The Hurricane Mk.II series which consisted of the a, b, c and d variants was outfitted with several different armament configurations. Hurricanes also saw action at Stalingrad, Moscow, Leningrad, Murmansk and many other battles over the vast Russian steppe. The Hurricane Mk.II saw action over the sands of North Africa, the ports of Malta, the jungles of the Far East and protected convoys in the Atlantic.

The Hurricane was built in large numbers and the Mk.II series was sent to all corners of the war to fly and fight, including the Eastern Front where the Soviet VVS put them to good use in several sectors. Unlike popular belief, it was the sturdy and more numerous Hurricane and not the sexier Spitfire that really made the difference. Sturmovik will be the most hardcore game on the the latest consoles, and the toughest gamer’s game you’ll ever play.The legendary British-built Hurricane came to fame during the Battle of Britain where it did the heavy lifting for the RAF in that pivotal battle. The Eastern European gamer man enough to cobble together a PC capable of running the game is the kind of player who doesn’t need things dumbed down, and 1C are showing the same faith in console gamers here. Already the greatest combat flight sim on the PC, IL-2 is a game made by Russians for the hardest of the hardcore. There’s an easy Arcade setting if Ace Combat is your thing, but with assists off it’s the same PC simulation where every aspect of the plane’s handling falls under your thumb and every wrong turn can end in a stall and a hundred mile an hour trip into the side of a mountain. The big surprise is that 1C are daring to bring it to consoles almost unchanged. Sturmovik is a game already tested and polished over half a decade by thousands of PC gamers around the world.

Sturmovik is a simulation, and it is perfect.

Every plane is an inch-by-inch recreation of the real thing inside and out, and the damage system so accurate, a single bullet in the right place on the right plane could puncture your fuel tank and blow you out of the sky an inch or two to the right or left and it might have no effect at all.

IL-2 knows where planes keep their engines, their fuel, their pilots and their ammunition, and can register unique hits on all of them. This isn’t Ace Combat or HAWX, where your plane’s energy bar is gradually reduced to nought by enemy fire. The planes in Sturmovik fly in the game because they’re built to fly in real life so sophisticated is the physics model Russian developers 1C have designed.

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