my favorites back in the day. Nice video 😀

[@o_fingers_o]

remember using to gps gauge to fly across the pacific, just for fun,as a group.

[@peterkossits4794]

The engine is still alive and kicking (CF3, not ver 2 though). Check out Wings Over Flanders Fields and Wings Over The Reich if you don't know about them.

[@fraggerfragsolot9285]

Ah, good memories

[@kapselek5861]

Serdeczne dzięki za ten film.. przypomniał mi czasy technikum, gdy tuż po premierze tej gry spędzałem z nią długie wieczory, Jako że w symulatorach siedzę nadal pobrałem ten tytuł by sprawdzić czy nadal jest tak miodny jak zapamiętałem.. i wiesz co? Gra w dalszym ciągu jest po prostu obłędna. Godnie się zestarzała ale nadal daje ogrom frajdy.

[@Universal_exports87]

19:52, fantastic shot!

[@TEXACO83ITA]

Ooooh i love this game, my favorite❤

[@___dh__dh__]

Whoa, this is taking me back. I definitely played this.

[@Duchovicius]

Mega dobra gra. Zresztą jak prawie każda z tamtych czasów 😊

[@LowRCS]

Memories......👍

[@lefteristzanetis8220]

AMAZING!!!!

[@TEXACO83ITA]

Ah another think, i have again the CDrom 😁

[@Documenting_Life_8619]

How do u get the whole map ?

[@MarcoSerra-w7d]

I love this game!

[@EJ205T]

What about physics and systems there? Are 2D cockpits clickable?

[@damsonn]

As with MSFS from this era, 2d cockpits indeed are clickable.

[@EJ205T]

@@damsonn flightmodel feels like MFS?

[@damsonn]

@@EJ205TI would say it's more refined. At the time it was good.

[@wvyvvwy2025]

懐かしい　またやりたいけど、当時最高性能だったジョイスティックはもう経年劣化で壊れてしまったし、今のPCは64Bit ハードルあるなあ

[@Spacegamejunkie]

Oh man, how did you get this one running?

[@damsonn]

This only needs nocd exe because of SafeDisc DRM not being supported on modern Windows and ddraw wrapper to enable hardware acceleration. Otherwise it installs and runs just fine. Check video description for more info ;)

[@Spacegamejunkie]

@@damsonn Oh nice, thank you!

[@AIexanderthefake]

Can this be made for Google play

[@oldy27]

👌

[@bcarreon6409]

Where can this be played in 2024?

[@kapselek5861]

Abandonware.

[@ahmadmuzaffarzafriy1234]

Do you have every cutscenes for this game? And how do you record CFS2?

[@damsonn]

The way the game builds its cutscenes is interesting - it reuses some short clips while overlaying spkoen lines depending on how you do in the campaign. So you could say they are dynamically built. I used ShadowPlay for recording the gameplay.

[@ahmadmuzaffarzafriy1234]

@@damsonnDo you know how many missions are there in campaign for CFS2?

[@damsonn]

@@ahmadmuzaffarzafriy1234 I'm still playing the US campaign, so not sure.

[@kapselek5861]

47 for each side.

[@andrzejp4207]

Serwus. Jakoś specjalnie instalowałeś grę, Używałeś dodatków w stylu dgvoodoo? U mnie odpala się grafika bez wspomagania hardware

[@damsonn]

Zwyczajnie, aby mieć akcelerację sprzętową użyj DDrawCompat - link w opisie do filmu ;)

[@redwolf1647]

The zero in this game turns almost 90 degree while in cfs1 the me109 was a brick to turn. Microsoft sucks at combat flight sims.

[@rodolfohernandez2702]

I completly agree with you. In fact for me the 3 MCFS sucked. One thing that was only good was the intro of MCFS3

[@redwolf1647]

@@rodolfohernandez2702 cfs3 was exclusively ground attack, the most boring of all 3

[@executrix2224]

It was a very good game​@@redwolf1647

[@julthefool150]

To be fair … bf109 are not meant to turn. While they are more agile than for example a Focke Wulf they are still energy fighters meant to sweep in from above dive on their target fire a few volleys and then climb back up above your prey using the energy gained from the dive and converting it back to altitude. The zero is meant for slow-low energy turn fighting. Similar to the British spitfires

[@Leon-bc8hm]

@@julthefool150 Replace FW190 with P51 and you have a better example.