I am a Warthog addict. Who isn’t, right? I do my best to immerse myself in the Warthog world: books, all the YouTube videos I can watch, and, of course, I spend as much time as I can afford in Eagle Dynamics’ DCS A-10C Warthog with my Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS. To us fanbois (and fangurls), […]
In this final article for our IL-2 retrospective, we look at the last chapter in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and what came afterwards – the unique collaboration with a group of modders, Team Daidalos. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (2006) Tom Cofield once again leapt bravely into dark waters predicting in 2006 that IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 […]
So far we have looked at the first chapters of the IL-2 legend, IL-2 Sturmovik and Forgotten Battles. Now we move from Europe to the Pacific. Fighting the Publisher: IL-2 Pacific Fighters (2004) “…in what has to be the final utilization for the IL-2 engine, Oleg Maddox, Ilya Shevchenko and company have released Pacific Fighters, […]
In our first retrospective article on IL-2 we covered the release of the original IL-2 Sturmovik and took a walk down Oleg Maddox’s memory lane. Gone, But Not Forgotten Following hot on the heels of the successful IL-2 Sturmovik, came the Forgotten Battles release in 2003. This stand-alone title in the series came slightly more […]
SimHQ’s Jens “McGonigle” Lindblad talks with Matt Milne in anticipation of the planned December release of Wings Over Flanders Fields for which Matt has scored and produced the original soundtrack. UK composer Matt Milne has been writing music for 16 years, producing music for over 100 short, feature films, games, tv and trailers. Matt has also […]
Could there be a more daunting challenge in sim literature than writing a retrospective on the IL-2 Sturmovik series of combat flight sim titles? None that I can think of! So to help put more than a decade of work into context we have turned to the man behind the series, Oleg Maddox, to give […]
