SOW freview

[HFC_Dolphin]

SOW is a nice game, but I got bored of it pretty soon.
All of my old friends are not flying anymore.
In all these years of waiting, some of them passed away, some others got married and had children. A couple of them started university and now are doing their PhD. One of them discovered that he's happier as a transvestie and doesn't play pc games anymore. He prefers buying makeup stuff. One other is travelling around the world on a bicycle. Most of them just kept on their lifes and can't reach them anymore in their XXX-squad@squadsmail.com.

New pilots are good guys, but SoW is their first simulator and it'll take lot of time to develop their skills and tactics to the level I used to know.

Graphics are better. Quite better than IL-2's.

Sound is at mods' level.

FM is better, but still limited by the fact that it's still played in a PC, on a 15-30'' monitor. Still can't make you feel any better than IL-2.

DM is much-much better and that' the greatest imprivement over IL-2. There are so many different ways of getting hit, but still the controls become "unsuable".

The map is much better than all of the IL-2's maps, but if I had to pick between this one SOW map and the many IL-2's maps, I'd choose the IL-2's maps.
There are many objects in the maps, but this makes it too difficult for my pc, especially online. I can choose the smaller online map, but then I lose most of the beauty of the big map.

Online transfer protocols are sofisticated, but as mentioned before, are limited by the connections we still have. Cheating is impossible for the time being, if using the standard version.

We got the choice to create our own online maps and use modded planes in them, but this made the thing worse, cause now the (already small) community is split in many parts and besides the standard map, in all other maps cheats exist. I still remember the first time I saw a Stuka flying faster than my Spitfire. I hunted it for 30' but then I quit. It was worse than hunting a P38 with a BF109 in IL-2 days.

One other thing that I don't like is that in only a few months a new add-on appears and we have to pay again for new content. Many people do not buy the new add-on and the community is split even more. Rumours say that we're going to see at least 4 add-on, therefore I can only imagine a lobby full of people flying different versions of the game. In the end, most of them can't find other people flying the same version, thus they chat for a while and then leave to play offline "Pacman 2014", the only good game that was released in the same year as SOW.