Ok, just played the demo, yes the graphics are amazing and smooth. I really enjoyed the La-7 mission, to watch the whole city smoking and so many planes was really neat, really felt like you were there, great feeling of motion and realism. The flight model is def. arcade, as is the gameplay, and there is waaaayyy to much "hud" stuff going on around you (this can probably be turned off), the DM is also poor, and I didn't even know I had been hit until I looked outside and saw holes in my plane. The radio voices are very corny, english with a cheesy russian/british/you name it/ accent, and lots of repetition. The interface is kind of a pain to setup joystick and keys etc. but the cinematics and music are great. On a whole I really enjoyed *watching* the whole sim, all the little details on the ground, enemy encampments, houses, makeshift runways etc, flak everywhere etc. WoP feels much more "alive" than il2. But *actually playing* the sim was lackluster compared to Il2.
An interesting thing was that with all its amazing graphics it still runs faster than Il2 in perfect mode...(but Il2 with water=4 still has better water!). So if we could get the graphics of this with the realism of Il2, that would be great. But Il2 is still much better, I think SoW has nothing to worry about from this sim unless wop really change directions towards realism.
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01-14-2010, 01:50 PM
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