A new mod from the creator of IL2-Mat Manager, Aces High 2, takes immersion to a new level for fans of the Battle of Britain era.Immersion: a state of being deeply engaged or involved. In the flight sim world, it means a game with the ability to suspend disbelief, and allow the player to see, think and feel as though they are behind the stick of Bf109 E4 over the Channel on June 1940.
The wind whistles over the airframe, the engine throbs, nearby flak bursts so loud you can feel it in your chest, the joystick jumps as a line of cannon shells stitches its way across your wing, your heart beats harder and your palms sweat as you twist and turn avoiding the fighter on your six. The landscape whizzing by looks photographic whether seen from altitude or treetop level. That's one kind of immersion.
The other kind of immersion comes from the feeling of being there 'in time'. Is there a feeling of period? Could you believe you were in a 1940s world? Is the language appropriate, the interface, the historical accuracy? It's the immersion that comes from wanting to be able to, say, sit in the cockpit of Squadron Leader James Leatheart's Spitfire on 6 June 1940 at Rochford, and know it is represented in the right skin, at the right airfield, and being able to look out your cockpit at the famous P9398 KL-B numbered Spitfire with the Kiwi emblem, being flown by Alan Deere. That is 'period immersion.'
For the first time, there is a flight sim which not only models the correct markings and skins of every single Bf109, Spitfire and Hurricane which flew in the Battle of Britain, but now also the many hundreds of Luftwaffe bombers with their colourful spinners and emblems...
Read more!
http://www.freewebs.com/heinkill/
Calendar
Downloads
FAQ
Library
Multiplayer
News
Release Dates
SimHQ TV
Previous Topic
Index