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The best thing since the release of Il-2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 27
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What are you waiting for? Preorder it right now.

Best WW2 flight simulator!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

IL2:FB will include all original IL2Sturmovik aircraft and it will add following flyable aircraft.

Ju-87D-3 Two seat dive bomber / ground attack aircraft
Ju-87G-1 Two seat tank buster / ground attack aircraft
Bf-109G-14 Fighter
Bf-109G-10 Fighter
Bf-109K-4 Fighter
FW-190D-9 Fighter. 1944 model
FW-190D-9 Fighter. 1945 model with MW50
FW-190F-8 Fighter-bomber
FW-190A-9 Fighter
He-111H-2 Multi-crewed bomber
He-111H-6 Multi-crewed bomber / torpedo bomber
Me-262A-1a Jet fighter
Me-262A-2a Jet fighter-bomber
B-239 (Brewster Buffalo F2A) Fighter.
Hurricane Mk I Fighter
TB-3 Multi-crewed bomber
La-5 Fighter
La-5F Fighter
La-7 2x20mm ShVAK cannons Fighter
La-7 3x20mm B-20 cannons Fighter
I-153 M-62 Fighter
I-153P Fighter
Hurricane Mk IIB Fighter
Hurricane Mk IIC Fighter
Hurricane Mk II with Russian cannons and MGs Fighter
P-47D-10 Fighter / fighter-bomber
P-47D-27 Fighter / fighter-bomber
P-40E Fighter
P-40M Fighter P-40 field mode with Soviet M-105P engine Fighter
In total with IL-2:FB and IL-2 installation you'll get 129 aircraft, at least 80 of which are flyable!
This is a must get flight simulator to any aviation enthusiast.

Unlike others, I have flown a preview copy.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 21
Date: January 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Highly recommended, the preview copy I have ... is solid, stable and looks good. It takes the strong points of IL2 and improves on them. The game looks better, flies better and the campaign is much improved.

A definate must if you want to play the most realistic WW2 Combat flight simulation in existance. Heck, I consider it the best flight simulation ever made.

Puts CombatFlightSimulator to shame

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

quite simply, a must have for anyone with a hi-end machine that wants the finest in flight sims. online combat and coop scene is OFF THE HOOK and usually really active and friendly. I bought the original IL2 and didnt expect to really play it too much, it ended up being the single most played game of 2002 for me. play it in OpenGL and crank up the details and drink it in. the level of detail is unreal. the netcode is perfect and stable and mature. i cant say it enough.

This game makes Microsoft and microprose sims look like highschool science projects.

The best kept secret in the flight sim community

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best combat flight simulator ever made!

I agree it does make the Microsoft Flight simulators and any other flight sim look like high school science projects!!

This game builds upon the previous champ of the combat flight sim market the IL2-Sturmovik..

The programmers of this game and a gentleman by the name of Oleg Maddox (u will become quite familiar with this name soon!) have put their life and soul into this product.. This is not just a vehicle to make money like Combat Flight Simulator 3 this is a work of art to put it simply..

These gentlemen have enriched my life with their product. I am now part of a Canadian squadron the RCAF 401 ([url]) and fly online with my squadron mates on Hyperlobby.. To say we have fun is an understatement.. The competition online is fantastic as is the gameplay of this product.. I've been playing the predecessor to this game (IL2 Sturmovik) online for almost 2 years now almost every chance I get.. My wife is ready to throw me out of the house!

It's difficult to express how well the game looks and feels when you are playing it. The only way to compare it would be to go back to 1944 and jump into an ME262 Schwalbe and take a spin.. Then you could compare!

If you don't believe me hop over to the development site and take a look at the screenshots from the game.. U can visit the site at [url]

Even novices can learn this game when the difficulty level is taken down. U can even go invincible! You can also slow down the time down too! When you get good enough to compete with live opponents jump online and gove me a try.. My callsign is:

#401Cdn.GATOR

The best joystick to play this game (IMHO) is Microsoft Force Feedback 2.. (see? I am not biased when Microsoft does something good I'll tout it..).. I also have purchased USB rudder pedals from ChPro to add to the realism and enhance my online competitiveness..

With 3rd party voice communications software you and your squadron mates can fly together as a team and cover each other's sixes..

There doesn't pass a day that I learn something new about this game and how to fly my fav plane (Me109) better.. That's what's amazing is the depth of this game.. You can play it for a year and still find new things to explore and better ways to improve ur flying..

This is a game for teenagers and adults. In fact most of the people you'll find online are in their thirties and forties..

This is not a game.... This is a way of life...

Best Regards,

#401Cdn.GATOR

P.S. Buy this game and check your six!!

Why people why?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 23
Date: March 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am sure this game will be great (I am currently waiting for it to arrive) but why do these dumb... write reviews before a game is even out? I suggest that more people write 1 star reviews to get this evened out.

Greate game! Great service! Thanks Amazon.com

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: March 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best flight simulation.
It is real and good way to learn history and planes info.
Thanks Amazon.com for good service.

Gennady

New York

Great Flight Sim with a Dizzying Amount of New Features

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Three versions of the Ju-87 Stuka. Three versions of the P-47 Thunderbolt. P-51 Mustang. Two versions of the He-111 bomber with pilot, bombardier and five gunner positions. Soviet TB-3 four-engine bomber with pilot, bombardier and three gunners. Two versions of the Me-262 jet. Whole new airforce - Finnish - with virtually all its planes modeled. Many more new planes.

Dynamic campaign for Russian, German, Hungarian and Finnish pilots in fighter, ground attack and bomber roles. Squadron rosters, with faces from pilot photos also appearing inside their cockpits in the game engine. Famous aces flying with and against you in the campaign, with historical unique camo schemes.

Complex engine management with prop pitch, mixture, superchargers and more.

Incredible new maps, larger and more complex than anything you've ever seen before. Whole cities of Leningrad and Helsinki modeled on the same map with many landmarks in the way MS Flight Simulator series never approached even remotely. More realistic navigation - you can actually fly from Leningrad to Helsinki in a single flight using a real world map. And all this smoothly playable on a mid-range machine in the way MS never thought possible.

1C:Maddox Games flight sims actually ARE as real - and as good - as it gets.

P.S. Rob Orwin: maybe the people reviewing the game before it was out have still somehow played it. Ever heard of a beta test?

Crash & Burn

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: March 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been flying the original IL-2 since it came out, and it's a great game, so I was looking forward to getting Forgotten Battles. I wish I'd forgotten the whole idea. This game is a real clunker unless you have a cutting edge system to run it on. Just loading a single mission takes five minutes, and even with the graphics turned down to the bare bones it runs like a slide show. My system is a AMD 1gb with Nvidia GeForce 2MX/MX 400 so while its no longer top flight it's not exactly bottom rung either. I'll keep the game to use when I can afford a better system, but be aware that you may be in for problems if you don't have a serious new system to run it on.

Sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Just got this game yesterday. In my opinion this is the best flight sim out there. Lock on due out in June 2003 may top IL2 forgotten battles, but since it deals with a different time period, I know I will be flying both of them for quite sometime.

Finally get to fly my favorite plane with a cockpt the Me-262. The Me-262 does not like big throttle response in this game or the engines will catch on fire lol. I'll bet this plane is pretty realistic regarding WW2 technology. Got to be really careful flying it, but the full cockpit version was worth the wait. It kills anything in the air with a good pilot behind the controls.

Love the new maps also and online play.

No flight sim tops this game right now.

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