Jane's Fleet Command - 10/10/99
by: John Rowe

What a good idea:

This idea is a really good one, and it fills up a practically empty market. Something I would love to see is a RTS game which gives you control of a whole fleet, preferably one with real ships and set in these times. There is such a potential for a good game in that, as long as it’s not at a Command and Conquer pace, maybe more of a Settlers pace. The only game that I can think of that has anything to do with this is the upcoming Cutthroats or Corsairs, however they are both about 15^th century pirates which is a little off the timeline I was thinking, but it’s a start. 

Well here we have an attempt to fulfil this empty market by Jane’s, who make excellent information books and usually mediocre games (with a few exceptions). Now I like World War 2 fighters, it looks lovely and plays well, although the terrain you fly over is bloody boring, but it’s a good game all the same. Now you can’t deny that Jane’s know there stuff, I mean who else has as much information as they do on modern day weaponry, no one I can think of. Vast knowledge is one thing but is the actual game any good? Well, erm, quite.

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