| IL-2 Sturmovik | |
|---|---|
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:2001_IL-2_Sturmovik_logo.jpg){kind=logo} The original IL-2 Sturmovik logo that 1C:Maddox Games designed back in 2001. | |
| Genre(s) | Combat flight simulator |
| Developer(s) | 1C:Maddox Games, Team Fusion Simulations and 1C Game Studios |
| Publisher(s) | 1C, Ubisoft |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| First release | IL-2 Sturmovik November 18, 2001 |
| Latest release | IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles November 19, 2013 |
IL-2 Sturmovik (Russian: Ил-2 Штурмовик) is a series of World War II combat flight simulation video games originally created in 2001 by Russian video game developer Maddox Games under the brand name 1C:Maddox Games, following its association with 1C Company. Maddox Games left 1C Company in 2011. Since 2012, 1C's new developers are 1C Game Studios (who develops the Great Battles series of simulation games) and Team Fusion Simulations (who develops the Dover series of simulation games). Thus, 1C Company currently owns the IL-2 Sturmovik label and runs three different accumulated generations of IL-2 games (three generations of IL-2 games have been established as three different game engine stages have been developed since 2001).
Along with its sequels, IL-2 Sturmovik is considered one of the leading World War II flight simulators.[1] The series covers a number of flyable aircraft of Soviet, German, American, British, Japanese, French, Italian, Romanian, Czechoslovak, Polish and other origins.[citation needed] Different games of the series cover different theaters of World War II, including the Eastern Front, the Western Front and the Pacific theater.[2]
- ^ Spotlight: Ilushin IL2 Shturmovik, Digital age Shturmoviks. Fly Past magazine, pp 54-73. April 2011
- ^ "IL-2 Sturmovik Retrospective: Pacific Fighters". SimHQ. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2019.