![]() Although IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is simple enough to play, it also features a lot of depth and technical detail. The game also comes with the usual multiplayer options and a host of different play modes. "The Germans did us the favor of taking a lot of photographs of everything they were about to destroy," said Subbotin, drily. It includes thousands of photographs taken by German spy planes before the battle, allowing the designers to place landscape features just as they were 70 years ago. IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, which comes out on Windows PC in September, features a single-player campaign that is based on maps and documents lifted from recently opened files in the Russian Historical Military Society. The first time he shot from a plane, was in a battle over the city. When Mikoyan joined the real Battle of Stalingrad he had only about 10 hours of flight experience. They could practice a lot because it really is like reality." "He said that he wished that we could have had some of these. "He was also quite impressed by the whole virtual plane set-up," added Subbotin. According to 1C, much effort has been put into making sure AI aircraft behave as real pilots would. What he liked most of all was the virtual world's ability to recreate dogfights. "He always thought of this only from the first-person view perspective." "He said it was very unusual to see a fighter plane and the pilot from the third person view, when we switched to the external camera," said 1C Game Studios' Anatoly Subbotin. But this is still a game, and he found the switch to a third-person camera somewhat disconcerting. He approved of the aircraft's lovingly recreated detail, including in-cockpit controls and shafts. Mikoyan recently visited 1C's offices to look at the game and take a virtual flight. The Soviets regrouped and spent months fighting back, in some of the most brutal and desperate combat of the war. ![]() The new game is built on a grand scale, a 48,000-square mile recreation of Stalingrad and its surrounding area, right at the moment the Nazis took the city, and almost destroyed it. He recently visited 1C's offices to offer some input on the game.ġC has been holding a torch for flight sims for over a decade, all the way back to IL-2 Sturmovikin 2001. His most recent project has been as adviser to 1C Game Studio, the Moscow-based creator of flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad.Īs a survivor of the Battle of Stalingrad, a moment of deep significance for his country, he is well known. ![]() Now, in his nineties, he still takes an interest in all things aviation-related. He was recognized as a Hero of the Soviet Union. After the Nazis had been booted out of Stalingrad, after the war was won, he became a test pilot for a new generation of jet fighter planes. ![]() Stepan Anastovich Mikoyan was still in his teens when he climbed into a fighter plane in 1942, and prepared to participate in the nastiest battle of the 20th Century.Ī son of a Politburo grandee, he learned to become a skilled fighter and pilot. ![]()
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