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Pure air combat excellence . . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Great, all I can say. I love diving out of the sun in a MiG-3 and ripping a couple Bf-109s to pieces while dodging flying shrapnel from the following explosion as bullets fly. A great Soviet WWII combat flight simulator.

Great flight sim, very good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As a flight sim I think IL-2 is superb. Very realistic flight model, excellent virtual cockpit, great sounds. The only things lacking are the small nuances such as prop pitch settings or fuel mixture adjustment, but few people use those anyway. As a game I would say it's good. There are only a couple campaigns. The briefings are pretty dull, and there is little sense of what is going on in the world or any connection between missions. But the graphics are just awesome, better than any other flight sim by far. Where else can you see individual soldiers jumping out of their lorry and running for their lives as you blast it to bits with your 23mm cannon?

I am not saying it is a bad game......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: October 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this game the other day, I had looked at it when it first came out and wanted to wait a little time for any bugs to be taken care of. I will come out and say this first, the website and updates are great. For a game that is a little "old" the community is great, and the fixes and updates are very active.

The looks to the game are great. It is a higher end game so if your running anything under 800 you might not get a real good idea. One thing that does bother me, it does get a bit boring to play. Yes shooting at stuff and taking out planes or ground targets is fun, but after a while getting to where you need to go can be long and very boring.

The sounds are great in game, I do get a few odd delays but that is far from a complaint. The idea that you can make your own campains and quick missions is great, it does add alot to the game. I just think it has fallen a little short of what I was looking for.

100% realistic.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After playing WWII, with a no-mistakes-AI-enemy pilots, it's refreshing to play against a more "human" AI enemy. The computer makes "mistakes". All this happens in one of the best simulating games that I've ever seen in my life. The grahics are incedible and just beautiful.

You should at least get the demo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is my second flight sim and I this one is much better. Why? Well, for one thing it's more accessible. Sure, the manual is too small and the gray on gray print is illegible, but you don't need the manual that much. I needed it to turn on the engine because I didn't know that I turns it on. Everywhere I looked, they told me how to rev up the motor and the booster and set trim tabs, but nowhere could I find out that I turned on the engine. Once you get the engine running, the game is fun. You will be sucked in by the exhaust cloud as the plane sputters to life. The scenery looks great from the air, especially the planes. The water and sky are fantastic.

A couple of quick tips. In takeoff just get the plane going down the runway by throttling up. Don't worry about tilting forward or back during this. All you have to do is keep it going straight with the z and x keys or twisting the stick. The instant you are off the ground put up your landing gear with g. I kept reading about tilting forward and back on the runway and you don't do any of that. The plane is balanced, you don't pull back on the stick til you're ready to leave the ground.

The flying in this game feels good. You feel like you're being pulled around by a prop while rather delicately balanced. Mistakes and manhandling will lead to crashes, but so will just keeping the nose to high to get altitude. You can have the wrong flight angle and just not build up speed. Eventually you'll fall to the ground

Probably the best part of the game though is the damage model. I think this is what sold me on Il Sturmovik. If you watch from the f8 view, you'll see your plane coming apart in the air as another plane shoots it or it gets hit by AA. There are just so many ways to get damaged and it all affects the way the plane handles. It's fun to try to land a damaged plane. It's fun to try to bail out. It's a blast to fly and drop bombs. Many of these things are quite hard, but that's a positive. They aren't boring. They might be frustrating, but they'll keep you coming back trying to perfect your skills.

The demo has about everything you could want from this game, but the mission editor is fun too. I've spent quite a bit of time designing, flying in or just watching some amazing attacks with gigantic bombers and large explosives. A lot could have been done to make the mission editor better. For one thing they could have some keyboard controls to let you zoom in and out of a scene. Right now the only way to zoom in is to use a tiny slider on the left. Putting in objects like armor or planes is also rather a case of working in the dark. They don't tell you if this particular piece will fire on anything or not. Everything is labeled with it's military number. You get a small rotatable picture, but I'd have liked to make it bigger. If you place a bunch of objects, like tanks and then discover they are the wrong color, let's say blue for Germans and you meant them to be red, you now have to click on each one and change it. Tedious. Very tedious. I can't believe they made the missions using this, but then again, I can believe they made the missions like this. The mission are the worst part of the game.

They are nice missions, but they involve a lot of flying. Even with the time speeded up 8X, they take time and you can't save to retry your bombing run. You have to start from the beginning. The targets are tiny specks. Ground objects are not labeled. Only way to know if they are enemies is to look at the map, which is it's own set of problems.

In the end you will find that Il Sturmovik is so good at some things it will make you put up with a lot of junk in other things. You'll probably love quickmission or online dogfighting, but the campaigns and missions will leave you a little flat. The scenery, skies and replays with you moving the camera around will be fun, but setting up a mission will have you annoyed that it wasn't designed a little better.

Finally, to best enjoy this game you will want a geforce 3 with 500 RAM or more or so I've heard and you might still get the occasional stop in action, but it's pretty smooth for me. I feel I have good idea of how difficult it was to be a Russian pilot in WW2. I feel I've accomplished things and learned some skills. That can't be said for many games. I almost want to buy a plane now.

IL-2 A well -worth -it gaming experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

IL-2 Sturmovik is the best flight sim out there today, with everything putting all other sims to shame(even the excellent CFS2.)
Pros: great AI
excellent graphics
many planes to fly
and many other pros that makes this game a great buy.
Cons: Very Few, but to be fair, it is a little hard on those of us who can't or won't sit at our computers for an hour just waiting for something to happen. Also, when you fail a mission, you have to fly it it over. Very unrealistic in radio transmissions, as you don't hear yourself transmit, but on multiplayer you can type in messages and transmit them. The worst glitch is that those of us without high-end systems should hold off until their next upgrade. I reccomend 214-512 Megabytes and a Pentium IV woldn't hurt either.

Overall Rating: A five for sure. The graphical glitches don't cause the player to notice other bad parts, they actually remind one of aviation art.

Best WWII simulation game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is arguably the best WWII flight simulation game I've experienced so far, and it is much better than MicroSoft flight simulation series or any other games you can find. Excellent graphic quality. I highly recommend it.

poor software

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: May 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

no good on xp and nivida video card no help on there web site im not planing to change my computer for it they can say what they want about microsoft but there products always work for me

A Big WW2 fighter machine

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Il-2 is a BIG game.I like the game for the biggest part because it has above all the best graphics. Im running it on a Nvidia Geforce 2Gts. Enemys could blow your fighter down or blow your bomber up.My computer is a Amd Athlon Xp 1600+ with 512 Mb Ram.The processor is a pentium 4 1.80 Ghz.You dont need your computer that spiced up but has to be at least half.IL-2 is a must have.

best WW2 sim ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This I have to say is the best WW2 sim that I ever played. The highlights of this game is the startling realistic detailed graphics. For example, you see the dust behind the tanks when they are moving and the detailed ground targets and cities. The planes are also very detailed. The flight model is more involved than other sims. Sometimes, when your plane is shot you continue to fly but the speed is less from the damage, etc. The rockets and cannons are a challenge to use also. From what I can see, the only negative aspect is the lack of a dynamic campaign. But because of all the other positive aspects of the game, the game is still a winner all the way. I would recommend the game to anybody who wants a realistic, WW2 game which has great graphics.

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