B17 Flying Fortress The Mighty 8th for PC

Overview
Experience all the drama and action of air combat with B-17. B-17 offers single or multiplayer play in which each of the 10 crewmembers roles must be mastered.

Players can command the supreme daylight bomber of World War II, navigate accurately across Europe, locate and bomb strategic targets and defend the plane from furious enemy attacks.

Players can also take the role of escort fighter pilots or Luftwaffe interceptors for the most immersive and realistic war environment yet.

The US Army's 8th Airforce flying daylight missions over the dangerous skies of Europe to strike at strategic military targets. B-17 Flying Fortress 'The Mighty Eighth' grabs all the latest revolutionary 3D graphics technology to recreate that period and let you take control.

You've got total control. Command one B-17 or a squadron of twelve in full battle formation, look after 10 or 120 crewmen and jump into the shoes of any one of them.

Plan strategic missions based on reconnaissance you have requested. Fly in the escort planes or even the Luftwaffe fighters who are trying to shoot the B-17s down!

All the action takes place in the most realistic and stunning 3D world ever created, featuring jaw-dropping graphic detail that allows you to zoom right down to ground level across the entire war zone of northern Europe.

Targets are not just distant blocks seen from 20,000 feet they are fully viewable, zoom in and rotate around them, and will sustain realistic damage depending on how accurately you bomb them.

Features
You can transfer to any other available position at any time during the game. You can become an expert at all ten crew positions. Pilot, Co-Pilot, Navigator, Bombardier/Chin Turret gunner, Radio Operator, Engineer/Top Turret Gunner, Port Waist Gunner, Starboard Waist Gunner, Ball Gunner and Tail Gunner.

Your success will improve crew morale and AI skill. Battle through the mayhem of flak and cannon shells as the pilot or co-pilot. Become the bombardier, and identify the target by setting data into, and controlling, the revolutionary Norden bombsight.

If you're the navigator you'll have to get the B-17 there and back using your detailed map and you'll have to provide vital wind drift information for the bombardier.

As a radio operator you'll be in charge of messages to and from the bomber. Finally, as a gunner you've got to defend the aircraft by scanning the skies, spotting and destroying enemy fighters with the help of gun sights and realistic tracer round.

Each of the Crewmembers has an AI, which uses the individual skills and characteristics of the crewmember to determine its behaviour.

Experience, ability, injuries and panic modify this AI so that the crewmembers behave in the most lifelike way possible. Back at base each crewmember has his own entry in the personnel files, kept up to date with efficiency reports, missions histories and information on medals, injuries etc.

Medals and promotions are awarded through a points system and reflect the achievements of the individual awarded it rather than a more esoteric score.