Conceived as a one plane sim, the game now boasts a stupendous selection of 200+ flyable aircraft. Over the years IL-2 has got fabulously fat. Probably the most striking difference between this version and the original is girth. On its release in 2001 IL-2 Sturmovik was a superb, ground-breaking sim it would, however, take five more years of add-ons, patches, semi-sequels, and community love to turn it into the incomparable genre-dominating colossus you'll find on this Complete Edition DVD. Angelic hostĪlright, perhaps that last statement is a tad misleading.
DF perished before ever leaving the ground FC:TOE arrived years late, a buggy and dated mess CFS2 sold like hot cakes but left no significant legacy IL-2 Sturmovik, the dark horse from Moscow, turned-out to be the greatest combat flight sim ever made. Oh yes, there was also a small Russian outfit with no sim track-record whatsoever, working on a game about an obscure Soviet ground-attack aircraft.Īs it turned-out, the fates of these four sims couldn't have been more different or less predictable.
#IL 2 STURMOVIK BATTLE OF MOSCOW SIMULATOR#
Microsoft were in the midst of a Pacific theatre Combat Flight Simulator sequel. At Looking Glass Studios, the talented Flight Unlimited team were busy with Flight Combat: Thunder Over Europe. Dynamix, the makers of the iconic Red Baron, were beavering away on Desert Fighters. The summer of 1999 was an exciting time to be a WW2 flight simulation fan.
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