@nthony

A while back now, I used to play IL-2 on the PC (Ilyshin 2 being the first real multirole plane, albeit of a rugged Soviet design). Pretty much the only flight game since Falcon3 (back in the days when hills where green vector pyramids) that captured my attention for more than a fleeting moment. The involvement in the dogfights, the thinking in groups, judging the physics - great stuff.

Anyway - demo is out on xbox360 for IL2 Birds of Prey - 1.2Gb download.

It's fab. More than fab (for me) is that the training mission you get with that is over my home county of Kent - and spent some time ignoring the instructor (surprisingly calm given my disobedience) and went on a tour down to Dover, back in over the cliffs, up to Whitstable, LOW along the tide line, in and over my home town, over to RAF Manston and looped over my old school in Ramsgate. Re-sult.

* A quick google for a YouTube of it here.

** Please excuse poor snaps, hurriedly playing when I should have been getting ready for work - SLR in one hand, controller in the other.

*** I believe the hometown pic is coming up to the junction of Grand Drive meeting the Broadway? NICE terrain modelling.