B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th is a combat flight simulator developed by Wayward Design and published by Hasbro Interactive under the MicroProse brand in 2000 as a sequel to the 1992 flight simulator B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action. Tommo purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.[2]
Developer(s) | Wayward Design |
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Publisher(s) | Hasbro Interactive |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Combat flight simulator |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | 82/100[3] |
Publication | Score |
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CNET Gamecenter | 8/10[4] |
Computer Games Strategy Plus | [5] |
Computer Gaming World | [6] |
EP Daily | 8/10[7] |
Eurogamer | 7/10[8] |
GameSpot | 7.8/10[9] |
GameSpy | 90%[10] |
IGN | 8/10[11] |
Next Generation | [12] |
PC Gamer (US) | 82%[13] |
The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[3] However, Samuel Bass of NextGen gave it a negative review, saying, "Scuttled before it can even get off the runway, B-17 is simply a betrayal of MicroProse's fans."[12]