"Jane's WWII Fighters Review for PC on ". "Not Just a Pretty Face ( WWII Fighters Review)" (PDF). The magazine's staff wrote: "Unmatched aircraft graphics, amazing special effects, top-notch AI, and accurate flight modeling really pulled you into the experience. However, it won Computer Gaming World 's "Special Award: Musical Score" prize. The game received further runner-up positions for "Best Soundtrack" and "Best Graphics" from IGN, and "Best Sound" and "Best Graphics (Technical Excellence)" from GameSpot. It was also a finalist for Computer Gaming World 's 1998 "Best Simulation", CNET Gamecenter 's 1998 Best Combat Flight Sim, GameSpot 's "Simulation of the Year" and IGN 's "Best Simulation of the Year" prizes, all of which ultimately went to European Air War. The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated the game for its 1998 "Simulation Game of the Year" award, although it lost to Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit. Mark Asher and Tom Chick of Quarter to Three remarked that the game "did a good job of trying to convince us that flight sims aren't dead" that year. By October, its sales in the region had reached 166,971 units for the year 2000 alone, which accounted for $2.5 million in revenue. PC Data named it the country's ninth-best-selling game of May 2000. It climbed to #8 the following week, before exiting the charts for the May 7–13 period. įor the week ending April 29, 2000, the game appeared at #10 on PC Data's weekly computer game sales chart in the United States, with an average retail price of $25. Following the May 2000 bankruptcy of Jane's Attack Squadron developer Looking Glass Studios shortly before that game's completion, Electronic Arts declined to finish the project, and instead opted to exit the flight simulation genre. He attributed its failure to Combat Flight Simulator 's dominance of the World War II flight simulation field during 1998, and called the game's performance "the death knell for Jane's products", after which the brand unraveled. Speaking anonymously to Bruce Geryk of GameSpot, an ex-staffer for Origin Systems remarked that the game "spent some serious cash, and did not sell". reached 60,943 copies by October 1999, which drew revenues of $2.58 million. In 1999, Computer Gaming World reported that the game "appears to have been murdered by Microsoft's brand recognition". The game was released in direct competition with Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, and became a commercial flop.
The game received favorable reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.
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