I completely understand what you're saying, or at least I think I do haha.
This will also be my first accurate combat flight sim experience.
I've played the old Flight Sim games on my PC years back, but I spent more time trying to get the damn thing to work properly (as with most PC games) than I actually did flying. And of course it wasn't a combat flight sim either.
Of course, the best way to learn is to just get in there and dogfight around in the game, and I can't wait. Graphical fidelity has reached the point where we can have this incredibly accurate, realistic looking simulator for such a low price, it's really amazing.
Since I doubt any of us have flown BF109s or La-7s before, and I'm guessing most of us never will, this will probably the closest we get.
I know this game isn't much like COD4, but to me that game was a very new experience despite the fact that I've been playing multiplayer shooters for over a decade, it's because COD4 made it so easy and quick to play with all my friends that we could actually strategize, and strategize a lot, for the first real time in a game. When we tried on PC games there were so many technical obstacles to get around, but on the consoles its so simple.
That's what I'm really looking forward to with IL2 BOP. If footslogging it around in COD4 can be fun when strategizing with friends, imagine how much more fun it will be flying WWII combat aircraft around above the clouds.
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