Storm of War, when released, won't face any competition, probably. Why? Because the only World-War 2 simulator that was dominating so far is from the same developers. The rest doesn't stand a chance.
Jet Thunder and Fighter Ops, although promising, deal with a completely different area. I'm not very into details of Fighter Ops so I can't compare to anything, but about Jet Thunder, it won't even compete with DCS. Why? Because it depicts aerial warfare in a specific conflict and time, while DCS works on fictional but possible scenarios in the Caucasus area.
So, we'll probably have:
- Storm of War lonely as top World War II flight-simulation, in terms of realism.
- Rise of Flight alone in nº1 position for fans of the Great War.
- DCS for the hardcore fans of modern airwarfare; with some competition with Jet Thunder, but these are more likely to co-exist in our HDs, instead of competing.
Enough options for every simmers. And for those who, as said by a member at Eagle Dynamics, don't like to "kill anything but time", there will still exist Microboring Flight Simulator X
As the noseart on the P-47 says, "NO GUNS, NO GLORY". Oh wait, it's "GUTS". But the first version shall prevail
PS: I don't know what Fighter Ops will try to replicate, so I don't know in what level we can put it. Because of it, it was left out of the comparsion.