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Check out http://www.il2sturmovik.com for the updates on the original game and more currently the updates for the sequel Forgotten Battles. I suggest you go out and buy the latter, it is something else! I picked it up from GAME for £20 – you cannot argue for that, seeing as Dixons were selling it for £39.99 only a couple of months ago!
Once you have IL2-FB go to the official site (above) and downlload the latest patch which will give you more aircraft (B-17, A6M Zero) and most importantly make the Mustang flyable! It also gives you a normandy map to build missions with further expanding the game to handle western front battles rather than solely the Eastern front. A wise move by the creators i think, even though i love the other perspective of flying for the Reds.
The next thing you need to do once you have the new game is go to http://www.il2skins.com and download all the texture skins you will ever need for any aeroplane in the game! There are thousands of colour schemes available and many more are being made as we speak. It is of course all free ‘for the love of it’.
There is no more incompatibility problems that plagued the 3rd party developers of MS Combat flight sim series, the aircraft in IL-2 FB are all made using original blueprints and christ knows what else to get the perfect visual and technical model available. And the aspect of 3rd party addons are overseen by the game’s creator Oleg Maddox. If it does not match his criteria it will not be includedin the official patch – simple as that. This means he can release only the best for the game, none of this below par lookalike modelling seen in the Microsoft equivalent!
Well,.. i hope this in someway helps. I really should be the UK representative for Maddox games!!!
Well it kicks ass, thats the truth!:D
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