Olegs worst competitors (?) - Microsoft Flight have released new screens...

The only real competition I can see is if Microsoft somehow was able to keep Combat Flight Simulator 4* a secret and release it a month before COD with a huge amount of publicity and media attention and plaster every store that still sells PC games with their boxes and offer it with a 25% off coupon for a newly released MS FFBIII joystick, and also it's only $20 and covers not only the Battle of Britain, but another 2-3 theaters as well and comes with the SDK for no extra charge. Also the game can give perform fellatio on you like a pro.

That might hurt COD a bit!

That might get a few of the casual "on the fence" people to buy that and then skip COD. BUT! If this game is going to turn out how I think it is, every review that would come for CFS4 would also mention how it pales in comparison to COD and how it drags it's teeth a little too much.

*hopefully does not exist

[TeeJay82]

The only thing that gives oleg some competition are the A2A payware planes for FSX (WOP3 series) with accusim

[Codex]

Install Silverlight, No thanks

No Silverlight for me either, thank you

Wow the level of paranoia for something that is basically the same a Adobe's offering ... never ceases to amaze me.

Anyhoo ... FSX / Flight and CoD are chalk and cheese, no point comparing them at all. They both have their own target audience.

I for one like blowing #$%@ up and shooting #$%@ down. But there are some things FSX does do better than IL-2.

With FSX you have larger maps, you can fly around the globe and don't forget the one big winner in my eyes is that MS provides the SDK, which gave the sim community the ability to mod/add to the sim.

Now you should all know by now that modding a sim extends it's life and maintains the support base. Look at Falcon 4 as another example.

Oleg knows this and has stated many times that he wants the same for CoD

I agree with swiss, the terrain textures and 2D trees in FSX suck, but overall, FSX despite its technical hiccups is a well rounded and enjoyable sim, I personally have bought and enjoy A2A's "accusim" P-47 and Classic Hanger's FW-190s

Think of the bigger picture people, competition is good, it only makes our "small" industry expand and keep it alive and MS has certainly blazed the trail in that regard.

[WTE_Galway]

Whilst not a huge FSX fan, one thing it did have over IL2 was 4 seasons not just 2.