IL-2 STURMOVIK: Cliffs of Dover for PC Sim Fans

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Rickyk

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Looking good. Only question is, will it feature Ubis "always connected or you're screwed" DRM? Releasing in India sometime this month - price of Rs.650 (intencity).


Today Ubisoft announced that IL-2 STURMOVIK: Cliffs of Dover, will take off on March 25th 2011 for PCs in the UK. IL-2 STURMOVIK: Cliffs of Dover is the latest installment in the IL-2 Sturmovik series from developer 1C: Maddox Games.

According to the press release the key features are:

- Massive multiplayer – Customizable modes range from simple death-match-style free-for-alls to epic, ongoing 128 player battles that can last hours, days, weeks, or even longer.

- New aircraft: Incredibly detailed true-to-life modeling of aircraft systems based on thousands of hours of dedicated research. Every single aircraft component can be damaged for realistic and immensely satisfying results.

- Flyable aircraft – Over a dozen famous and highly detailed English, German and Italian aircraft available, with all crew positions open to players. All flyable aircraft have been painstakingly researched, resulting in incredibly accurate cockpit interiors.

- Non-flyable aircraft –13 additional AI-controlled aircraft are also available, created with the same attention to historical accuracy, for an even more varied and immersive combat environment.

- Exciting Single-Player Campaign – The campaign thrusts the player into the middle of the battle. The player will join the British Air Force to fight the German forces and renegade pilots on his own side.

- Interactive training – Comprehensive interactive training for new players – fly a real WWII trainer plane with a computer controlled instructor through a series of training missions.

- Brand new setting – The battle will take place on a large area spanning London and southern England in the north, to Northern France and Belgium in the south. The huge map will contain thousands of historical cities, towns, roads, airfields, radar stations, ports, and industrial areas – all located exactly where they were in 1940.

- New 3D engine – Latest-gen graphics engine with DX10 and DX11 API support. Huge variety of photo-realistic ground vehicles, buildings and other environmental elements recreate minute details of 1940s Europe.

- Customizable difficulty – Dozens of realism options allow newcomers to the franchise to reduce the difficulty and focus on the fun while learning the ropes of being a pilot.
 
Loved the original, but didn't have the patience to learn to fly the sim well enough to deal with the campaign. Ended up just flying around in the concept jet instead. ;-) Lets see if my age has changed anything about that with this one!
 
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