IL2: Forgotten Battles Gold Pack review:5 stars (Great and well worth it!) - If your going to buy a combat flight sim buy this. Replay, graphics, gameplay, everything is surpurb to anything Microsoft puts out there except FS2004 which is not a combat flight sim.

.........and when you purchase this great bundle buy Combat over Europe and Pacific Fighters to go along with it. Endless gameplay and missions and if you still get bored you can download user-made missions for this game on NetWings.com!
Never gets boring or old!

Overall, it doesn't get any better than this when it comes to WWII combat flight sim's!

Take my word for it!
5 stars (Truly Awesome) - Forgotten Battles (FB) is truly awesome with its amazingly realistic graphics. The detail to aircraft (including cockpit interior)will delight the WWII buff and the sunlight effects are stunning and realistic. You can zoom in and out, and have internal and external views. You will however, need to ensure your computer and graphics card can handle the requirements of the game. The flight model can be adjusted to suit ones own individual skill or pleasure levels. Pilot career campaigns can be created from a whole range aircraft including Stuka, Heinkel 111, ME109, IL2, I16, MIGs etc, although these aircraft could be upgraded during the pilots career. Once you start to amass a tally, the game has you going back for more to increase your tally. Many variety of aircraft can be encountered, including Gladiators, P40 Kittyhawks, P39 Airacobras, JU88s etc. In the midst of combat on bomber aircraft you can take up the postion of gunners and attempt to shoot down marauding fighters. My only gripe is that there is no strategic element to the game and there is no way you can influence the outcome of the war, but then again the air war on the Eastern Front was almost entirely a tactical affair. Perhaps the creators of the game will have a strategic element in the proposed Battle of Britain game. The FB game includes a Quick Mission builder and a Full Mission Builder. The game will certainly provide many hours of enjoyment. 5 stars (Many years of aviation-based enjoyment...) - IL2 and it follow IL2: Forgotten Battles have given me years of pleasure. Oleg Maddox has produced a product of great quality and continued to support it, producing both free updates which include both new planes and other feature and the Aces Expansion Pack. The game was superb to begin with and Oleg's teams hard work, and the many players who have created new planes, cockpits, skins, and utilities have improved it over time.

Graphically, the game is unequalled. The models are very detailed, and look good coming apart at close range. The cockpits also are extremely realistic.

More importantly, the game plays well. The level of realsim is scalable so you don't have to be an expert to begin with, flight sim newbies like myself can ease themself into the daunting task of flying their plane of choice.

The game is a great investment as there are so many planes, campaigns, and various stuff to mess around with it is hard to get tired of this game. Over the years I have played other games but have always come back to IL2.
IL2: Forgotten Battles Gold Pack Features:
Historical (historic) Recreation (Recreations)
Military (Wargames
Computer Games
Action
Shooters (Shooter)
Military (Tactics)
Flight Simulators (Simulations)
Flightsimulator flightsim
Flying
Air
Strategy (Strategic)
CD
For 1 player, or multiplayer over Internet
Sequel to WWII flight simulation game: IL2 Forgotten Battles
30 new flyable aircraft
3 new map areas of Finland, Hungary, and Ukraine Poland
20 new single-player missions and 10 new multiplayer missions

IL2- Forgotten Battles Gold Pack is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 29.99USD.