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Summary: awesome!
Review: The best combat flight simulator yet! Obviously not done for the sole purpose of selling new computers (like the microsoft games). Il2 sturmovic was the best and this is the same thing taken further. Fly multi-engine bombers and the stuka. At first I thought there were insufficient single missions--but that is because it is so blindingly easy to knock them together yourself of Ouick Mission Builder. This game has infinite difficulty and complexity for the simulator fanatic and yet when set on easy is just fine for the total beginner. Manual is inadequate, as was the Il 2 manual--but that is no big deal, you can puzzle it all out easily enough. You can save the tracks of your missions and watch them afterwards like a movie--except that you have the ability to pan the camera around the battle zone as you watch. Also it is possible to watch yourself in action from outside the plane. Highly recommended all round. Also very good historicaly. Now if they would just bring out a World War One game--Red Baron, but with all this games graphics and modeling--I would be in heaven.
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Summary: The Best
Review: This game (or simulation or whatever) is the very best of the genre. The graphics are not only amazing, they are carefully researched to be completely accurate in their representation of WWII planes.Although it takes a fairly muscular system to run this game with all the graphics turned up, it is so good that it alone is a reason to dump your old system and buy a new one. My rating would have been five stars but for one minor irritant. The latest upgrade patch is gigantic (over 80 MB), and yet I can find no evidence that UBI Soft will provide a CD ROM disk for this patch. This is a real problem for those of us who live where a high-speed internet connection is unavailable or unaffordable. I would gladly pay a nominal fee for a CD ROM patch if they would just offer one. But make no mistake. My game ran flawlessly out of the box and was worth twice what I paid for it at full retail, which is more than I can say for many other high-end simulations I have purchased.
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Summary: The Best
Review: This game (or simulation or whatever) is the very best of the genre. The graphics are not only amazing, they are carefully researched to be completely accurate in their representation of WWII planes. Although it takes a fairly muscular system to run this game with all the graphics turned up, it is so good that it alone is a reason to dump your old system and buy a new one. My rating would have been five stars but for one minor irritant. The latest upgrade patch is gigantic (over 80 MB), and yet I can find no evidence that UBI Soft will provide a CD ROM disk for this patch. This is a real problem for those of us who live where a high-speed internet connection is unavailable or unaffordable. I would gladly pay a nominal fee for a CD ROM patch if they would just offer one. But make no mistake. My game ran flawlessly out of the box and was worth twice what I paid for it at full retail, which is more than I can say for many other high-end simulations I have purchased.
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Summary: Overrated
Review: This game is 90% hype and 10% graphics. Highly overrated and very demanding of system resources. Be prepared to tweak your system to suit this game, and if it adversely affects other games - too bad. The sound is the worst I've ever heard even at that. CFS3 is FAR superior in that area. And, you will need to turn your sound hardware acceleration down just to avoid bugs. There is no "runway" selection for free flights. You can only start in the air. So you can't test various planes. Graphics are unmatched, though. Lots of eye candy if you have the hardware for it and you tweak your system properly.
Rich
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Summary: flying bricks....
Review: this game used to be good...real good. ahh, the FM in original il2...waiting for FB to be released as a patch. ubisoft put a 50 dollar price tag on FB and made it a retail while it was really an upgrade to the original IL2. FM was slightly improved, graphics improved, a lot more aircraft added. but given that CFS3 sucked, FB was the only way to go...and believe me, i didnt even care about the price...it was still an awesome game...that is until they released patch 1.11 -- the airplanes have turned into flying bricks...they really whacked their FM into some unreal weirdity...i've lost all passion for this game...it just isn't fun anymore. no i didnt just play the new version, i've been playing it for a couple of months now. i figured if i get used to it i'll like it, but the more i play the more unrealistic it seems to get. cheers,
eftal sogukoglu
madturk
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Summary: The best kept secret in the flight sim community
Review: This is the best combat flight simulator ever made! I agree it does make the Microsoft Flight simulators and any other flight sim look like high school science projects!! This game builds upon the previous champ of the combat flight sim market the IL2-Sturmovik.. The programmers of this game and a gentleman by the name of Oleg Maddox (u will become quite familiar with this name soon!) have put their life and soul into this product.. This is not just a vehicle to make money like Combat Flight Simulator 3 this is a work of art to put it simply.. These gentlemen have enriched my life with their product. I am now part of a Canadian squadron the RCAF 401... and fly online with my squadron mates on Hyperlobby.. To say we have fun is an understatement.. The competition online is fantastic as is the gameplay of this product.. I've been playing the predecessor to this game (IL2 Sturmovik) online for almost 2 years now almost every chance I get.. My wife is ready to throw me out of the house! It's difficult to express how well the game looks and feels when you are playing it. The only way to compare it would be to go back to 1944 and jump into an ME262 Schwalbe and take a spin.. Then you could compare! If you don't believe me hop over to the development site and take a look at the screenshots from the game...Even novices can learn this game when the difficulty level is taken down. U can even go invincible! You can also slow down the time down too! When you get good enough to compete with live opponents jump online and gove me a try.. My callsign is: #401Cdn.GATOR The best joystick to play this game (IMHO) is Microsoft Force Feedback 2.. (see? I am not biased when Microsoft does something good I'll tout it..).. I also have purchased USB rudder pedals from ChPro to add to the realism and enhance my online competitiveness.. With 3rd party voice communications software you and your squadron mates can fly together as a team and cover each other's sixes.. There doesn't pass a day that I learn something new about this game and how to fly my fav plane (Me109) better.. That's what's amazing is the depth of this game.. You can play it for a year and still find new things to explore and better ways to improve ur flying.. This is a game for teenagers and adults. In fact most of the people you'll find online are in their thirties and forties.. This is not a game.... This is a way of life... Best Regards, #401Cdn.GATOR P.S. Buy this game and check your six!!
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Summary: Greate game! Great service! Thanks Amazon.com
Review: This is the best flight simulation.
It is real and good way to learn history and planes info.
Thanks Amazon.com for good service. Gennady New York
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Summary: Does Not Work
Review: This might be a good game if it would run. I can not get this game to run more then once after installing it. My system is more then able handle the game,it just has so many problems and lame support/patch that it does not work.
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Summary: Great Flight Sim with a Dizzying Amount of New Features
Review: Three versions of the Ju-87 Stuka. Three versions of the P-47 Thunderbolt. P-51 Mustang. Two versions of the He-111 bomber with pilot, bombardier and five gunner positions. Soviet TB-3 four-engine bomber with pilot, bombardier and three gunners. Two versions of the Me-262 jet. Whole new airforce - Finnish - with virtually all its planes modeled. Many more new planes. Dynamic campaign for Russian, German, Hungarian and Finnish pilots in fighter, ground attack and bomber roles. Squadron rosters, with faces from pilot photos also appearing inside their cockpits in the game engine. Famous aces flying with and against you in the campaign, with historical unique camo schemes. Complex engine management with prop pitch, mixture, superchargers and more. Incredible new maps, larger and more complex than anything you've ever seen before. Whole cities of Leningrad and Helsinki modeled on the same map with many landmarks in the way MS Flight Simulator series never approached even remotely. More realistic navigation - you can actually fly from Leningrad to Helsinki in a single flight using a real world map. And all this smoothly playable on a mid-range machine in the way MS never thought possible. 1C:Maddox Games flight sims actually ARE as real - and as good - as it gets. P.S. Rob Orwin: maybe the people reviewing the game before it was out have still somehow played it. Ever heard of a beta test?
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Summary: wow
Review: Very real, one of the best WWII combat air simulations ever. Highly recommended.
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