IL-2 Sturmovik is a series which has been running (or flying, if you must) for around half a decade now. Alongside Lock On 4.0 and Microsoft Flight Sim, it forms the highly-successful third pillar in the ‘let’s pretend we’re flying’ triptych. It’s renowned for realism so unforgiving that it would totally hold a grudge forever if you just bumped into it on the tube by accident one time, for the sort of comprehensiveness that makes those really thick dictionaries look pamphlet-like in stature, and for thoroughly exposing the oft-ignored Russian side of the war.
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