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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.

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.

Zzzzzzzzz

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: March 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you like staring at splash screens and listening to your
hard drive spin, you'll love this game. Once you actually
break through to the flying part, it's reasonably well
constructed, although nothing like as revolutionary as the
reviews would lead you to believe. But the mechanical parts,
the set up, the campaign selection, the options -- are
pure rubbish. And the amount of time it takes to load is
just flat amateurish. It's earned a proud place on my
"little used" file, and it's likely to stay there.
Save your money.

Ubi soft not user friendly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Bought it installed it ,no worky ,error msg ,replaced rts dll. as told still no worky. Tech support is just automated email response.I have heard this is common problem with a lot of there products ,I know the Pacifc Fighter starts out with a error msg. And no I never had both products installed at same time.Cheap stuff stay away.

NOT for the casual flight sim folk

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are a hardcore flight sim fan, this is for you. If, on the other hand, you have a more balanced interest in gaming, or are a flight sim novice, stay far away from this title. I originally bought it because of good buzz about the game. However, since playing it and doing some additional research, I have found the comments on pluses and minuses made by gamers and magazines to be right on target.
PLUS:
-Great graphics
-Tremendous variety of aircraft to fly
-Good mission editor

Minuses:
-Godlike AI gunnery. Seemingly limitless enemy ammo fired like a laser. Even through clouds/fog/etc. (seems like a simple patch)
-Even at 8x game speed, some missions make you feel like you need a crew rest period
-Single-player missions seem to have no soul to them. A very cold game.
-While there are a variety of ways to change the difficulty level and plane management system, it seems to work out to be either expert mode or shallow arcade style. Hard to find a middle ground

-Quick reference card isn't. Way too much info squeezed on it at about a 6 font.

In all fairness, I have not tried the multi-player mode, which I understand is quite good. Bottom line, if you like hard-core flight sims, get this in a heartbeat. If you are a casual flight simmer, fly somewhere else.

Overrated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: March 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is 90% hype and 10% graphics. Highly overrated and very demanding of system resources. Be prepared to tweak your system to suit this game, and if it adversely affects other games - too bad. The sound is the worst I've ever heard even at that. CFS3 is FAR superior in that area. And, you will need to turn your sound hardware acceleration down just to avoid bugs. There is no "runway" selection for free flights. You can only start in the air. So you can't test various planes. Graphics are unmatched, though. Lots of eye candy if you have the hardware for it and you tweak your system properly.
Rich

FB: Understand what you're buying...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I made a serious effort with the original (i.e., IL-2) when it was released; since my system is kept current in terms of memory and video there were no problems running the sim and the interface and graphic's were the best ever produced at the time.
I gave up due to the overly complicated joystick tuning routine (I use a Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3-D) and the constant patches released by the manufacturer.

I purchased FB realizing it was a standalone sim - not an expansion of IL-2. FB has the same interface and the default joystick routines are the same but now I have no problems with flight and obviously UBI have responded to feedback from consumers on this issue.

The AI has been critically reviewed by many; I agree that it is extremely tough but the designers goal is to create a simulation - not a game.

This is not a product for the casual gamer. If you are looking for a serious, detailed simulation of air combat on the Eastern Front than FB is the ideal platform. To be blunt, if you're not willing to invest the time required to overcome the learning curve then you will be extremely frustrated. The rewards for your investment will be rich as the sim provides the most detailed atmosphere for air combat ever produced.

You will need a 'current' system to run the sim at full detail levels. FB gets 4 stars instead of 5 because I agree with other reviewer's that the dynamic campaign interface is 'cold'; there hasn't been a good atmospheric campaign interface since Micropose's EAW.

System: OS: XP Home. Intel Pent. 4 2.80 GHz. 15" XGA TFT with Radeon IGP 345M Video Card. 40 GB 2 Hard Drive. 512 MB DDR SDRAM.

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.

Fantastic sim, attention to detail...some flaws persistant

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: September 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for a realistic WW2 flight simulator - look no further, this is it. Every other sim is inferior (except niche products like dedicated online simulators - and this only because this sim is not a dedicated online one).

Many planes flyable, even more flown by AI. Fantastic attention to detail, flight models getting refined in subsequent patches. More planes are expected as add-ons, while user made skins (vast resurce of both historical and fictional are available) make the sim even better.

there are few negatives though. Somehow certain planes seem to be favored and given a somewhat unrealistic advantages. Others suffer from non-realistic disadvantages. This in no way spoils the big picture, but sometimes makes a hard core sim fanatic angry.

Special mention should go to the Fw 190 forward view. It is rather limiting, to say the least. A thorough study about this has been brought up with real Fw 190 from museum, but developers simply don't care. With Fw 190 being one of the two mainstay German fighters throughout the war, this flaw gets even more pronounced.

Still, the best WW2 flight sim out there. 4 stars only because of Fw 190 forward view.

The Best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game (or simulation or whatever) is the very best of the genre. The graphics are not only amazing, they are carefully researched to be completely accurate in their representation of WWII planes.

Although it takes a fairly muscular system to run this game with all the graphics turned up, it is so good that it alone is a reason to dump your old system and buy a new one.

My rating would have been five stars but for one minor irritant. The latest upgrade patch is gigantic (over 80 MB), and yet I can find no evidence that UBI Soft will provide a CD ROM disk for this patch. This is a real problem for those of us who live where a high-speed internet connection is unavailable or unaffordable. I would gladly pay a nominal fee for a CD ROM patch if they would just offer one.

But make no mistake. My game ran flawlessly out of the box and was worth twice what I paid for it at full retail, which is more than I can say for many other high-end simulations I have purchased.

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