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Evil Avatar
06-17-2009, 03:43 PM
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For your Wednesday viewing pleasure, 505 Games sends along the official trailer for their console flight sim, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey.

505 Games will be bringing 1C Publishing’s IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey to the console market for the first time. Developed by Gaijin Entertainment for Xbox 360 and PS3, DiP Interactive for Nintendo DS and DYNAMICSYSTEMS for PSP, the game takes place during the greatest aerial battles of all time (discounting Pterosaurs) and boasts the most realistic landscapes and aircraft seen in any flight sim. IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey will be published by 505 Games under the 1C Label and is due for a 2009 release.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is based around large-scale aerial combat over the ground-based military operations of World War II. Players participate in the war’s most famous confrontations piloting fighters, battle planes or heavy bombers across a range of thrilling missions. There are five seats of war to engage in – The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun – representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.

As well as advanced environmental visuals enriching the game play, IL-2 also boasts an all new damage effects engine. Players can see real time damage to the aircraft such as holes in the wings and trail lines during dog fights. Hundreds of airplanes taking part in air battles is a distinguishing feature of IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey and the unique environmental engine also produces highly detailed, realistic landscapes that allows players to see a brand new simulation of ground support actions.

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Evil Avatar
06-17-2009, 03:44 PM
DR8HmWUMHuk

the Jack
06-17-2009, 05:42 PM
Wow.

I remember when this was the peak of realism:

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With the constant onslaught of FPS and TPS over the years I'd forgotten about WW flight combat sims. This looks pretty wicked.

chazio
06-17-2009, 06:25 PM
it looks beautiful! i love the older IL-2 Sturmovik games on the PC, great to see this console version looking great!

Fuzzy
06-17-2009, 06:46 PM
Lack of PC version annoys me deeply :(

GunnSgtHartman
06-17-2009, 06:48 PM
Dear EA,

Can we get a new Chuck Yeager Air Combat game?

Thanks,

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Your Senior Drill Instructor.

ThomasPaine
06-17-2009, 08:02 PM
I can't figure out why they don't make a PC version...wtf? I mean comeonnnnn.....

Dag-Sabot
06-17-2009, 08:06 PM
Sweet theres no way my pc would be able to run this... beautiful.

Evil Avatar
06-17-2009, 11:13 PM
I can't figure out why they don't make a PC version...wtf? I mean comeonnnnn.....

Where have you been? :) There are about a dozen PC versions of this game. Hit GoGamer (You remember GoGamer we link to them every week!) and search for IL-2 and you will find a bunch of different versions including some nice value priced compilations.

There is a version available on Steam for $9.99 including all the IL-2 content and expansions.

Meusli
06-18-2009, 12:12 AM
This game is an updated version of Il2 made specifically for consoles, Oleg Maddox the creator of Il2 has only a mild consultant role in this game. He his currently busy working on Battle Of Britain:Storms Of War (http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=2040) , which is due to be released next year. According to Oleg it will be the most amazing Flight Sim ever and going off how Il2 is I can believe him.

Evil Avatar
06-18-2009, 12:41 AM
This game is an updated version of Il2 made specifically for consoles, Oleg Maddox the creator of Il2 has only a mild consultant role in this game. He his currently busy working on Battle Of Britain:Storms Of War (http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=2040) , which is due to be released next year. According to Oleg it will be the most amazing Flight Sim ever and going off how Il2 is I can believe him.

Ever play Air Warrior III online? Oleg has a long way to go with multiplayer before he can impress me. :p

Meusli
06-18-2009, 01:31 AM
That was a game that I always wanted to play online, sadly I only played it offline for about 5 min before I got bored(no internet in them days for me). I got my WW2 kicks from the Aces series by Dynamics which I still own to this day!

Shifter
06-18-2009, 05:38 AM
I hope the single player is improved over the PC versions. I tried a number of them and the flying was awesome, but at the end of the day it was pretty boring.

Divorced
06-18-2009, 01:38 PM
Wow.

I remember when this was the peak of realism:

http://homepage.mac.com/the.jack/.Pictures/bob.gif

With the constant onslaught of FPS and TPS over the years I'd forgotten about WW flight combat sims. This looks pretty wicked.


Don't be dissing the awesomeness that is Their Finest Hour. LucasArts ruled in those days. I still have the manuals to Battlehawks, TFH and SWOTL. Great reads all of them.

lallous
06-18-2009, 02:06 PM
How steep is the learning curve for the previous PC versions?