![]() It's set in World War II's European theatre, and therefore you won't be dealing with something like missile locks, evasions and futuristic fantasy. This isn't like HAWX - it's more in line with Blazing Angels to a degree. Does it have what it takes? Coming 2009.If you've been away from flight games for quite a while, here's how Birds of Prey fits in. In a world of arcade style, console flight games, one game challenges them all by being a super accurate sim. Sturmovik has been tested to death by thousands of PC gamers over hundreds of thousands of games and it’s not until now the series really nailed the balance between accessibility and the handling which initially made Sturmovik so acclaimed. In the transition it’s lost a number of planes and dropped the brilliant mission editor, but the in-air action has never been better. ![]() It’s a bare-boned game though beautiful in action but bland in menus and short on additional options – no co-op, no replays, and stark presentation throughout – but it’s a game made by the smallest of teams more accustomed to working on PC than console. ![]() When you get a kill in IL-2 Sturmovik, you earn it. Winston Churchill pats you on the back saying “well done, son” while a British bulldog barks the national anthem and you sip a nice cup of tea. The plane spirals Earthwards as the pilot tries to wrestle it under control it even looks as if he might pull out, the moment before his right wing is torn free by G-force and the plane nosedives into His Majesty’s Great British countryside. Glancing back, the bounder banks to begin the chase, unaffected by the pounding then suddenly, a wobble then a shake his wings cut to Swiss cheese and his aerodynamics shot to hell, the German pilot begins to spin. ![]() When you’re on top of him you strike, dropping through the clouds and banking so hard your plane threatens to stall you wrestle it back on course and dive in at his seven o’clock, all guns blazing, your last hundred rounds rake across his wings as you tear past his rear. You’ve stayed above the clouds, gradually closing the gap after sighting him a while back, staying in his blind spots and inching ever closer. ![]()
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