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HEY! All you SIM-Heads! This is not a sim. "SWON is an air combat action game following in the tradition of the X-Wing and TIE Fighter and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe series. Like those titles,SWON is strongly focused on action."- from the LucasArts Secret Weapons over Normandy official web site.
If you're a heavy sim player, you probably will not like this GAME. I've seen a couple of poor reviews citing poor realism or flight dynamics. IT'S A GAME! IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE REALISM! LucasArts focused on historic accuracy AND fun. If you like action games without bothersome "flight models" and reality (I turn reality off in CFS1,3 and other of my sims)then you may like this game.
Hey sim-heads, lighten up.

Secret Weapons Over Normandy (SWON) was designed by Totally Games, whose founder, Larry Holland, has a history of making very fun, very accessible, flight action games, such as X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe.

SWON is the continuation of that heritage, and fans of flight action games, and fans of earlier games by Larry Holland, will not be disappointed. However, anyone excepting SWON to be a flight simulation is just setting themselves up for disappointment, as SWON has much more in common with flight action games such as Starfighter and Crimson Skies than it does with flight sims like Falcon 4 and IL-2 Sturmovik.

That being said, SWON is a very fun game. It is fast-paced and throws you right into dogfighting and air-to-ground action from the very start of the game. The best thing about SWON is how accessible it is. You don't have to read 200 page manual just to be able to play the game. Just jump in and play and in no time you will feel like an ace fighter pilot defending liberty in World War II.

The graphics in SWON are gorgeous, and the sound and music are second to none. I strongly recommend Secret Weapons Over Normandy!

Don't bother - worse than I ever imagined. I gave it a 1 star, only because they didn't have a 0.