IL-2 Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles details

Ubi Soft has today released further details on IL-2 Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles, the first expansion pack for the award-winning IL-2 Sturmovik air combat simulation. The original game was released in November 2001, and although the expansion was announced in May 2002, very little information about it has been released until now.

The Forgotten Battles expansion will add 20 new single-player missions, 10 cooperative multiplayer missions, 12 new AI aircraft, and 27 flyable aircraft to the original game when it is released this winter. The list of new aircraft included in the expansion is as follows:

New flyable aircraft:
Ju-87D-3 (German "Stuka")
Ju-87G-1
Bf-109G-14
Bf-109G-10
Bf-109K-4
FW-190D-9
He-111H-2 (multiple-crew bomber)
He-111H-6 (multiple-crew bomber)
Me-262A-1a
Me-262A-2a
Brewster Buffalo F2A (Finnish Air Force)
Hurricane Mk I (Finnish Air Force)
La-5
La-5F
La-7
La-7
I-153 M-62
I-153P
Hurricane Mk IIB
Hurricane Mk IIC
Hurricane Mk II
P-47D-10 (American "Thunderbolt")
P-47D-22
P-40E
P-40M
P-40
TB-3 (multiple-crew bomber)

New AI aircraft:
Bristol Blenheim MK I (Finnish Air Force)
Bristol Blenheim MK IV (Finnish Air Force)
Fiat G-50 (Finnish Air Force)
Morane MS.406 (Finnish Air Force)
Morane MS.410 (Finnish Air Force)
Mörkö Morane (Finnish Air Force)
IL-4
SB-2
Bf-110C
Bf-110G
Me-210Ca-1 (Hungarian Air Force)
Me-210Ca-1 Zerstörer (Hungarian Air Force)

Other new features in the expansion include three new maps suitable for solo or multiplayer games, a ranking and award system for Finnish and Hungarian pilots, improved flight dynamics, more realistic AI, search lights, barrage balloons, and four new large ships including the Russian battleship Marat, Russian cruisers Aurora and Kirov, and German cruiser Niobe.

IL-2 Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles is scheduled for release this winter. For more information, take a look at our IL-2 Sturmovik of the game.