Unlike early PC titles where a game was released and nothing came after, most games these days see their titles develop over time. Reviewing any flight sim these days is like hitting a moving target. Even on High graphics settings this Yak-7B looks beautiful set against a moody sky. GPUs can be expensive these days but worth it if you want relatively stutter free gameplay with top level visuals. But don’t expect all the extras.įor best results I would up the hardware required to a modern Core i5 or i7 processor or equivalent high end AMD Ryzen, 16GB of RAM, and a GPU with 6GB or 8GB of RAM. That said, all of my screenshots posted here were taken at High and the game still looks great so you can still have a good experience on lower end hardware. My system has has GTX 960 with 2GB of VRAM and its just not enough to run at Ultra levels of detail anymore. These days I would suggest having 8GB of RAM at least and having a video card with more than the 2GB of VRAM they suggest.
Read the full review for an in-depth breakdown of the features and content or skip to the conclusion at the end for a short summary. Battle of Kuban represents a huge step forward for the series in several dramatic ways. Now, with the official release of IL-2: Battle of Kuban, the series takes a leap forward. The follow on, IL-2: Battle of Moscow, released in May of 2016, added a lot of content and refined some features but needed to do more to really help the series fly. The series had a great feel to it but it needed more content and more development. When Battle of Stalingrad was released I gave it good marks and suggested that it held enormous potential, but it just wasn’t there yet. In the fall of 2014, 1C Game Studios revitalized the IL-2 series with the release of IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad. Has the third generation of IL-2 now met or surpassed its predecessor? Find out in my review! A brief history of the series The title release includes a year and a half worth of development on new content and game features that has added to the value of the entire IL-2 series. 1C Game Studios officially released IL-2: Battle of Kuban to the public in March of 2018.