IL2 Stirmovik demo on Live.

Captain Chaos · 29-07-2009 4:32pm #1

Anyone try the demo yet. Really liked it, it is actually a sim like the PC games were and can be as a sim or arcade as you want it to be. Got through the training missions fine with perfect scores but when I tried the first mission on realistic... wow, stalled straight away coming off the first bomber and went into a spin. I recovered before I hit the ground and kept going for more kills untill the bomber's gunners slowly took my Spitfire apart.

Can't wait for this to come out in September and have some WW2 style dogfighting on Live.

Vic Vinegar · 29-07-2009 4:50pm

So it's not really "pick up & play" then? i like flying games but not if they are bitch hard...

Captain Chaos · 29-07-2009 4:53pm

Select the arcade settings and it more or less is pick up and play. But as its a WW2 game its not as easy as say Ace Combat, which anyone can play and its an arcady game.

In arcade mode, you can't stall or spin. Ammo in unlimited and it tells you where to aim so you pull enough lead on the target to hit it.

mailrewop · 29-07-2009 5:18pm

I kept stalling in realistic but i put down the sensitivity and I'm not stalling as much. I'm still finding it hard to aim but damage to your plane is really good, there was a hole in my left wing after been shot at.

Vic Vinegar · 29-07-2009 6:00pm

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Select the arcade settings and it more or less is pick up and play. But as its a WW2 game its not as easy as say Ace Combat, which anyone can play and its an arcady game.

In arcade mode, you can't stall or spin. Ammo in unlimited and it tells you where to aim so you pull enough lead on the target to hit it.

Cheers.

I wasn't a fan of Ace Combat 6 at all, dull as dishwater! the last flight game i really liked was Crimson Skies on the xbox, that was a class act!

Captain Chaos · 29-07-2009 6:06pm

Bombleswizzum wrote: »

Cheers.

I wasn't a fan of Ace Combat 6 at all, dull as dishwater! the last flight game i really liked was Crimson Skies on the xbox, that was a class act!

Well, this is nothing like CS. If you thought Ace Combat was boring I think this will drive you to tears.

And what ever you do don't touch Over G fighters. Ace Combat on sim, with about 6 targets per mission but I really like that aswell.

muppetkiller · 30-07-2009 11:08am

Whohooo I'm a huge iL2 fan from the PC and have been dying for this for ages..
I'll check it out when I get home and see how it compares to the original.

This is going to be an amazing game online if it remains faithful to the PC version!!

Captain Chaos · 30-07-2009 11:53am

muppetkiller wrote: »

Whohooo I'm a huge iL2 fan from the PC and have been dying for this for ages..
I'll check it out when I get home and see how it compares to the original.

This is going to be an amazing game online if it remains faithful to the PC version!!

Its close enough, the main difference for me is that you can't choose when to fire the guns or cannons, they all fire together. So you can't save the cannons to use on the bombers, its not much of a biggy.

I read somewhere that if you have any joystick that works with the 360, just plug it in and IL2 will detect it. This game needs one I think, as you can even trim when set to simulation which is a first for a console flight game I think.

Blazer · 30-07-2009 3:57pm

Remember suggesting playing IL2 at the last lan I was at.
About 20 of us.
Everything of course picked jets and I think about 18 ppl who'd never played it before just ramped up the afterburner and died on the runway after the engines went on fire

Needless to say it wasn't played again.

0ubliette · 31-07-2009 9:58am

The demo is fantastic. For someone like me who loves plane games but doesnt want to have to spend hours reading an instruction manual its perfect. And the sim option os there for people who do. Graphics are amazing, and its alot of fun, definitely picking this up

muppetkiller · 31-07-2009 11:19am

As an il2 diehard I think it sucks but i'll probably pick it up for the online side of things.

It actually reminds me more of hybrid of Janes WW2 fighters and Blazing Angels than IL2. Still it's a decent sized demo and worth the download.

Vic Vinegar · 31-07-2009 11:45am

LIGHTNING wrote: »

flight "games" should never be easy to play.

They should if they want people with only a casual interest to play them.

dMaN24 · 11-08-2009 10:47pm

Kerr-Bump!

Sorry for the rude bump, but i just played the demo today. I thought it was fairly easy to play, until i switched to realistic-mode. Got a wee bit tricker then.

First of the Sturmovik-games for me, so i have nothing to compare to. But i really liked it, and consider buying the full version.

IL2 Stirmovik demo on Live.

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