If former endeavors are any indication of future performance, the fact that the company's previous IL-2 Sturmovik games rated well on Metacritic is a bit soothing. We'll be interested to see if 1C can translate its PC success onto the DS, although newbie DS developer DiP Interactive isn't the most confidence-inspiring of choices. As for the game's premise, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is a World War II flight simulator that lets the player engage in five airborne battles: The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun.
Since 1C is a European publisher, we're going to assume that this game is only for Europe until we hear differently.
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6-09-2008 @ 2:55PM
Thomas said...
ZOMG I can't believe this !!! I'm so excited about this ! I didn't play a good plane sim game since a looooonnng time, and I was very disapointed in Jet Impulse (weird controls and mission objectives in japanese). The IL-2 games on PC were very good (just check Metacritic), although I'm not a big fan of WW2 games. Can't wait to see more screenshots of this (and I hope the DS version will not get a bad treatment).
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6-09-2008 @ 3:19PM
Aparoid said...
The DS needs some good aviation games. So far I've only found Star Fox Command to cut it, and it's not really in that genre.
Spitfire Heroes wasn't disappointing, mainly because I wasn't expecting anything. And whatever happened to DS Air?
Anyway, I'll be keeping a close eye on this game.
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6-09-2008 @ 3:28PM
Jess said...
IL-2 is arguably the greatest WWII flight sim of all time. However, this version isn't done by Maddox and crew, just an attempt to run with the name, so who knows.
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6-09-2008 @ 3:36PM
pas said...
wifi and good mp and I'm in !
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