[Houndstone Hawk]

Raw Kryptonite.

That's a very fair point re: the number of aircraft & to comparing it to the last IL-2 PC title.
the number of aircraft ingame is but a very small point I made, although I'll admit that a third person only view for bombingt in the Blenheim is ludicrous & contrary to what the manual & ingame encyclopea suggests, it is NOT a gunners viepoint but merely the third person camera.
Even the original IL-2 which I am more than happy to compare this to (& can be picked up for less than a fiver now), had not only the mission editor & the quick face-offs, both powerful but so easy to use but also the nuances that are second nature to a flight sim; feel & immersion without the need to rely on cheap & chavvy movie-like over dramatic effects (like a skillfully executed belly landing at next to no speed only to end in a huge explosion). I know this title lacks on alot of stuff but not even a flyby camera? Maybe the console generation don't feel the need to marvel at a great dogfight after a mission but having been a console gamer since the 8-bit NES days, I'm thinking that there's nothing different between someone who enjoys a flight game on PC, console, whatever. We all paid 4 times the current price of IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 & ppl are left with a game that can only be played with a pad, can't be viewed as any form of replay, can't enjoy any real gameplay as a bomber or from an axis point of view, hell, can't even take off at the start of a mission or even in training skirmishes. So much immersion & simple playability has been needlessly taken away from the player .... IN MY VIEW!!!

Thanks for putting me straight though on the 1st point as it was unfair of me to compare it to 1946. But for the guy who thinks I'm raising the bar a bit too high for console games... Hello??? You've just paid between 30 & 40 quid on a piece of software that has been released years after the original. All I wanted was something remotely close to that experience. Hardly setting the bar too high I think!

Soviet Ace, I fear, has hit the nail square on the head & a good point made!!!