IL★2 Sturmovik demo
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Saturday 22 August 2009 05:41

I think the most time I spend flying around in a
game was in Elite. The difference with earthly
second world war flying is that there is gravity
and it's nearby big planet to fly into. Like Elite
it probably takes a while to get the hang of it,
but even in the beginning it wasn't as frustrating
as Blazing Angels. My issue with in-game flying is
that I easily loose track of what's up or down and
orientationally I don't know what I'm doing. The
whole 3D stuff is then mapped to using the controls
to move your crosshairs over your screen onto a
target and the connection with flying a plane is
lost. And that's sad because Sturmovik is really
about flying planes, using gravity and other
details of combat in the sky. And it looks great.
So that's a good combination to fit any learning on
a nice curve.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/play/2009/08/22/il-2-sturmovik-demo/