In my opinion, yes, it is worth it, there are some things to keep in mind however as you are coming from 1946.
1.) The main menu system is pretty clumsy at best, it is simple enough to use but some functionality that existed in 1946 is simply not there, this mainly manifests itself when you are trying to set up your loadouts for your aircraft.
2.) The quick battle is not nearly as functional as it was in 1946, instead of choosing your plane and the enemy planes, loadouts, altitudes and so forth in one menu, you select a sort of "canned mission" and change a few variables, minor in the whole scheme of things but this is something that I would have thought was a no-brainer.
3.) The sim is very demanding on your GPU VRAM, I found it "playable" on my older Geforce 9800 GT with 512 Mb but the ground was a blurry mess as a result, it was difficult to find landing areas and also to navigate as a result, after I upgraded to a Radeon 7770 2GB, it works very well but that is mostly due to the 2GB of VRAM, something to keep in mind I suppose.
4.) You will need to change all the default ammo belt settings for every plane, frankly, the ones packaged with the sim are useless at best and will get you killed at worst, this is made tougher because of a somewhat clumsy way that you have to do this and make it stick.
Now some good stuff to keep in mind.
1.) You will not find another realistic WWII sim like this (at the moment), while it has it's issues (that are allegedly going to be mostly fixed with a mod), it is still the only realistic WWII sim out there, it has a very authentic feel that is only increased by the limited (thankfully) but well represented plane set.
2.) Graphics are very nice assuming you have a GPU that can deliver them, while I would not call it the end all, be all of flight sims graphically, it is very pretty and manages to really capture the feel very well.
3.) Flight models are mostly good, again, this is something that is allegedly going to be fixed with a mod so it will probably be even better soon.
4.) It has a nice mission editor, I would love to see more tutorials on youtube or something but it is still pretty nice and it is somewhat easy to whip up a new mission to play.
Finally, IL-2 Cliffs of Dover is a good sim, I won't go as far as to call it a great one (at least until mods work out most of the big problems) but it is still the best we have at the moment. I find it a shame that development was handled so badly, had it had a bit more time in the oven, it would have been fantastic.
Buy it and make your own call, it is a good sim and worth owning anyway.
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