The original Battle of Stalingrad module resulted in 2013 of a combined effort of 1C Company, the publisher of IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, and 777 Studios, developers of Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War who reused the 2009 Rise of Flight 'Digital Nature' game engine in order to develop the Battle of Stalingrad game.

The second generation was released in 2011 under the title IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover.Īll three generations, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, and IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles, are still in use and supported by the current owner of the IL-2 Sturmovik label, Russian company 1C Company.īefore the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles brand was coined in 2017, two ' IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of' modules were released: IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad in 2013 and IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow in 2016.

That latter is in the present day officially titled IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 as this was the title of its 'Complete Edition' back in 2006, the final compilation of add-ons in the first generation of IL-2 games. The original brand was created in 2001 with the first IL-2 Sturmovik air combat simulator. In 2019, the first World War I and tank modules in the entire IL-2 Sturmovik series were released ( IL-2 Sturmovik: Flying Circus and IL-2 Sturmovik: Tank Crew, respectively ). The two first modules were released in 2013 ( IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad) and 2016 ( IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow) and it was not before November 2017 that the series officially received its current name. IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles is a set of standalone video games and the third generation game in the IL-2 Sturmovik series of combat flight simulators. 2013 video game IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles

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