SoW: Battle for Moscow and other Igromir news

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Splitter

While I probably knew more than the Average American about what went on in Russia during the war, I had no desire to buy a sim about a Russian ground attack plane.

I wanted air to air combat. I wanted to be able to fly American, British, and German fighters. After looking at the original way back when, I didn't pay much attention to the series after that (though I did buy and play Pacific Fighters without knowing there was any connection to IL-2).

Names are important. IL-2 had me fooled into thinking it was only about air to ground. I was ignorant of later add ons that would have made the game a must have for me.

Americans will like a great sim about the Battle of Britain but they would LOVE an add on centered around the invasion of Europe and the bombing campaign against Germany. Hopefully that somehow gets done by someone in the future.

So hopefully they get the name right. Since IL-2 was so popular, that needs to be in there somewhere but not "up front". The name also has to be generalized to cover other theaters and other types of games.

Splitter

You are a great example of what I was talking about. If you would have purchased that copy of IL-2 in 2001 you would have seen how superior it was by leaps and bounds compared to anything else that was around back then...2001 But youre wrong IL-2 isn't a popular sim because people still don't know the title or have tried it. When is the last time you've seen a copy in London Drugs Wallmart Future Shop etc. CFS3 probably out sells it 100 to 1 witch is a terrible shame.