IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Join the Royal Air Force, face off against the deadly German Luftwaffe and the Italian air forces and battle for Britain!

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is a simulation, flight and world war ii game developed by 1C: Maddox Games and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
Released on July 19th 2011 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Czech.

It has received 1,002 reviews of which 668 were positive and 334 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.5 out of 10. 😐

The game is not available on Steam.

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows® 7 / Vista SP2 / Windows XP SP3
Processor: Pentium® Dual-Core 2.0GHz or Athlon™ X2 3800+
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: DirectX® 9.0c compliant, 512MB Video Card (See supported List*)
DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c
Hard Drive: 10GB
Sound: DirectX® 9.0c compatible
Peripherals: Mouse, keyboard
Multiplay: Broadband connection with 128 kbps upstream or faster

*SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS AT TIME OF RELEASE:

ATI®: 5830/5850/5770/5870/6870/6950/6970

NVidia®: 250/260/275/285/460/465/470/480

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2017

Fun game 10/10 However there issues that everyone should know about. If you are a windows 8, 8.1, 10 user. You will not and i repeat will not be able to run this game after purchasing it. I will leave a link in my review for the patch if you are interested in getting the game. Also this game isn't like WarThunder you need to get a Joy Stick because there is no mouse joy aka mouse flight. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>patch below<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< http://teamfusion.theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/ Installation of TF patches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewfAma7GJA Grab mod 4.0 or install all the patches. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- overall thoughts this game is fun from a simulator perspective yes in the new series they added tanks officially even in the older game as well. The flight models as well as damage models are very well put together and i have to say with and without multiplayer this game is fun. even the older series has people still playing it and even bigger youtubers. I am glad this game is getting attention even from this post i wrote a few years ago and it hit me i never truly made a actual review all i did was like here is how you play this game on newer OS. anyways it worth buying yes and yes it also worth getting the DLC even i havent gotten it yet but i will one day.

April 2017

The game now comes with the Team Fusion mods built-in, direct from Steam. So--no more downloading and installing a whole parade of mods just to get the game to work. Instead, it works right out of the box. So, if you've been thinking about trying CloD, now's the time. It's one of the best flight sims ever, has a large and active online multiplayer community, and the price is right. Give it a try.

Nov. 2015

A very good simulation of the Battle of Britain with everything that fought in it. There are a few bugs, but the ATAG patches are the absolute best solution to them as the game simply becomes awesome when the patch is installed. Overall, the game deserves more than its "Mixed" review average...

Oct. 2014

As a commercial airline captain and a former USAF "Hog Driver" (A-10 pilot) I have to say "IL-2 Cliffs of Dover" has kept me occupied on many nights off. The aerodynamics of each aircraft get about as close to accurate as a flight sim. can get. My only issue with this sim. is that you're limited to France and England, I wish there was more map.

Oct. 2014

Cliffs of Dover is an excellent World War 2 flight simulator, recreating what it is like to be a British or German combat pilot during the Summer of 1940. HOWEVER, it is excellent only if you use the Team Fusion patch. Let me make that clear. Cliffs of Dover should have been an excellent product from the first. Its vision and the designed scope of improvement over other WW2 flight sims was, and still is, truly next generation. However, the sim was a commercial flop - for a variety of reasons. More than anything, the effect its release had on the flight simming community was to generate at first epic anger, and later, epic sighs of disapointment. We all had high hopes, but they were decisively dashed after the initial boot-up of what has become known as IL-2 CloD. Frame rates when the sim was first released were slide-show poor, stability was enough to make Job tear his hair, and menu navigation was inexplicably difficult. These and a myriad of other major issues kept anyone from feeling they got their money's worth. Most who had purchased Cliffs of Dover, eagerly expecting the best WW2 sim experience possible, quickly shelved it after vigorously (and justly) lambasting the developers online. The issues with which this product first shipped are unacceptable for any entertainment product if it is going to succeed. And, therefore due to the quality, or lack of it, succeed IL-2 Cliffs of Dover did not. The vision was there, the scope was there, the basics were there - but the execution left all the positives absolutely irrelevant. Now fast forward in time to the present. Over the years since release, a series of patches from the developers have addressed many issues in the software, partly to silence their critics, but also in an effort to salvage their reputation for further software development. The most recent developer's patch, however, came with a statement: No More Work Will Be Done. Although the official patches fixed many issues, serious flaws still remained unaddressed. Seeing that CloD had been abandoned by the developers, a small group of historically-minded flight sim enthusiasts took it upon themselves to fix the glitches that remain, adding content as well as restored functionality. The result has been, literally, a game-changer. Frame rates are at 60FPS on modern machines, flight modeling is impressive, software stability is great, and the single player campaigns have even been re-written. Multiplayer is fantastic. 50 to 100 human pilots routinely fly together, in one server, over the English channel and French and English countrysides, re-enacting the dramatic days before, during, and after the Battle of Britain. You can find your aerial combat fix nearly any day or night on the ATAG (TF) multiplayer server. Team Fusion continues to poll the community for needed changes, and to add more content and bugfixes regularly. Their forum, and their patches, can be found at: http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=91 I highly recommend IL-2 CloD if you are a serious WW2 flight sim enthusiast. To date, it has the highest degree of period engine and flight modelling that a complete WW2 flight simulation product has delivered. You will feel as if you are piloting a piston-powered, 1200 horsepower, state of the art (for 1940) aircraft into realistic and deadly combat using nothing but a compass, high-power guns, crosshairs gunsight, and your wits. It is not an easy sim. It is a realistic one. If that is what you want, you have found it. Just make sure you use the TF additions. -Venturi

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