Posted July 14, 2009
BUY THIS SIM, it is almost complete air-warfare of WW2 in one package, you won't regret it, and please listen to me for why you should buy it.
I first played this game when it first came out, first IL-2 only featured well modelled russian IL-2 Sturmovik assault-bomber and few playable fighters.
The next add-on "forgotten battles" included lot more fighters, bombers, dive bombers, assault-fighters and name forgotten battles came from the fact that what it added was campaings from sides of war you hardly ever even hear of...
what do you know of Hungarian, Romanian, Polish or Finnish ww2 history? yes, they all have campaigns now. This sim can teach you a lot, and is also very VERY entertaining.
The next add on to the game was "ace-expansion" which added few more planes, including first jet-fighters and few rocket-fighters which were most left into prototype phase.
The NEXT addon was Pacific Fighters, which now added Pacific campaign featuring americans vs. japanese, but you can also fly with british royal airforce or australian airforce who were serving in the same theater this means again, lot of new bombers and fighters, japanese, american and british alike.
and the Last add-on to the game was 1946, which is compilation of prototype airplanes which were either too hard to produce, or simply could not be finished into production until ww2 was over. It takes place in year 1946 where german was NOT defeated in 45 and continues the fight, and takes those prototype planes into the sky of berlin in few campaigns and single misions, realistic?, no... intresting? VERY...
And all of these add-ons are built on to the main game, they include campaings, single missions, huge amount of flyable and realistically featured planes, and they are all in this very package.
Don't get me wrong in those last lines about 1946, the game is VERY realistic, flight models are very well made, especially if you look at how many planes there are. You can feel the love that game makers have for war history and flight-combat simulators. This game does so many things right, and the graphics are decent still to this day, if I REALLY need to find something to whine about, I find the mission editor rather confusing, but I never got into it really. I just love flying :)
So in overall... what you get is 5 games in one package... for 10 USD... that is a deal I have never seen before.
I personally bought everyone of these games one by one, concidering also that I'm simulator gamer I could also count the joysticks and other gaming gear I've bought, I'd say I've spent more than 500 € into this... and I don't feel any regrets :)
And you can get rather good "casual gamer" joystick for 30 USD, it's no problem. and the game for only 10 USD. It's a bargain to say the least. Once in a lifetime chance to get into very good simulator game, WITHOUT the financial commitment that most of "hardcore" simulator players have to go through.
I've gone long enough now, go and buy the damn game. It's easily my favorite simulator of all time, and for Good Old Gamers, only for 10 USD. Don't miss this :)
PS. when you start to play, go for realism from the start, if you get yourself used to "arcade" easy diffuculty, it's harder to get into realistic feeling. But if you start with realistic, you'll never go back to arcade titles :)
Thank you for reading.
I first played this game when it first came out, first IL-2 only featured well modelled russian IL-2 Sturmovik assault-bomber and few playable fighters.
The next add-on "forgotten battles" included lot more fighters, bombers, dive bombers, assault-fighters and name forgotten battles came from the fact that what it added was campaings from sides of war you hardly ever even hear of...
what do you know of Hungarian, Romanian, Polish or Finnish ww2 history? yes, they all have campaigns now. This sim can teach you a lot, and is also very VERY entertaining.
The next add on to the game was "ace-expansion" which added few more planes, including first jet-fighters and few rocket-fighters which were most left into prototype phase.
The NEXT addon was Pacific Fighters, which now added Pacific campaign featuring americans vs. japanese, but you can also fly with british royal airforce or australian airforce who were serving in the same theater this means again, lot of new bombers and fighters, japanese, american and british alike.
and the Last add-on to the game was 1946, which is compilation of prototype airplanes which were either too hard to produce, or simply could not be finished into production until ww2 was over. It takes place in year 1946 where german was NOT defeated in 45 and continues the fight, and takes those prototype planes into the sky of berlin in few campaigns and single misions, realistic?, no... intresting? VERY...
And all of these add-ons are built on to the main game, they include campaings, single missions, huge amount of flyable and realistically featured planes, and they are all in this very package.
Don't get me wrong in those last lines about 1946, the game is VERY realistic, flight models are very well made, especially if you look at how many planes there are. You can feel the love that game makers have for war history and flight-combat simulators. This game does so many things right, and the graphics are decent still to this day, if I REALLY need to find something to whine about, I find the mission editor rather confusing, but I never got into it really. I just love flying :)
So in overall... what you get is 5 games in one package... for 10 USD... that is a deal I have never seen before.
I personally bought everyone of these games one by one, concidering also that I'm simulator gamer I could also count the joysticks and other gaming gear I've bought, I'd say I've spent more than 500 € into this... and I don't feel any regrets :)
And you can get rather good "casual gamer" joystick for 30 USD, it's no problem. and the game for only 10 USD. It's a bargain to say the least. Once in a lifetime chance to get into very good simulator game, WITHOUT the financial commitment that most of "hardcore" simulator players have to go through.
I've gone long enough now, go and buy the damn game. It's easily my favorite simulator of all time, and for Good Old Gamers, only for 10 USD. Don't miss this :)
PS. when you start to play, go for realism from the start, if you get yourself used to "arcade" easy diffuculty, it's harder to get into realistic feeling. But if you start with realistic, you'll never go back to arcade titles :)
Thank you for reading.