Well I don't know about you. But I don't play them, just to tell people at some gathering etc. that I downed 16 He-111s in my La-5FN in one sortie. So in my case, I do just play for fun. Games like these, are just a place to relax and enjoy. Like drinking a cool beer on a hot day. So unless for some reason, you see me talking about how I downed 16 He-111s in my La-5FN in one sortie. Video games are just for fun.

You don't win anything when you beat them, except the little pride you get once you have beaten the game. Everyone including myself gets that.

I have 1946 on PC, its by far the best WW2 flight sim on PC... I also have flight sim x, and the MS combat flight sim 3... I was very happy when I heard they were releasing Il-2 for the consoles...

AS for expectations... This is the first ever true Flight sim on consoles that I know about... i am sure they had others back in the day with poopy graphis no cockpits etc. For being the first entry of a series this game ROCKS!!!! I am sad that MS will not allow my Saitek x-45 to work on the 360, but oh well, I found a ace edge bundle on ebay and after 4 tries at different bundles I got one for 113 shipped ( which is fine by me, since it comes with a game, and its exactly like the x-45 as far as I know.

It is unfortunate that Oleg and the other programmers of this game had to bend to the publisher's wishes... If you know anything about publishers all they care about is money and profit margins. They are not going to allow the dev to "waste time" making every single plane 100% realistic in a first ever release... NO ONE will invest that much into an unproven franchise on a new platform..... with that said, give it some time. Hopefully they will allow custonizing the controls, and or ala forza 2 with the MS wireless wheel allow tweaking of the Deadzone in game..

I love this game right now... I am waiting on doing realistic and sim modes tillI get my ace edge... i think the biggest gripe I have right now is the air starts on all the missions.... I loved 1946's missions where you had to take off, and fly to target. But hey 49.99 with a free T-shirt rocks!!! I basically paid 5$ for the game if you take into account the T-shirt and me trading in 3 games I never played anymore.

only other gripe I have so far is the AI planes. My wingman took a full 6 minutes to down a bomber from 300 ft dead lvl directly behind it... he was firing his guns for the full 6 mins. REALLY? even on arcade I get pwned if I do that on a a bomber. Oh wait one more thing... I hate the auto bailout feature.... and the timer if you chose to continue the mission... seriously... I ended up crash landing a perfectly good plane on arcade mode because they gave me 8 minutes to RTB after I chose to continue... basically had to do wep non stop and got to the base with 1 minute to spare and I still had to line up my approach... nothing like doing a hammerhead stall just to try to land because the timer was running down!

lolz-all the knuckle draggers will be on MW2

unfortunately such untermensch make up the majority of the paying prole public...they fund the development of more unteresting stuff...bit like Good Directors making pape sh!te in order to fund their own pet projects...unfortunately the lure of the big buck somehow makes some of them forget themselves (e.g. Roberto Rodriguez)
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Hash Honey Oil

Totally agree.

Goody - I can't wait to have another crack at that secret giant Nazi Zeppelin thats based in Cairo and has several squadrons of 190's inside of it!!

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or the secret Hitler Rocket Stuka Boss Plane-If you look really hard you'll see his little chaplin moustache and in the cockpit is a little photo of Eva ironing his Lederhosen beside a nodding churchill..."smoke me ze kipper. I'll be back unt time for KnokWurzt!"
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Vaporizer

Blazing Angles!? Not even close.

Before you say that, how about you try every mission on Sim with one, or even two attempts.

Or, is all the hate because the game is easier without a flightstick? Can't learn to use a controller?

+1

people today- you give em gold and they moan its just shiny yellow...

if people honestly want to compare bop to blazing angels then they obviously are frustrated at the lack of a decent groinal attachment for their PC...
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NO2 VAPORIZER REVIEW

I bolded what I am replying to here....

Its not hate at all... the game is not easier with or without a flightstick... its the fact that not everyone likes the set controller settings programmed into the game... That includes the horrible deadzones that are programmed into the game that are proven to be due to the game and not the flightstick...

give me an ability to swap control sticks and then we can talk about using a controller.

As long as you don't touch the sensitivity levels there is really no dead zone with a controller.

If there is no option to swap sticks in the first update, I do think it would be a mistake.