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• Jan. 1, 2000 Review: European Air War

  Evocative, thematic, atmospheric. These are just a few of the adjectives I could use to describe European Air War, the latest WWII fighter sim from MicroProse. Immersive is probably the best description, however, because this is one game that never loses sight of the fact that no matter how technically proficient a combat-flight sim might be, its primary purpose is to entertain. Not only does EAW accomplish this with style and substance, it even manages to suspend time itself by drawing you so irretrievably into the massive aerial conflict over Europe between 1940 and 1945, clocks and calendars will probably cease to exist while you're playing it (or at least until four in the morning when you finally manage to drag your energy-depleted carcass off to bed).