On my morning stroll though the news pages of the online gaming world I wandered into an old friend, “IL-2″. As it’s been so long since I’ve heard that name, I was drawn into what I was hoping to be some Storm Of War: Battle of Britain news. Unfortunately I was to taken to an Xbox360 news area. What I was to read and what I was to view was enough to make me want to put on my goggles and scarf and fire up the old boy.

The game I’m going to tell you about is IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. Now it’s only a short piece but it does come along with a video and some screens. The game is the first console game from the makers of the hardcore PC flight sim. With arcade style controls and chase view HUD for the console world, it also has options for hardcore flying. With large scale combat and a new damage and physics engine the game looks impressive, with a large 3D landscape that tops the PC counter-part. Until any more news of Storm of War comes to light and if you own a 360 or PS3 this may just have to do until then!