IL2 - Birds of Prey (360/ps3)

[Thisdale]

Update:August 20th


Second Official mind blowing trailer released:

http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/35460/Xbox-360/IL-2-Sturmovik-Birds-of-Prey


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Official Trailers are out... seeing this game in movement is stunning!

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37362.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37364.html


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http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/39163/IL-2-Sturmovik-Birds-of-Prey-Trailer-Announcement

New IL2 game for console.

Discuss.

[Maniac]

Very nice movie!:thumb:

[Funky]

Gotta love the GFX! But why not on the PC? Too arcadish?

Funky

[f-18hornet]

Playing this IL-2 or any other "sim" without joystick is like playing an arcade and not a sim.

[greenlee]

I'll just leave them alone...

[Bogusheadbox]

I think you guys are missing something big here.

A) first and most lowly, this may be the thing to bring peripherals into the cosole market and hopefully branch away from arcade games. (but i still won't buy a console)

B) second and most highly....

Anyone notice the terrain, improved smoke effects and the aircraft (especially the year models)?

Look again.

And look once more.

Looks a lot like BOB to me.

I was in discussian with a friend of mine yesterday about it (we are both big IL2 vets from original).

The terrain is almost identical to what has been viewed for Bob. the smoke, lighting effects are drastically improved and the models look very detailed indeed.

What is Oleg up to ? Is he releasing to the console market a version of bob for cash injection while finishing of the PC version ? Very strange indeed and is raising a lot of eyebrows in the community. What is going on?


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But dishearten not fearless wingmen. On the 1c forums, has recently been posted an update to the porgress of BOB (PC version) and in addition (IMHO) one of the biggest held secrets and most eagerly awaited sim was an anouncement and pictures that RRG are still working on the Korean sim based on the BOB engine. Get in there !!! ohhh yeah !!

Now that IS something to rejoice about !!

[CaptHawkeye]

Playing this IL-2 or any other "sim" without joystick is like playing an arcade and not a sim.

That's a bit of a sweeping generalization, don't you think?

[Thisdale]

New screenshots released.

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/40269/IL-2-Sturmovik-Birds-of-Prey-Screenshots

I'm hopeful about the gameplay...

[T_Flight]

Gotta love the GFX! But why not on the PC? Too arcadish?

Funky

Funky, it's "instant gratification". It's too hard to load the game on to the PC, and set it up and learn to fly, then have to read all those manuals and actually learn how to fight in a jet.

I see it first hand with my 12 YO Nephew. I've actually volunteeered to help him learn to fly Falcon, but he just won't stick with it. If it takes more than 10 minutyes to blow up stuff it's "boring". The years it takes to *really* learn how to fly is "too hard" and "too much work".

Now I'm not knocking an Xbox. I own one. I like to just go into stuff and bklow stuff up too and be wowed by the fancy graphics and see all that neat stuff too.

I wish more people that really like combat simulations would get into them and stick with them. It really is worth it. It's rewarding and good things come to those who wait and take the time to really learn something.

Controllers? I've raced in Forza on my Xbox and it's really strange racing a car with a Xbox controller. It makes it feel more like an RC Car with the old style Radios they used to use before the fancy dedicated Car radios came out for them with the steering whell and trigger throttle and all of that. You can get a steering when, but then that makes it mopre like a sim then. Oh, the horror. We wouldn't want to do that would we? hehe

I like realism and the controls are included in that, but that's me, and I'm a purists. I like my virtual world to be as close to reality as I can make it. My games are slightly different though. I like to just go in there and let the bodies fly! CoD is cool on Xbox BTW.

I am getting Far Cry 2 also. I want...therefore I will own! :smile:

[Caddie87th]

Well look at those tree's in this picture, would love to see something like that in FO :hug:

http://ve3d.ign.com/images/33460/Xbox-360/IL-2-Sturmovik-Birds-of-Prey

GRtz

[Thisdale]

Official Trailers are out... seeing this game in movement is stunning!

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37362.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37364.html

[Thisdale]

New trailer out. Header updated.

http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/35460/Xbox-360/IL-2-Sturmovik-Birds-of-Prey

[Redstormer]

Nice trailer. I like it!!!!! :smile:

Look at the landscape!!!:thumb:

[Kocrachon]

Playing this IL-2 or any other "sim" without joystick is like playing an arcade and not a sim.

Actually the X360 has a flight stick very similar to the Saitek X52

http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ace-edge-flightstick.jpg


On a side note. I wish an IL-2 with graphics like that would come out for the PC real soon. IL-2 1946 is starting to get slightly old... finally after years and years of play with the entire franchise. Still good, but I can only play the same game for so long.

[Thisdale]

Actually, apparently Birds of Prey is coming to PC as well... according to Gametrailers.com anyways. That would be awesome.

[LeL]

I know this thread is almost dead, Birds of Prey did make it to PC under the title Wings of Prey. and looking at IL2 Storm of War, I'd say that Wings of Prey is what I'm aiming for.