Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater is the successor to the highly successful Combat Flight Simulator WWII Europe Series

Combat Flight Simulator WWII Europe Series

Combat Flight Simulator World War II Europe Series is the first version of combat flight simulators from Microsoft Game Studios, released November 1, 1998. CFS1 is set in the European Theater of World War II.-Game design:...

 and Fighter Ace

Fighter Ace

Fighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots...

 Series. CFS1 Was the first combat conversion of the Microsoft Flight Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a series of flight simulator programs for the Microsoft Windows operating system, although it was marketed as a video game. It is one of the longest-running, best-known and most comprehensive home flight simulator series...

 series. The gameplay takes place in the Pacific Theater of Operations

Pacific War

The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...

, and includes campaigns loosely based on historical air battles, from both the American and Japanese perspectives.

Because of the open-ended architecture of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, the platform for this simulator, many enthusiasts have created massive amounts of extra scenery, aircraft, missions and campaigns.

Content

CFS2 has 7 different types of player-flyable aircraft, all of which are fighters:

United States aircraft: Grumman F4F Wildcat, Grumman F6F Hellcat, Vought F4U Corsair, Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Japanese aircraft: Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero, Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero, Kawanishi N1K2-J George.

Combat Flight Simulator 2 also comes with 11 non-player flyable aircraft:

United States aircraft: Consolidated B-24D Liberator, North American B-25D Mitchell, Douglas C-47 Dakota, Bell P-39D Airacobra, Douglas SBD Dauntless, Douglas TBD-1 Devestator, Grumman TBF Avenger.

Japanese Aircraft: Nakajima B5N2 Kate, Aichi D3A1 Val, Mitsubishi G4M

Mitsubishi G4M

The Mitsubishi G4M 一式陸上攻撃機, 一式陸攻 Isshiki rikujō kōgeki ki, Isshikirikkō was the main twin-engine, land-based bomber used by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service in World War II. The Allies gave the G4M the reporting name Betty...

2 Betty, Nakajima Ki-43

Nakajima Ki-43

The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa was a single-engine land-based tactical fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II...

-IIb Oscar
The themes come from the Pacific War air fighting between 1941-44.
Weather conditions are configurable; clear sky, light or heavy cloud coverage and day or night conditions

Static scenery items include buildings, trees, bridges, aerodromes, harbors, barrage balloons, tents, barracks etc. Moving objects are vehicles, tanks, destroyers, carriers, submarines and planes - all of these can be targeted and most of them have a damage animation

The player can select from two category of planes: the flyable and the non-flyable ones. The first category comprises types the player may pilot in combat, the other types may only be used as escorts or enemies in a fighting scenario.
The main flyable fighting types for the CFS2 are the F4F Wildcat, the Japanese Zero and the F6F Hellcat. They can act as fighters, bombers or rocket launching ground attack fighters and can be used in all Pacific War scenarios in the program.