About il2



Il2 sturmovik (stormer) is one of the most important airplanes in ww2 on the eastern front (36,000 were produced),the german army called him "Schwarzer Tod" (Black Death) and the russians nicknamed him "flying tank". he was very hard to bring down and had very good fire power.

Few game features:
17 flyable planes(russian and german),fly pilot or rear gunner,air battles,ground atack and naval targets atack missions,mission builder.
You can play six campaigns : 1941 - Smolensk , 1941 - Moscow , 1942 - Stalingrad , 1943 - Kursk , 1944 - Crimea , 1945 - Berlin.

Minimum system requirements:
PII 300, 64 MB RAM, 3D Accelerator.
Recommended system:
PIII 600 or better, 128 MB RAM, 32 bit 3D accelerator with 32 MB RAM or better

Oleg Maddox(the founder of Maddox Games) did some great work indeed. The graphics,the period,the planes-all of it is almost perfect in the game. If you ask me ,this will be not the sim of the year but the sim of the century :)

The game is developed by Maddox Games and published by Blue Byte game channel.

Release date: Q1 2001