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IL-2 Sturmonvik 1946

Picture Source: www.amazon.co.uk

This game is set in World War II and is about shooting planes and nothing else.The name of the game is IL-2 Sturmonvik, which comes from a plane called the Ilyushin IL-2.

Ilyushin IL-2 (photo source: wikimedia common)

The title ''sturmonvik'' comes from the Russian word ''shturmovik'' which means ground-attack aircraft which the Il-2 was. The plane on the cover of the game (Top photo) is an Mig-9. The Il-2 series game is developed by the 1C company which is one of the largest interdependent Russian software developers. The 1C company also made Il-2 Sturmonvik: Birds of Prey. I played the demo of Birds of Prey on my Xbox 360 and it was great! The graphics are not that good but who cares when you get to blow up Me-323s (German transport plane) with my personal favourite plane the P-80 Shooting Star (American jet fighter) over Russia in heavy rain. 

P-80 Shooting Star in a Russian Air Force livery shooting an Me-323

 The plane which has the best weapons in the game is the Ta-183 (experimental German jet fighter) which has 4 auto-cannons!

Ta-183 shooting it's MK-108 auto-cannon

This game is surprisingly cheap at just £4.67 on Amazon. Once I tried to take on 16 ace Japanese Zero fighter planes with a Supermarine Seafire. Well, what do you think happened? A Japanese plane fired at me and one of the bullets seemed to hit my engine. I wasn't able to restart my engine and I didn't have enough time to eject and parachute down so my plane crashed into the water and I died. However, I did manage to shoot one of the Zero fighter planes down and I had a lot of fun playing the game!

Summary: The up-side is that it is cheap, fun and brilliant. The down-side of this game is that you have to wait quite some time to get to the actual dog fighting and the graphics aren't that good. I give this game an 8/10.