This started the original line of IL-2 Sturmovik games which in the present day is officially titled IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 as this was the title of its 'Complete Edition' back in 2006, the final compilation of add-ons in the first generation of IL-2 games.

The first game in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik, was first released on 18 November 2001.IL-2 Sturmovik games spans three generations : 5.4 IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte.5.1 IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad.3.2.2 IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles - Gold Pack.3.2.1 IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles - Ace Expansion Pack.2.3 Third generation of games ( Great Battles series).2.2 Second generation of games ( Dover series).2.1 First generation of games ( IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946).

Different games of the series cover different theaters of World War II, including the Eastern Front, the Western Front and the Pacific theater. The series covers a number of flyable aircraft of Soviet, German, American, British, Japanese, French, Italian, Romanian, Czechoslovak, Polish and other origins. 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).Īlong with its sequels, IL-2 Sturmovik is considered one of the leading World War II flight simulators. 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). 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.

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