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| IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 | 
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| List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 39 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1290
Category: Video Games
Publisher: Ubisoft
Studio: Ubisoft
Brand: UBI Soft
Label: Ubisoft
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: 0
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 68361
Model: 68361
UPC: 008888683612
EAN: 0008888683612
ASIN: B000N4JENW
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Nearly 200 missions with unparalleled realism as you fly detailed fighter and bomber missions for the German, Soviet and Japanese air forces | | • | Fly 32 new fighters and bombers, including the Il-10 Sturmovik, the MiG-9 Jet fighter, the Arado Ar-234 Blitz jet bomber, or the N1K2 George fighter | | • | New Maps - Historical maps of the Kiev region, Manchuria and Japanese-occupied Korea, a large bonus Burma map and an online Khalkin Gol / Nomonhan map | | • | Explore an alternative history - Three of the 9 campaigns focus on hypothetical battles between the Soviet Union and Germany in 1946 | | • | Unparalleled historical accuracy - Even prototypes and what-if designs are recreated, as fully & realistically as possible |
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Product Description
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 collects all the previously released Sturmovik titles and add-ons, plus three additional expansion packs. This flight sim now boasts over 300 controllable aircraft as well as additional campaigns and online maps. Historical planes include the Heinkel He-L-IIIB-2 Lerche, a Luftwaffe creation that never actually made it off the ground. Gamers may also journey through an alternative timeline and assist in the assassination of Hitler. Exotic aircraft and locations -- fly Soviet mixed-power fighters against new ground targets like trenches and bunkers Comes with exclusive bonus content - Special making of video, screenshots and videos of the upcoming Storm of War - Battle of Britain Detailed plane guide -- over 450 pages covering each of the 229 flyable aircraft
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Best sim available.. but December 2, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
First of all I would like to say that this is the best sim available (probably ever). While many aspects are very realistic, there are some problems with the flight modelling. The game seems to be very biased. All of the American fighters are a nightmare to fly. For instance, the p-51 and p-47 should be able to fly circles around a 109 at 25k. Wrong. The only advantage are their superior speed at this altitude. In another scenario, while playing online, a fw-190A8 (2500 ft/min in real life) proceded to outclimb my f6f (3500 ft/min in reality) right after takeoff. At these low altitudes, my 2000hp f6f should have left it in the dust. The .50 caliber machine guns are also mysteriously weak. If you disagree with me, set up a single player mission with you in an f6f and a friendly in a fw-190A8. Get yourself within 100 yards of it (directly behind) and try to shoot it down. You will probably waste half of your ammo before you make a dent. The p-38s controls get shot out in 1 hit and if you breathe on the P-40 the wrong way, its engine will burst into flames and the elevators controls will fail. Honest to god, the only decent American planes are the P-39 and the P-63 (probably because they were favored by the game developers country during WWII). The axis teams dominate when playing online. Allies do not even have a chance unless spits are available. I am not saying that the US had the best aircraft during WWII, but there is no way that they were this terrible. Had they been, the allies would have lost the war.
Great flight Sim November 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Il-2 is the absolute best ww2 flight sim when it comes to realism. It not for people who just want to shoot 'em up. You will need to to master take offs, landings, flight instrumentation, navigation and engine control. After that, aerial combat maneuvers will be even more challenging. The air, sea and land scenery is stunning as well as the accuracy of all the aircraft. It is amazing to takeoff in a Grumman Wildcat in the Pacific and have to manually crank a handle to retract the landing gear. These guys did there homework on ALL of the aircraft. Cheers!
Historicaly accurate fun November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Holy Grail of combat flight sims. You can configure the game for anything from arcade shootem up to full on realism with complex engine management, blackouts, headshake, etc... Each plane modelled flies like the real thing with variants within a paticular model displaying different flight characteristics. Fanatical attention to historic detail, they release patches just to change the style of lettering on a guage or the color fo its needle if they didn't get it right the first time. BUY THIS SIM and check out mission4today.com for hundreds of free additional missions, campaigns, and skins. Perfect for gamers and historians alike.
Stellar study of WWII air warfare; & stunning flight simulation to boot! November 11, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If I may describe the virtues of IL2:1946 in point form!
- Any one of the IL2 series are among the best air combat simulation software you can currently get for the PC. With IL2:1946 you get the ENTIRE series on a single DVD.
- It is the BEST WWII simulation for air-combat there is.
- It sports a high fidelity physics engine as well as an inbuilt & powerful mission/campaign creation & management utility.
- This is definitely a product that broadens perspective! IL2 is extremely challenging, but the rewards are priceless with regard to an enhanced perspective of some of the challenges experienced by the aviators of that period and some insight into the machines they flew.
- It is buoyed by a legion of user support, with a very active online community.
- It generally runs very well on older PC's (mine is a Dell Dimension 5150 which is over 5 y.o. with high details and high frame-rates), occasional frame-rate hit around airfields and heavy traffic).
My advice is, if you're even slightly interested in FLIGHT or in the WWII period or both; then you should make sure you have your-self a copy of this sublimely marvelous piece of software tech-art. Without a doubt, Oleg Maddox is the modern day equivalent of Michelangelo or any of the Renaissance people.
I noticed there is one review that states you'll need previous copies to install IL2:1946; this is INCORRECT! You only need to purchase and install IL2:1946. It is a standalone product that includes ALL of the previous versions in the IL2 series.
IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 October 30, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great game....My husband had asked for MS Flight Simulator X for his birthday but I came across this instead. He really likes how it is still a flight simulator game but it has the added bonus of being able to dog fight, go on missions, and numerous other features. The graphics are alot better as well. Overall we are very pleased with it and would recommend it as a better alternative to FS X.
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