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Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

After the success of the simulation titles Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain® and Battlehawks 1942 in the late 80s, LucasArts decided to follow up those games with another World War II simulation title…

1 August 1991

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is a simulator developed by Lucasfilm Games, released 1 August 1991 on DOS.

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What Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is a simulator game developed by Lucasfilm Games and released in 1991. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After the success of the simulation titles Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain® and Battlehawks 1942 in the late 80s, LucasArts decided to follow up those games with another World War II simulation title: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. Released in August 1991, the game followed the campaign by the US 8th Air Force to cripple the German Luftwaffe during the final years of World War II. Players could fly in either American or German warplanes. The game was remarkable because many of the playable airplanes were still under development during the war. In other words, the planes were never used extensively in battle, so players could explore “what if ” possibilities with the game. Those…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe come out?
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe was released on 1 August 1991 for DOS.

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