What has been your progress through WW2 flight simulation?

[wannabetheace]

Interesting thread indeed,

for me I was interested in flying games since child.
first flying game I remember was from chinese 8 bit console games, there were one game that shoots in 3rd person view in wwii I think it was corsair but at that time I didn't know which plane it was anyway

Generally I'm into wwii and made toy models myself like t34, fighters russian (didn't know indivual types so my model was universal more like La similar to russian) and bf109, russian late war commercial plane An-2. ...etc

later I in search for fight games and found free FighterAce.. on internet.
This is the first combat flight game I've ever tried.

Then interested and looked for another but this time i bought Desert Storm I don't remember exactly cause back those days I play with keyboards gameplay was terrible for me and I'm not into jets

Then I search for best games on interent and found IL2 reviews so I moved on since then I'm an IL2 series fan but when I found it was already 1946 then.

Now I have Clod and gonna buy all series regardless of current states of this game

yes i've tried wings of prey and rof. but all I want is IL2s

[Nirvi]

WW2 only:

CFS3
Luftwaffe Commander
B17 - Mighty 8th
Il2 1946
Il2 CoD
DCS P51

[CWMV]

Aces of the Pacific
Janes WW2 fighters
IL2
IL2+Mods
CoD
IL2+Mods.

[Alan Grey]

Janes WW2 fighters
EAW
CFS 2 + 3
IL2 1946
CloD

[AKA_Tenn]

CFS was the very first flight sim i ever saw, didn't know what it was though
Air warrior 3 was the next one i played
I got into some cheesy one on msn gaming zone for a while
then into the ones like aces high and warbirds and ones like them
then i got into the original red baron for quite a while, fun game...
then i discovered IL2FB, never looked back for about 10 years pretty much lived for that game...
and now i've been playing mostly all the DCS games,rise of flight, still playing FB, and ofcoarse cliffs.

I played janes WW2 fighters and CFS 2 and 3, but by the time i got a chance to try them they were already past their prime, replaced by il2

[BGs_Ricky]

WW2 only:

Amiga 500:

- Lucas Arts "Their Finest Hour, the Battle of Britain", I rember playing it at the beginning with no sound because I had only 512Ko of RAM. I had to to spend nearly 100 bucks to buy 512 more to be able to have the sounds in-game

- Rowan's Reach for the Skies, another BOB sim.

PC:

- European Air WAr

- Fighting Squadron: Screaming Demons Over Europe (awesome physics for its time, a flyable Lancaster too !!)

- Rowan's BOB (the original one)

- Il-2

- Cliffs Of Dover

[Kupsised]

I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet, but I started off way back with Air Warrior II. The intro was probably my favourite thing about this game. That, and the fact that it had sheep you could run over or strafe. You could literally drive or fly anything in that game, but all the tanks and jeeps had FM's, so you could do a barrel roll in a tank. In hindsight, the phsyics weren't all that great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltZST2LJ8t0

From that, it was CFS, CFS2, a brief stint in EAW and a B17 game that I can't remember the name of but had the absolute best crew management systems in any flight sim I've ever played, I still wish someone would remake it. Then after that came the various itterations of Il2, from the original, to FB, PF, then 1946 with mods. Now I split my time between CloD, RoF and A10, though with the latter I haven't had time to learn the systems. Although it seems an amazing sim in theory, I'm too lazy to learn to play it properly.

EDIT: It's not really a flight sim, but did anyone play a BoB game way back in the 90's on PC where you were in the ops room and had to control the placements of RAF flights to intercept incoming raids etc.? You'd get radar and OC warnings as to where and what raids were coming, then had to scramble the aircraft to that location and detail to raid etc. Again, hands down probably one of the best games I've ever played, it's so brilliantly simple. Unfortunately though all it says on the disc is 'Battle of Britain', and there doesn't seem to be a game with that name, so I've never been able to find it again.

[raaaid]

cfs, eaw,cfs2, il2

[BGs_Ricky]

Originally Posted by Kupsised

I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet, but I started off way back with Air Warrior II. The intro was probably my favourite thing about this game. That, and the fact that it had sheep you could run over or strafe. You could literally drive or fly anything in that game, but all the tanks and jeeps had FM's, so you could do a barrel roll in a tank. In hindsight, the phsyics weren't all that great.

Oh, forgot about that one, played it a bit waiting for EAW to come out...loved that intro too, the rest, beh, not so much