Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: UBI Soft EAN: 0008888680956 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD-ROM Label: Ubisoft Manufacturer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: March 04, 2003 Sales Rank: 10004 Studio: Ubisoft
Features:
Dynamic campaign system: In addition to the already existing IL-2 campaign system Forgotten Battles will include a new dynamic campaign system. It will work with all existing IL-2 and Forgotten Battles maps for single play The new map areas:
Finnish gulf map area representing the large territory from Helsinki to Leningrad: Tallin, Kronshtadt, the lake Ladoga, etc.
Hungarian map area representing the Balaton Lake area in Hungary.
L'vov map area (Ukraine and Poland)
20 new single player missions using the Finnish and Hungarian map areas and Order of Battle
20 Single & 10 Multiplayer Missions, 5 New Maps, and 129 Aircrafts!
Product Information
IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles introducesa dynamic campaign. The dynamic campaigns are automatically generated, and the player can select his or her nation, squadron, and aircraft to fly. Players can also decide when they want to join the war. After the completion of each mission, the resultswill be processed and another mission will automatically be generated - and so on, until the end of war. Results of one mission will carry on to the next and no two missions will be the same.
During the campaigns, forces will advance orretreat, based on the history of the battles. However, frontline movements can speed up or slow down in limited degree. Additionally, resource tracking is present and objects destroyed in one mission will stay destroyed in the next. Every destroyedplane, friendly or hostile, reduces the number of planes of this type in the theatre, making their appearance less likely. Destroyed trains and transport columns will affect supply rate. If an ace is killed or captured, he will not appear in futurebattles.
Squadron management will also play a key-role in the dynamic campaign system. Every pilot has a name, photo (it is possible to replace the default photos) a rank, medals, sorties and kills. Each pilot's skill level is defined by combatexperience. Pilots can be killed, captured, promoted, awarded or transferred. Losses are replaced, but new pilots will likely have minimal combat experience. Each squadron has a limited amount of combat ready planes, and if this number drops below somepoint, the squadron will be short-handed.
Players may choose to play from any time of 1941 to 1945 and fly for either Germany, Russia, Finland or Hungary.
Includes
The Forgotten Battles consists of:
20 single-player mi
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Best WW2 Flight Simulator ever made!
My review of this product may be slightly skewed by the fact that I remember Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, and played WW2 Fighters for a long time. Except for some counter-intuitive options, The Sturmovik series of games are exceptional and offer hours of enjoyment.
Rating: - Good flight sim
This flight sim is fun to play.
I have had mine for a couple years and find it relaxing,until the Me-109's or Fw-190's show up to party,then it can get squirrelly up there.
It takes some practice,I just wish the game had the stage the demo has in it.
I also recomend Sturmovik Forgotten Battles,there are some interesting aircraft in it.
Rating: - Ubi soft not user friendly
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.
Rating: - Difficult but enjoyable
I bought this sim. I find it to be the best one yet! Yes it is difficult, but I play it often. You might want to adjust it to suit you. I added external views and automatic engine controls. I'm running a campaign now and its really addicting. My system is a ecs L7s7a2 mainboard, 2 different sticks of 256meg DDR ram a amd xp2100 processor and a chaintech nvidia fx5200 128 meg agp video card. The controler is a logitech usb wingman flight stick. It stutters once in a while, but I have several background apps running. I only get about 5 victories in 20 missions. I love the challenge. I have ms combat flight sims, but haven't bothered to put them on this system.
Rating: - worth it for the updates
Now that the IL-2: FB Ace Expansion Pack is out -- an expansion, not a stand-alone -- the original IL-2 FB continues to be worth getting. I've been able to get FB to work well on a late-model Pentium, with an ordinary Logitech Wingman joystick, combined with CH Pedals. The pedals simulate real-life rudder pedals and make the controls more responsive -- and as a trained pilot I can appreciate the sim better. This sim is very realistic, and more flyable than, say, MiG Alley.
The FB scenery is gorgeous, with very great detail around Stalingrad and Leningrad. Indeed, a low flight over Leningrad will be a virtual tour of what is now the St. Petersburg skyline. Only the German lines are almost in sight of the city.
As for the complaints about difficulty, it helps if you toggle off the complicated engine management when you create a pilot in a campaign, and your gunnery will be helped if you slow the time-speed to the minimum (1/4) and tighten the view. If this sim seems difficult, remember that many Soviet pilots went into combat with all of 10 hours' flight training, total. You have the Quick Missions to train on your favorite aircraft and even those of the enemy, which is more than the original pilots did.
I strongly recommend FB for sim aficionados. The Ace Expansion Pack will complement your FB copy nicely, and even the AEP exotica aircraft (Spitfire V, YP-80, Me163, etc.) will possibly save you the cost of the recent Normandy flight sims. However, I keep returning to the Soviet and Finnish sectors, in a time when the flying was desperate and the enemy was at the door.
- Best WW2 Flight Simulator ever made!
- Ubi soft not user friendly
