About IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles:

IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles is the first expansion pack for the hugely popular, multi-award winning IL-2 Sturmovik World War II combat flight simulation. The expansion pack is being created by the original IL-2 Sturmovik's developer, 1C Maddox Games, assuring the high level of quality, detail and realism that flight simulation enthusiasts demand. It includes three new maps for both single and multiplayer play, including the Finnish gulf from Helsinki to Leningrad, the Balaton Lake area of Hungary, and L'vov covering the Ukraine and Poland. With 20 new single player missions and 10 new cooperative multiplayer missions, and a new dynamic campaign system, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles expands the aerial battlefield for IL-2 owners, adding almost limitless replayability. The expansion pack also adds 27 new flyable, and 12 new AI controlled aircraft to faithfully recreate the WWII aerial combat experience.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles also features:

• New AI ground objects and vehicles for each new map area, with new 3D building models
• Ranking and award system for Finnish and Hungarian pilots
• Selectable custom skins in single play mode for players and all AI aircraft
• All IL-2: FB aircraft available in Quick Mission Builder, except seaplanes and gliders
• Improved flight dynamics
• More realistic AI scripting to create more realistic battles
• New engine management relating to radiators, superchargers and fuel mixture control for different altitudes
• Online track recorder
• A New system of single play track recording
• Search lights and barrage balloons
• 4 new large ships including the Russian battleship Marat, Russian cruisers Aurora and Kirov and German cruiser Niobe
• 27 New flyable aircraft:

• Ju-87D-3 (German "Stuka")
• Ju-87G-1
• Bf-109G-14
• Bf-109G-10
• Bf-109K-4
• FW-190D-9
• He-111H-2 (multi-crewed flyable bomber)
• He-111H-6 (multi-crewed flyable bomber)
• Me-262A-1a
• Me-262A-2a
• Brewster Buffalo F2A (Finnish Air Force)
• Hurricane Mk I (Finnish Air Force)
• La-5
• La-5F
• La-7 (2x20mm ShVAK cannons)
• La-7 (3x20mm B-20 cannons)
• I-153 M-62
• I-153P
• Hurricane Mk IIB
• Hurricane Mk IIC
• Hurricane Mk II (with Russian cannons and machineguns)
• P-47D-10 (American "Thunderbolt")
• P-47D-22
• P-40E
• P-40M
• P-40 (Russian Field Mode with Soviet M-105P engine)
• TB-3 (multi-crewed flyable bomber)

• 12 New AI aircraft:
  • Bristol Blenheim MK I (Finnish Air Force)
  • Bristol Blenheim MK IV (Finnish Air Force)
  • Fiat G-50 (Finnish Air Force)
  • Morane MS.406 (Finnish Air Force)
  • Morane MS.410 (Finnish Air Force)
  • Mörkö Morane (Finnish Air Force)
  • IL-4
  • SB-2
  • Bf-110C
  • Bf-110G
  • Me-210Ca-1 (Hungarian Air Force)
  • Me-210Ca-1 Zerstörer (Hungarian Air Force)

About IL-2 Sturmovik

Released in November 2001, IL-2 Sturmovik has set new standards of realism and gameplay in the combat flight simulation genre. It is the world's most realistic WWII combat flight simulation, allowing you to fly more than 30 types of Russian, German and American planes, engage in air-to-air and air-to-ground battles and destroy any ground object, such as buildings, bridges, airfields, and more. Play campaign missions and track your career (with ranks and awards), fighting against intelligent AI opponents and multi-play with up to 32 human or AI players in dogfight. The title, developed by game developer 1C Maddox Games has swept almost every gaming award on it's way to becoming the most critically acclaimed flight simulation title of 2002.

IL-2 Sturmovik is available now at retail stores worldwide. Visit the IL-2 Sturmovik website at http://www.il2sturmovik.com and experience the demo today.