IL2 fans in here NOW!!

[Nick]

505 Games are hosting a live streaming demo of their upcoming WWII flight shooter IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey at the following location: http://ustre.am/534e, kicking off at 12.30pm TODAY!!

The demo is hosted by 505's Mark Allen and will start from 12:30. Viewers will be able to ask questions live through the chat function. For anyone who misses the event as it happens, all chat posts, questions and answers will include the hashtag #IL2LiveDemo for easy Twitter reference.

Get yer bums in there if you want to pick the devs brains for IL2 goodness!

[Dakaras]

Im there

[MadduckUK]

are IL2 fans generally unemployed or something?

[Nick]

Good man Dakky.

I would be in there too, but I'm muller busy at the office.... damn videos...

[Dakaras]

Self employed working at a friends house nobbling his PC Due to txts

[Geist]

hmm looks good.

Catching 20mins on my lunch

Although not a fan of that arcade mode.... unlimited ammo etc. was never the greatest part of the games.

[Grey M@a]

This is my type of game and I love the dog fight games. However, since playing the demo, it doesn't feel right in the control of the planes. I will pick this up but probably a month or two down the line when its cheaper for the 360

[menthel]

Damn, missed this! I have it ordered on 360. I quite liked the demo.

[Grey M@a]

Damn, missed this! I have it ordered on 360. I quite liked the demo.

It's still streaming, showing simulator mode and it looks a handful at best xD

[Dakaras]

Well cheers for heads up Nick.

Its pretty but tbh Im struggling to see how it has improved gameplay wise over the orginal series, also no mention of PC so that rules me out anyway as Im not a console gamer. Simulation mode looks like the real deal IL2 wise, and the hanger / encyclopedia is a nice touch. But from what ive seen so far they have taken a supurb game, stuck it on console and turned it into an arcade shoot em up....nothing wrong with that if thats your thing but I wont be rushing out to buy a console to play it....If it comes out on PC then Ill rethink then.

I cant see hardcore full real IL2ers finding anything new in this.

[Grey M@a]

Don't think this is seeing a PC release, at the end he said it was out on the 360, ps3, DS and Wii

I could be tempted by the DS version over the 360 so I can get a bit of arcade dog fighting on the go

[Geist]

The end. They said they were going to put the preview up as a download.

The 360 demo is already out.

PS3 demo will be out on the 20th Aug.

You have to play Arcade -> Realistic to get to sim settings.

It looked a bit wrong inside the cockpit thought. Very zoomed out but I'm not sure if that was just the stream.

Also I've never been a fan of control pads for fine accurate movements. It showed when he was playing especially in the sim mode how hard it was to line up a target.

Edit:

I agree with Dak.

[Skii]

The 360 demo does seem a tad arcady, but after unlocking sim mode (which you have to do EVERY time you play the demo) the full sim aspect is there to sample.

This is the best preview I've seen so far.

I'm not jumping up and down with excitement yet, yes this will be a blast online and I can see it working very well on XBL, however nowhere in any reviews or previews have we seen any footage or screenshots of German cockpits, pretty concerning for those of us (ahem) partial to taking a 190for a spin, and currently a big bone of contention in the developer forums.

We'll see, it is aiming to keep the arcaders and the sim-heads happy, no mean feat.

[Andy3536]

Don't think this is seeing a PC release, at the end he said it was out on the 360, ps3, DS and Wii

I could be tempted by the DS version over the 360 so I can get a bit of arcade dog fighting on the go

Whole other game from Il2 comming out on PC only, and after playing the demo where i shot down about 20 bombers in about 5 mins, i figure i'll wait for that.
Not for me at all, tempted to reinstall the original though and play that again.