by Tom “WKLINK” Cofield Introduction and Background While BoB had the most potential, and was by far the most ambitious of the WW2 flight simulations released, it also had the most problems. Like any game that pushes the limit it sometimes tripped over itself. Graphic bugs, crash issues, stuttering, poor multiplayer and a quirky flight model […]
New Pre-Alpha Screenshots from Eagle Dynamics Upcoming Lock On: Black Shark (v1.2). Click the images below for a 1600 x 1200 enlargement. “Close-up” 294 kb – 1600 x 1200 “Pair” 456 kb “Night Pit” 221 kb “Over the Nose” 341 kb “Sensor Lock” 351 kb
Back To Page 3 Overall Opinions and Recommendations Given the increasing number of add-ons for IL-2 the question has to be asked; which add-on is the best one for me? This is a good question. I have looked at three add-ons; this one, Fall Blau and The Last Days. Each had its strong points and […]
Back To Page 2 Quality of the Missions Since you can download quality missions and even campaigns for free companies like Combat Planes need to make sure that what they sell is worth the cash you shell out. In general the missions are well made and show that someone had put some serious time in […]
Back To Page 1 The Campaigns in the Aces Expansion The game ships with five different campaigns that cover several theatres during the war; all of them replicating several real and fictitious battles that raged over the western theatre. Three of these are fought as allied powers and two are as the Luftwaffe forces. The […]
by Tom “WKLINK” Cofield Introduction You have to give some credit to the IL-2 game engine; it has continued to maintain a following years after the initial release. Oleg has released his own updates, first with Forgotten Battles, then his own Aces Expansion for IL-2:FB, then his final in the series; Pacific Fighters. These different versions […]
Back To Page 9 You must learn a good deal before you can use all the “mods” effectively. Most can be found in one place:Tally- Ho, the EAW library kept by Mike “Sandbagger” Norris and the EAW Community exchange informationhere at the SimHQ EAW Forum. The EAW community is friendly and quick to offer advice […]
Back To Page 8 A Great Year This 2005 year has been a great one for the community. Even at a time when other sims have put EAW into the shadows for popularity, new developments took place. Among the most useful besides “Gurney’s” new 3D studio has been “Mr. Jelly’s” Online Air Wars, (renamed […]
Back To Page 7 High Resolution Aircraft EAW fell behind other sims in popularity, largely because of its grainy and blocky graphics, and the community looked for a way out . “Moggy” (Peter FitzGerald-Morris) found ways to produce entirely new game “scenarios” like Dunkirk, the Battle of Midway in the Pacific (“Sighted Main Body”), […]
Back To Page 6 The EAW “Mod” Community’s Breakthrough The loyalty of EAW fans was and is phenomenal. It isn’t just the game. “I think what really makes us unique is the community that has grown around EAW,” one “Edwin Rommel”, fieldmarshall (retired) wrote. “Marriage counseling is available on the fly- problems with girlfriends, boyfriends, friends- no […]
Back To Page 5 One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure The verdict wasn’t unanimous that EAW was a great game, even at the height of its popularity. A look at old reviews shows an average of about 8 points out of 10, with gameplay running perhaps 9 out of 10. Those game […]
object. One that would jump immediately to wherever “cool” things were happening. Sometimes, the cool camera would focus on a plane executing an impressive evasive action to shake the enemy. Sometimes, the camera would follow a bomb from the bay of a B-17, down to the ground in a cool tracking shot where you watched […]
