Un add-on pour IL-2 Forgotten Battles

GMX Media est fier d'annoncer l'arrivée pour février 2004 de Combat Over Europe, un add-on destiné à Forgotten Battles, qui était lui-même au départ un add-on pour IL2 Sturmovik mais s'est vu être transformé en jeu à part entière ensuite (cf. ). Bref.

Combat Over Europe proposera esseniellement de nouvelles campagnes, trois du côté de l'Axe et cinq du côté des alliés. Les choses n'ont pas été faites à moitié puisque qu'elles regroupent chacune de 30 à 100 missions. Pour aller avec, les développeurs ont évidemment dessinés de nouvelles skins pour les avions, histoires que les marquages correspondent aux escadrilles.

GMX MEDIA ANNOUNCES COMBAT OVER EUROPE
LONDON, UK (November 28, 2003) - GMX Media today announced that it has secured the worldwide rights to publish - Combat Over Europe. Combat Over Europe is an add-on for IL2 Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles.

Combat Over Europe for IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles features eight new campaigns, special training features, online cooperative missions, a speech pack to convert Russian and German to English, and a skin pack with ten new skins.

Luftwaffe campaigns include the following:

Berlin 1944-1945 Campaign for the Bf 109 - 100 missions
JV44 1945 Campaign for the Me262 - 40 missions
Poland 1939 Campaign for the Ju87 Stuka - 30 missions
Crimea 1942 Campaign for the Bf 109 - 70 missions
A "what if?" Campaign for the I-153 or I-16 set in 1940 - 100 missions
USAAF and RAF campaigns include the following:

D-Day Tactical campaign flying the P-47D. A retired USAAF P-47 pilot is acting as technical advisor.
Strategic campaign April 15 - June 5, 1944 flying the P51-D in escort for B-17s and B-26s
Battle of Britain (using a non British map) with the Hurricane, Spitfire, 109-E4 , Ju-87B Stuka and Me-110 Zerstorer.
A selection of online cooperative missions include a range of aircraft in both summer and winter conditions. Four dogfight maps are also included, allowing you to host an ongoing Battle of Britain scenario online, a D-Day scenario, and others.

Skin sets allow you to fly with historically correct squadron markings. You may choose the 354th Fighter Group for the P-51D, the 404th Fighter Group for the P47-D, or JV44 for the Me262. Additional skins are available for immediate download via the Skin Library feature.

To set the tone, video footage includes historical newsreels from WWII, including Battle of Britain and D-Day footage. Fifteen training tracks provide instruction on air to air gunnery, with eight training tracks for pilots of the tricky Me 262 jet fighter. Single training missions allow you to test your own skills in the German jet. A separate twelve page PDF document provides classroom style instruction in air to air combat for budding aces.

Further documents include A Short History of JV44, Development of the Me262, Flying the Me262 in FB and Allied Aircraft of D-Day. Cockpit guides are included for the Bf 109, the P47D, the P51D, Ju-87B and the Me 262, as well as takeoff and climb performance charts for the P47-D and P51-D. A German and Russian command chart round out the package.

Release Date: Feb 2004.

More information can be found at: http://www.gmxmedia.net/coe/