Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain 1989
Developed by Lucasfilm Games
- Simulator, Action, Historical, Warfare
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is a World War II combat flight simulation game by Lawrence Holland, released in October 1989 for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS systems. It was the second game in the trilogy of World War II titles by Lucasfilm Games, the others being Battlehawks 1942 (1988) and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (1991). The game was released with a 192-page manual written by Victor Cross, that provided a detailed historical overview of the battle and pilots' perspectives. An expansion pack, Their Finest Missions: Volume One, was released in 1989. After humbling all of Europe, the dreaded Third Reich planned to bring Great Britain to its knees. Pilot British Spitfires and Hurricanes against the Luftwaffe's Messerschmitt fighters or Stuka, Dornier and Heinkel bombers. Or climb inthe German cockpits to dogfight against the gallant pilots of the RAF.
SimulatorActionHistoricalWarfareworld war ii - ww2combat flight simulatorphysical copy protectionAtari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga
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Plot-driven, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Platforms
- Atari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga
- Developer
- Lucasfilm Games
- Publisher
- Lucasfilm Games, U.S. Gold
- Released
- October 1, 1989
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
IGDB rating 7.4/10 from 5 ratings.
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