Birds of Prey hunt the DS

by Candace Savino { Jun 9th 2008 at 2:00PM }

European PC publisher 1C is trying its hand at the current-gen consoles and handhelds, including everything except the Wii in its latest venture, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. Browsing through 1C's resume, we didn't find anything of note, but the again we're not really in-the-know when it comes to PC gaming.

If former endeavors are any indication of future performance, the fact that the company's previous IL-2 Sturmovik games rated well on Metacritic is a bit soothing. We'll be interested to see if 1C can translate its PC success onto the DS, although newbie DS developer DiP Interactive isn't the most confidence-inspiring of choices. As for the game's premise, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is a World War II flight simulator that lets the player engage in five airborne battles: The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun.

Since 1C is a European publisher, we're going to assume that this game is only for Europe until we hear differently.

Tags: 1c, birds-of-prey, dip, europe, flight-simulator, il-2-sturmovik, il-2-sturmovik-birds-of-prey, world-war-2, world-war-ii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Thomas @ Jun 9th 2008 2:55PM

ZOMG I can't believe this !!! I'm so excited about this ! I didn't play a good plane sim game since a looooonnng time, and I was very disapointed in Jet Impulse (weird controls and mission objectives in japanese). The IL-2 games on PC were very good (just check Metacritic), although I'm not a big fan of WW2 games. Can't wait to see more screenshots of this (and I hope the DS version will not get a bad treatment).

Aparoid @ Jun 9th 2008 3:19PM

The DS needs some good aviation games. So far I've only found Star Fox Command to cut it, and it's not really in that genre.

Spitfire Heroes wasn't disappointing, mainly because I wasn't expecting anything. And whatever happened to DS Air?

Anyway, I'll be keeping a close eye on this game.