Quick Look: IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover

that game blow my mind, I want to play and testing planes right now!

Wow, those cockpits look incredible.

That gun sound effect kinda sounds like the pulse rifle from Aliens to me.

How about doing a DCS: A-10C Warthog Quick Look after this one, and/or about the Digital Combat Simulator series in general?

Worthing and Shoreham! I live near there!

Flight sims are fuckin' crazy, ya'll! These seem like the kind of games that are pretty much made for this kind of messing around.

"Maybe we can just drive there"

i could just watch Vinny talking to randoms in a chat room

vinny and drew, playing the shit games so we don't have to

This was probably one of the greatest quicklooks ever.  The livestream IL-2-Sturmovik bit was solid gold as well.

Awesome Quick Look! It actually felt like you were hanging out with two friends who genuinely liked messing around with video games :D

"We gotta do the magnetos too." -Drew 
"Ah yeah, your curly mustache." -Vinny 
<3 Vinny should've been wearing this while doing the quick look: http://www.brokentier.com/collections/ifc-yipes-collection/products/curly

To me these games are crash simulators. That is all I can figure how to do in them.

@Outrager said:

"We gotta do the magnetos too." -Drew
"Ah yeah, your curly mustache." -Vinny
<3 Vinny should've been wearing this while doing the quick look: http://www.brokentier.com/collections/ifc-yipes-collection/products/curly

I have one of those! :D

Reminds me of when I was breaking off wings with G-forces in Red Baron 2. That game had some pretty advanced physics for 1997. The wings could twist and snap in all sorts of ways.

you guys should record your audio a bit louder, I have to crank my speakers up just to hear you guys talk, and then when someone IMs me it scares the crap out of me.

Man I was losing it at that chatroom conversation. Great quick look overall.

The current is pulled to far back on this quicklook. Because I know Vinny knows the answers to his questions.

@Hockeymask27 said:

The current is pulled to far back on this quicklook. Because I know Vinny knows the answers to his questions.

I feel the same. EVERYTHING I KNEW IS A LIE!

@gladspooky: yeah man i totally agree im not familiar with falcon 3.0 but i played the shit out of tie fighter i keep hoping steam or gog will add tie fighter to their lists. i also remember playing the hell out of janes usaf

@Qodot said:

@Hockeymask27 said:

The current is pulled to far back on this quicklook. Because I know Vinny knows the answers to his questions.

I feel the same. EVERYTHING I KNEW IS A LIE!

Do you mean curtain? Anyway the best part was the live stream with Dave .  

I loved IL-2 Sturmovik and 1946 both great games, haven't had a chance to play Cliffs of Dover but it does seem quite a bit arcadish. My favourites are IL-2 1946, Lock-On MAC, Lock-On 2, DCS Black Shark and DCS A-10C.

I saw it when they did it the first time live, it was a amazing and should be adapted into a full featured motion picture.

@Nihilius: It's no more arcadey than the previous games. It's just a matter of realism settings.

"Let's see if we can find our... WOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHH!"
 
Love these kind of quicklooks.

@Scooper said:

Worthing and Shoreham! I live near there!

This is almost certainly the only quick look Giant Bomb will ever do that features Chichester (where I am typing this from). Therefore it is awesome.

I love Eric Johnson!

Bognor Regis! I've a gig there this Monday

The take-off(and landing!) they did on Thursday night was one of the best giantbomb things I've watched. I would love to get into this game. 

That was more inspiring than October Sky. I give this Quick Look five stars.

Huh, I remember the console version looking a lot better than this.

Favorite Quick Look in awhile. Always love the PC ones.

That flip-over landing has to be the single funniest and greatest landing in any video game quick look ever!

Also: "Maybe we can just drive there!"

The "IL" in IL-2 stands for Ilyushin, the name of the Russian plane manufacturer.

Oleg Maddox has left 1C since the original release of this game in Europe in early spring. IL-2 1946 remains the best ww2 flight simulator.

I thought Dave had all the simulation games.

lol at trying to land!

That landing was a "9.5" on the Launchpad McQuack scale.

"Maybe you just drive there, you're on the road now"

Hahahaha

Vinny and Drew are a great QL duo.

Heizung = heating 
 
greetings from germany

It was great seeing this on the live stream.

Remember games? This is what they were all about. Wonderful quick look, makes me want to dig up my old DOS flight sims again.

"I'M FLYING MOTHAFUCKA!" 
 
Great QL on a game that was supposed to succeed 1946 but couldn't.

Illest Sturmovik. nice curly mustache joke.

best quicklook in a while!

Really funny quick look, very entertaining. 
 
Haven't ever played IL-2 before, but I've heard many good things about it. Seeing it, though, is honestly a tad disappointing. Funny in the hands of Vinny and Drew, but the game itself looks pretty old. The amount of "simness" in this flight sim is cool, but honestly after playing Digital Combat Simulator: A-10C Warthog, the simulation in this game doesn't seem all that impressive... Drew/Dave/Vinny would honestly have to spend something like 2-3 days playing and practicing just to memorize the startup procedures, not to mention the communications and weapons systems! I would not suggest a quick look of that... but I would suggest trying it out if you are looking for some sim-ass simmy sim.

Surprising 1C only improved the plane and ground models for this one and didn't even give a damn about the sound (The engine sounds are the same as the Il-2 demo that came out in 2001) and they kept the same old clouds from 1946. 
 
Again, great QL, and Vinny trying to bail out fifty feet off the ground was goddamn hilarious. 

Games like these are so fascinating to me.

I loved when they were trying to land and both Vinny and Drew were like "yep... yep... yeah, you got it... yep.... yes... there.. yep...." even as they were upside with one wing.