Posts tagged “IL-2 Sturmovik”

A is for Another Automobilista. Automobilista, the sim that stormed to victory in the single-player portion of the inaugural Flare Path Grand Prix (a popularity contest for race sims) is to get a sequel in December and interestingly the sequel will rely on an engine last seen in Project CARS 2. As Reiza explained to www.racedepartment.com, the graphical prowess and “smooth as butter” fluency of…

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A is for Altfuture's abject apology. From the tone of Altfuture's last announcement you'd think unconventional, timetable-shunning train sim Derail Valley had run over the last northern hairy-nosed wombat or trumped during an audience with the Queen. Jan 18's “very bad” news turned out to be news of a piffling seven-day release delay. The rescheduled ribbon-cutting should happen today. Expect some thoughts on the sim's 200km…

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Although IL-2 Sturmovik's new Rise of Flight-style career mode looks decidedly unambitious when set beside the best the genre can offer a solo campaigner, it's a big improvement on what it replaces and, assuming you're playing with the 'iron man' box ticked and don't wander too far from assigned routes, a powerful drama amplifier. During his first five randomly-generated sorties over the Kuban bridgehead, my…

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Gentlemen of England now a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here to read my IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kuban war diary, participate in today's Close Combat competition, assist in the defoxing of this fiendish word puzzle, and pedantically point out that “Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war” is from a completely different play to “Gentleman of England now a-bed shall…

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Ready to discover once-and-for-all whether X-Plane is better than FSX? Whether Falcon 4.0 is better than Milk Float Simulator 2012? Ready to read the word 'realism' 46 times in a single hour, and spit feathers on discovering that the sim that caused got you through your divorce has been cruelly cold-shouldered by an idiot with a bus fetish and a sci-fi blindspot the size of…

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