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piece of junk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: May 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

no good on xp and nivida there web site says there products may or may not work on xp stay away from ubisoft

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

IL-2 Redux...I tried again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 18
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

OK,

I loaded this thign up again. After seeing all the hero worship about this game, I thought I may have missed something in my first attempt at it, so here we go again.

Visuals: I still like the planes in CFS2 much better, IL-2 looks too shiny, somewhat like a plastic model. Clouds and terrain, i will give IL-2 the advantage over the stock MS ones, but that equals if you use after market stuff for CFS2.

Flight models/Damage models: In the flight model department, stock out of the box, a slight edge to IL-2, but only slightly. After flying a 1%, the edge back to MS. Damage models, MS has it all over IL-2, or at least, all over IL-2's soviet planes.

Gameplay offline: MS, no contest

Gameplay online: IL-2

General comments: I still wanted to like this thing... The game loads slow throughout the various screens, settings are counter-intuitive, and I didn't care for the interface, but beyond that, there is a definite, built in, bias to everything soviet. Makes me wonder how the Luftwaffe racked up such amazing scores flying against such aircraft as the YAKS are in this game. Oh well, history is wrong, Oleg the sun god is correct.

The eastern front has never been a very interesting area to simulate, precisely because it was so lopsided. I guess you could simulate not having replacement parts and gasoline, that would make it historically accurate. But once airborne.....

Back to the shelf...here's hoping CFS3 supports carrier operations.

Can't load it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: September 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have a Pentium III 700 mhz and XP operating system with an ATI rage 3D card..
I can't get this sim to run at all....CFS II and Strike Fighters run great on my computer. Microsoft makes the best flight sims.

Poor flight model

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've logged over 70 hours on MS Flight Simulator X (including beating the course record on the challenging Red Bull time coure), so that is my standard for flight model realism. By that standard, IL-2 is garbage. If planes actually flew that poorly in WW II, half of the pilots would have crashed within minutes of take off because they couldn't get the aircraft to generate enough lift or speed. Unless I trick the P-39 sim model by doing stupid little 20 foot drives to build up speed, it flies flat at 170 for minutes, even at max throttle.

Once the pilot gets the plane above 200 it handle all right, but most of those lucky WWII pilots who made it off the ground would have died after their first moderately aggressive bank, because the planes stall precipitous without warning into full-on, unrecoverable flat spins. In FSX, the immediate signs of a stall are sharp yawing and pitching. You have to react very quickly, but if you break conditions precipitating the stall, you can recover.

I recommend trying the FSX and IL-2 demos before you consider wasting money on this one.

A Boring Experience

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: October 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've tried this game a number of times, but the most exciting thing I've done so far is crash. I diligently follow all the headings and altitudes but never seem to be able to find the enemy. So I just fly, and fly and fly, look at the clouds, get tired of it and quit the game. What game? I am looking forward to Combat Flight Simulator 3.

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.

Don't Waste Your Money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 22
Date: December 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I agree with those who like the graphics of this game. I also like the idea of flying Soviet WWII aircraft. I looked forwarded receiving this game, boy was I disapointed with the way it ran. Very slow going from one menu to another. Freezing a lot of the time. I spent more time unfreezing, or trying to, than playing the game. I got tired of fighting it when it shut down for no reason. When it ran right, I did have fun with it. For the price it should run smoother. If this the best this company can do, I wouldn't buy stock in it.

WW2 FIGHTERS SPOILED ME!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really dislike negative reviews so will not knock sturmovik, but having really tried almost every flight sim on the mkt. and there are many, I simply cannot find one as realistic as ww2fighters=the graphics and special effects are awesome=If you can find this game you will be amazed at the conrol of the aircraft, special effects and the wonderful graphics=ten times better than any flight sim available=If you have not tried it you are missing the ultimate! You might locate it at amazon.com's third party sellers as a used item=Its simple a wonderful game!

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~

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