Oleg's Russian Interview Translated

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

...it seems to me like they had stuff like flightmodels, cockpits, dynamic weathersystems, squadron-size takeoff etc up and going allready in 2006. That's not bad for not even having really started working yet.

In 2007, SaQSoN or Luthier (don't remember wich, and can not find the post) said that 1C could not afford NOT to release the game in 2008. Such a statement would normally indicate that the product in 2007 was in it final stage. If they had only started working in 2007, that's a little short funding for such a complex product.

The thing that Oleg said in December that he hoped to have the SoW:BOB site up and running around the end of December is another weird mismatch between what he says and what we see.
Skarphol

Well, I get a strong feeling of some kind of a restart in 2007. Like many have said there were indications from MG of a release in 2005 way back when (so they must have been working on it since 2003 at least). Then we had the Ubidate of 2006 and indications from Oleg about 2007... If they are at 60% now and talk about a "start" in 2007 I guess that they scrapped large portions of the code in 2007 and started from scratch? The 3D code would become rather out of date in a prolonged project like this after 5+ years...

If a restart was made in 2007, I'm gladly waiting until it's done...

/Mazex