Rowan's Battle of Britain

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.

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

Gameplay

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

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	79/100[3]

Review scores

Publication	Score
AllGame	[4]
Computer Games Strategy Plus	[5]
Computer Gaming World	[6]
Eurogamer	7/10[2]
GameSpot	8.4/10[7]
GameStar	73%[8]
GameZone	6.5/10[9]
IGN	7.7/10[10]
Next Generation	[1]
PC Gamer (US)	80%[11]

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

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

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]