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Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

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Genres
Simulator
Themes
ActionHistoricalWarfare
Modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Developer
Lucasfilm Games
Publishers
Lucasfilm Games, U.S. Gold
Release dates
Platform Date
Amiga December 31, 1990
Atari ST/STE December 31, 1990
DOS August 01, 1991

About

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.

Story

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.

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