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- Platform: Xbox 360
- PEGI Rating: Ages 7 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Description
Platform: Xbox 360
Manufacturer's Description
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey is based around large-scale aerial combat over the ground-based military operations of World War II. Participate in the war's most famous confrontations piloting fighters, battle planes or heavy bombers through a range of thrilling missions set over stunning landscapes - from the patchwork fields of Southern England to the smoking ruins of Stalingrad, all recreated with amazing detail.
As well as advanced environmental visuals IL-2 also boasts an all-new damage effects engine. Players can see real-time damage to the aircraft such as holes in the wings and trail lines during dog fights.
Product Description
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey is based around large-scale aerial combat over the ground-based military operations of World War II. Participate in the war's most famous confrontations piloting fighters, battle planes or heavy bombers through a range of thrilling missions set over stunning landscapes - from the patchwork fields of Southern England to the smoking ruins of Stalingrad, all recreated with amazing detail.
As well as advanced environmental visuals IL-2 also boasts an all-new damage effects engine. Players can see real-time damage to the aircraft such as holes in the wings and trail lines during dog fights.
- Engage in more 50 thrilling missions from famous historical battles over Eastern and Western Europe and fly historically accurate aircraft including the iconic Spitfire
- Choose a difficulty level to match your experience, from adrenaline-fuelled arcade action to realistic simulations
- Battle hundreds of enemy aces for control of the skies in intense multiplayer dogfights and bombing sorties
- Enjoy detailed visuals including revolutionary real-time damage effects and an atmospheric audio experience featuring a stunning soundtrack by Jeremy Soule
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
At last, a Flight simulator for the xbox 360. A real one. Until now, all the flight sim games for the 360 were pretty dull. Point your aircraft in the general direction of an enemy, wait for the beep and lob missiles at it till it goes bang, with no option for letting the player do the landing or taking off.
However, IL2 Sturmovik is definately at the top of its class. Realistic damage (i cannot stress the fun you feel the first time you shoot the wing or tail off an enemy...) Incredible scenery, it looks almost real at a few hundred/thousand feet, and still pretty good at ground level.
The game plays well too with pretty in depth tutorial section to let players get to grips with the abilities of an aircraft.
There are 3 difficulty settings, Arcade, Realistic, and Simulator. Arcade gives you easier handling, and makes it easier to see the enemy your locked on to. Realistic is a bit trickier, as if your too rough with the controls, you will stall, and go in to a spin, which is easy enough to correct after a little practice. Simulator is harder still, allowing you only cockpit viewpoint with no real HUD to speak of.
All in all, this game is a lot of fun, and made with incredible attention to detail. Each area you play, the scenery was generated from maps of that period. Simulator mode even has the Spitfire banking to the left constantly (as would happen from the engine torque)
If you like proper flight sims, you'll love this.
However, IL2 Sturmovik is definately at the top of its class. Realistic damage (i cannot stress the fun you feel the first time you shoot the wing or tail off an enemy...) Incredible scenery, it looks almost real at a few hundred/thousand feet, and still pretty good at ground level.
The game plays well too with pretty in depth tutorial section to let players get to grips with the abilities of an aircraft.
There are 3 difficulty settings, Arcade, Realistic, and Simulator. Arcade gives you easier handling, and makes it easier to see the enemy your locked on to. Realistic is a bit trickier, as if your too rough with the controls, you will stall, and go in to a spin, which is easy enough to correct after a little practice. Simulator is harder still, allowing you only cockpit viewpoint with no real HUD to speak of.
All in all, this game is a lot of fun, and made with incredible attention to detail. Each area you play, the scenery was generated from maps of that period. Simulator mode even has the Spitfire banking to the left constantly (as would happen from the engine torque)
If you like proper flight sims, you'll love this.
32 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
2 games in one really- Arcade is a forgiving dogfighting game with a vastly better feel than Blazing Angels and Heroes over whatever...the graphics are jaw dropping, both planes and scenery and the SCALE is huge! In the Demo Blast your spitfire through a flight of 100 or so heinkels with messerschmitt 109 escorts then really muller-up some Stukas...planes are damaged according to bullet/shell impact (engine, pilot, wings come off , tails fly etc)..the physics are fairly real yet forgiving.
Alternatively crank the difficulty up to Sim and you have the FIRST proper flight sim on a current gen console- spitfires even pull to the right with the torque of the props- you'll need to to take the stick/pad sensitivity down to avoid stalling etc. This ramps up the difficulty but also the reward. There is realistic in between which has the pilot aids from arcade but with more sim physics..
The first simish flight game on a console- the first decent ww2 aerial combat on a console...xbl is going to be incredible...
come on and down Fritz all over Dover
Download and play the demo before you moan at me...
(Will delete this before release)
Alternatively crank the difficulty up to Sim and you have the FIRST proper flight sim on a current gen console- spitfires even pull to the right with the torque of the props- you'll need to to take the stick/pad sensitivity down to avoid stalling etc. This ramps up the difficulty but also the reward. There is realistic in between which has the pilot aids from arcade but with more sim physics..
The first simish flight game on a console- the first decent ww2 aerial combat on a console...xbl is going to be incredible...
come on and down Fritz all over Dover
Download and play the demo before you moan at me...
(Will delete this before release)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
There aren't many flying games for the 360, and the ones that do exist are often a bit over-the-top or arcade-style (Ace Combat anyone?).
This one however is rather good. The different difficulty modes can be a god-send once you get frustrated with stalling your aircraft all the time and being unable to bring it out of a stall, resulting in your aircraft exploding a big ball of fire in the fields of Kent. However this can just result in you playing through the game in 'easy arcade mode', which to be honest, is just too easy. Enemy planes seem a bit 'passive' to be honest I only found myself being shot at a handful of times despite taking on dozens of enemy aircraft at a time.
I ended up putting this game down and playing something a bit more gripping, but I'm pretty confident I'll be going back to it.
This one however is rather good. The different difficulty modes can be a god-send once you get frustrated with stalling your aircraft all the time and being unable to bring it out of a stall, resulting in your aircraft exploding a big ball of fire in the fields of Kent. However this can just result in you playing through the game in 'easy arcade mode', which to be honest, is just too easy. Enemy planes seem a bit 'passive' to be honest I only found myself being shot at a handful of times despite taking on dozens of enemy aircraft at a time.
I ended up putting this game down and playing something a bit more gripping, but I'm pretty confident I'll be going back to it.
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Great game for my first X-box 360 flight sim. Easy to get started on a mission. Good grafix. Easy to progress. Read more
Published 2 months ago by drmalkolm
It's probably not IL2 Sturmovik's fault...
I bought this game on the strength of the terrain and flying graphics. Completely awesome. However, I'm a traditionalist and cannot fly simulators using Xbox controls; I need... Read more
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Silver surfer/gamer
This was mooted to be the best WW2 Combat Sim on Xbox360 so I was full of expectations. Still early days with the game but I have to say the graphics are a bit disappointing. Read more
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I don't write reviews but after playing this game I had to, What a great game, I love it.
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I have only just got the game so this is not final. It has three flight modes and you unlock and learn them in the Tutorial section of the game. Arcade, Realistic, Simulation. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Peter JONES
IL2 Sturmovik review
After reading some of the other reviews describing the difficulty of the game I had my doubts about buying it, as I have never owned a proper flight sim game before. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Tom
OK game
i think this game is good for like 10 minutes then it gets boring. i do also think it is the best flying game for xbox just lacks some vital things.
Published 15 months ago by Ben
IL-2 Sturmovik xbox 360
Yeah well this game is OK,just about, closest to a flight sim on xbox 360. Graphics and aircraft models look good. However, gameplay can become repetitive. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Daz
Tally Ho!
At least IL 2 is a bit different from the typical air sim where you get to fly jets. Here you get to fly the racing equivalent of a Ford Cortina. The oldies are fun. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Duncan McDonald
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This game is a strange one to rate, it's my first flight game and I found it quite fun at the start. After a couple of missions it was a bit samey. Read more
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