Wings Of Prey (PC) >>

[calius]

Wings Of Prey, PC spin off of Birds Of Prey from Console using IL2 engine features and superb visuals & sound.

Heres the official website

Heres the forums

Grab the Demo

Its only on steam or downloadable via Yuplays own site (visa credit card only ) so far, so i haven't got it yet, its beta WIP and still being patched frequently.

I found this guy whos an IL2 fan in the forums who made some demo youtube's which are the best example ive seen to explain it.

Part 1 - GUI Exploration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHNjCq3SuDM

Part 2 - Basic flight dynamics and enviroment

Part 3 - Dogfight mechanics and conclusion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQ0LodtzTM

The same chap also had a comparison to IL2 post and video:

Before I got it working, I knew there were differences in the behavior of the planes between WoP and IL-2, but I couldn't quite place it on memory alone. So, I decided to take a plane common between the two games, make a video of the same maneuvers in each, and splice them together so I could watch it myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuXvo4DSmg

As it turns out, alot of the differences are via a heap of small things in IL-2 that add up to a feel of more complex experience and believable control over the aircraft. This was just a very simple comparison.

* Max speed at full throttle and level flight below 500ft altitude

* Turn radius before start of blackout effect

* Turn stall speed with one wing below the other

* Possibility of stall recover if below 500 ft altitude

* Vertical climb rate at full throttle and max speed from approximately 200ft altitude

* Max altitude of climb

* Lowest speed at pinnacle of climb

I have the demo which you can get, and in simulation mode it resembled IL2 very well and especially the options, some real anal things IL2 folk will miss but for the visuals its great, the arcade features you can switch off entirely.

Performance wise, it runs on dual cores under 3gig and 8800gts etc fluently