![]() I had heard of the MiG-3 and the IL-2 and the famous Battle of Stalingrad but little else. #IL 2 STURMOVIK BIRDS OF PREY PC DEMO SERIES#One of the biggest breakthroughs that the series had was introducing many of us to the eastern front of World War II in a way that most of us had never been exposed to before. But what I most loved was the sensation of flight that the series offered. The interface was spartan but workable, the aircraft flew well, the damage model was impressive, the music… unforgettably quirky. I had read about it one of the various aircraft encyclopedia’s that I had but it didn’t capture my imagination like the stories of Spitfires and Hurricanes challenging the Bf109 for control of the skies during the Battle of Britain.Īfter Combat Flight Simulator 3 proved to be critically buggy, many in the community went looking for other options and IL-2 Sturmovik had a demo that easily won me over. A new flight sim from a studio in Russia about a Russian aircraft that I didn’t know very much about. When I first heard about IL-2 Sturmovik I was like, I think, many people who dismissed it. Now, 20-years on the series is still going strong! Back in the old days Maddox Games’ IL-2 Sturmovik introduced a series of firsts into the flight simulation market with its focus on the eastern front and, to most of us in the west, a little known attack aircraft called the Ilyushin IL-2. ![]() On November 18, 2001, 1C and Ubisoft released a brand-new flight sim from a little-known development studio based in Russia. ![]()
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