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On the basis of the demo....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 22
Date: October 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

On the basis of the demo, which was an earlier build of the beta, this sim will be the new benchmark. Outstanding graphics, good flightmodels, and an excellent track recording feature.

I've got about a dozen flightsims on my computer, and about the only thing I "fly" anymore is the Il-2 demo! It's that good.

If you like combat flightsims, or have always thought you might like to try one, you cannot go wrong with Il-2 Sturmovik.

If you felt burned by BoB, MSCFS2, or B-17II, this is a completely different animal. Five stars (and remember, this is just the demo!) :-)

IL2 Sturmovik The Demo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A golden sun shone through the mists of the early morning Russian Steppes, and the stillness was broken only by me starting the engine of this beautiful aircraft I had beneath me.....
Once I was airborne I opted for the easiest choice and pressed A and the autopilot came on. I decided I would take advantage of this moment to jump into the back seat where the rear gunner was.

At this point I became aware of how the water in the rivers and lakes looked, well, cliched as it may be - like water....I swear it ripples if you get down close enough....undoubtedly the best simulated water Ive seen - and Ive seen oceans of the stuff.
I came under attack from marauding 109s and the plane,in trying to avoid the fighters, was jinking all over the place, making a clean shot VERY difficult to get. When a 109 did close on us from behind, I moved to TARGET VIEW and got the him right in my sights. Very good fun and very hard...and yes, I shot me own tail by mistake.

CONCLUSION
Superb interpretation of flight - the best this reviewer has seen.
Great scenery - equal to if not better than recent flight sims.
Hugely enjoyable gameplay with many variants possible.
The sound files are superb.
The graphic detail of objects, even on default settings, is exceptional.
Many skins available for supplied aircraft with the demo.
Opponent CHASE VIEW.
Object modelling (cockpit, ordnance, terrain, weather, static and moving objects).
User flyable combat missions

You have to get IL2 - it really is that simple.

WELL....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love flight simulation games and I love WWII flight games... Yet i am disapointed that this game does not meet the standards of a decent Flight simulator game... the graphics aren't that great and the enemy fighters are so easy to shoot down it takes the honor out of victory... However due to the lack of WWII simulation games I guess this will have to do~

Finest Flight Sim Ever Produced

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 64 / 68
Date: November 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Il-2 is something that gamers and flight simulator enthusiasts could only hope for. It beats anything ever produced so far. The simulator was designed by pilots for pilots. Many of the people in the design team of Maddox Games have experience in the aviation industry. Much of the design of the game was done with the input from gamers in the internet flight-simulation community. Never has a developer been so keen on what his customers wanted.

Even the "newbies" will have a lot of fun with the easier settings which make this incredibly accurate flight simulator an easier "video-game" stile game. However, the fun is really in the realism that IL-2 delivers, and soon there will be a lot more fans of flight-simulation once gamers take a look at the absolutely best graphics ever seen in a World War Two sim.

This simulator includes the Eastern Front theater, in which the Soviet Union fought against the German Forces in World War II. You will be able to play for either the Soviets or the Germans. Many of the aircraft modelled have never been modelled before as an integral part of a flight simulator, like the Messerschmitt Me-321 and Me-323 Gigant, the Fieseler Fi-156 Storch, the Focke-Wulf Fw-189 Uhu, the Polikarpov I-153 Chaika, the Polikarpov Po-2 (U2), the Lavochkin La-7, the Bell P-39 Airacobra, and the Rumanian IAR-80 and 81.

Of all the flight simulators I have ever played, none have better virtual cockpits or flight characteristics. Each flyable plane has extremely photorealistic cockpits. The flight model is impeccable. The handling of each subtype of aircraft is accurate. For the first time ever I was able to feel how hard but how efficient it was to fly a German Messerchmitt Bf-109G-2. One of my all time favorites, the USA Lend-Leased P-39 Airacobra is an incredible machine, but you will learn why it was such a demanding craft to fly. The star of the game is definitely the Soviet ground attack plane IL-2, of which you will be able to fly something like 7 different versions, each accurately modelled, and with the option to play as rear-gunner too. The campaigns in the game are historical.

For multiplayer, you will be able to play through the Internet, both joining sessions, hosting your own, or through the Ubisoft game service. Ubisoft is publishing the game. Anyway, you can have up to 32 people in dogfights, or up to 16 people in full cooperative missions. I already wasted hours and hours playing over the Internet with the Demo. It is just incredible.

IL-2 has many great features. It has a training feature. It includes both a Quick Mission Builder, to allow players to build fast missions to get on with flying (and being able to save and load), as well as a Full Mission Builder, that gives the mission builders the ability to create missions that are as simple or as complex as possible, accessing every feature of the game, all maps, all aircraft (including Aces), stationary objects (parked planes, trucks, tanks, artillery, etc), ships, trains, tanks, vehicle columns, etc. You will be able to build from the simplest single player mission to complex multiplayer missions. You can even build cinema like missions that you can just watch AI play it, and you can take beautiful screenshots. There is a mission recorder so that you can watch your missiohn after you are done, and you can save it to watch later. Finally, you can dstribute your mission recordings, your screenshots, and your custom missions through the Internet for all to see.

If there is a negative point to IL-2 is the fact that you cannot fly every single plane. But a huge internet community already has been formed with modellers and programmers who are producing cockpits, add-on aplications, and even completely new aircraft and other models for IL-2 with the support of the developers, who will actually approve addons and make them available through the Internet as a part of the sim (for free in most cases), as opposed to the usual unfinished feel that many games and simulators get when a custom addition is made. Also, this is no simple game, it is a demanding simulation, make sure you have a descent 3D video card that supports OpenGL (DirectX is also supported), you want to be able to see those incredible details, and the more RAM the better.

I have never been this happy with any other PC product. I played the Demo for days non-stop. I am afraid after you play IL-2, you will simply uninstall every other flight simulator you ever played. I have played just about every WW2 simulator ever made, including Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Aces Over Europe, European Air War, Screaming Demons Over Europe, B-17II, Battle of Britain, Air Warrior, Aces High, Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2, and Jane's WW2 Fighters, amongst some others. I have to say that IL-2 has to be the most accurate of all. Not only that, I have not played a more fun simulator since Jane's WW2 Fighters. This is just outstanding, and I am glad a developer finally got it right. After a while it gets tiring to spend money and have a mediocre product in your PC.

Go Oleg!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: November 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well what can I say... it is about the best dang flight sim ever made. (...)

It seems to have all of the options from all previous flight sims combined... combat or not. It comes from flight enthusiasts from Russia and has been in the works for many years and includes individual developement from many parts of the world. Oleg Maddox himself is an aeronautic engineer by trade in Russia and is an avid fan of virtual flying.

There is already a vast following from all flight sim venues and once you try it, I believe you will also become an avid fan if you are new to virtual flying or not.

The game is well thought out from all aspects and this review is only of the demo although I know many beta testers and have seen many screen shots as developement increased.

No, I am not a salesman for Ubisoft...hehe, just a southern boy that knows a good thing when he sees one. Let alone the 18+ yrs. I have been flyin computer sims. This sim will be THE benchmark for all further flight sim development. Mark my words...

IL-2 Sturmovik -- A Definite Winner!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 27
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm a WWII buff and a flight sim fanatic, so it was only natural that I was waiting for IL-2 Sturmovik since it was announced. And, it turns out, I was not disappointed at all.

The graphics of the game are no less than astounding, each screenshot is fit for framing in a fine arts museum. The flight model, since the game was created by two aeronautical engineers, is relentless; it's definitely for the pros but provides for hours of entertainment while you learn how to fight in the sulky IL-2 Sturmovik. The explosions are terrifyingly real and the wingman messages are even entertaining.

This is definitely a $50.00 game masquerading for $39.99. If you know anyone who is even remotely interested in war or flight, this is definitely a great game for them to have.

Awesome - Believe the Hype!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a long-time simmer I've seen alot of buggy, mediocre and half-finished products. Il-2 therefore comes as a wonderful new addition to World War prop sims.

Ran very smoothly on my midrange 900MHz/Voodoo 5 machine at medium details after playing with the settings. No significant bugs or technical issues running it.

Graphics are awesome and in fact are beautiful. A wide range of aircraft is available many of which have never been properly modeled in a sim before, including the P-39 which was quite a high-performer on the Eastern Front where it's low-level capabilities came into play.

The enemy AI is quite good and includes "super-ace" mode in which you can actually fly against aces like Erich Hartmann in his tulip-nosed Bf-109.

Ground pounding is superb and offers a wide-range of targets. It is sophisticated in that to destroy a tank, for example, you have to strike it in the thinner armor areas of the top and rear.

There is a sophisticated mission builder in which you can put together your own missions and include tanks and ships which will actually fight one another.

There is also the ability to save your missions as tracks and review them later from various viewpoints and send them back and forth to friends.

Multiplayer is good and virtually lag free, as long as you are using a good online lobby, the one packaged with Il-2 seems to cause some problems but other gaming sites are setting up servers to run it. Hyperlobby is an alternative that works great.

It is also highly configurable so that newbies can start out easy and activate more advanced features. It also includes helpful training missions to show you the ropes.

Only downside is that the interface is a little bland and there is not a dynamic campaign included out of the box.

If you consider yourself a flight sim fanatic or are interested in the air war on the Eastern Front this is one you shouldn't miss.

Best combat flight sim ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 21
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am a pilot and a World War II buff. This game is the most beautiful flight sim ever - including civilian titles (yes, I have FS 2002). For the first hour of flying I stared in awe at the incredible graphics while getting used to the aircraft - not even engaging in combat! It only gets better from there.

IL-2 web sites for players reveal that there are many new add-on aircraft, missions and campaigns under development - incredible for such a new title.

All of that graphic beauty and combat detail require a fairly powerful computer to really make it come alive. I have a PIII 1GHz machine with 384MB of RAM and a GeForce3 Ti 500 - and have plenty of power to run the program with all image and realism settings maxed out. You may not need that much, but your system needs to be in the major leagues with a fully updated set of drivers to hold its own.

Happy hunting!

best combat flight sim on the market

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 18
Date: December 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I could talk about the great graphics or game play, but I think a testimonial will suffice:
A band mate of mine brought this game over last night... this morning I went out and bought 2 copies (1 for myself and 1 for my brother in Colorado).
My other band mate (the one in the group who has the luxery of living off his wife's income) exclaimed, "I'm going to do anything it takes to get this game... even if it means getting a job!" Enough said?

My only disappointment is that I bought MS Combat Flight Sim (Pacific Front) about a month ago (a waste of money when compared to IL-2)!

don't believe the hype

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 24
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

if you thought rowans battle of britain was a stinker wait till you play this one. it's a cross between janes and rowan, the worst of both. the only thing it has going for it is that it takes place on the eastern front.the multiplayer level is a joke, i was able to play only once due to my computer freezing up and trust me i'm running a great system. if you ask me microsoft cfs2 and cfs1 are still the best out there. but,overall it kept my interest for about a day.
completly boring.

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