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86% Metacritic Developer(s) 1C:Maddox Games Series IL-2 Sturmovik Genre Combat flight simulator | 9/10 Steam 4.7/5 GOG Initial release date 8 December 2006 Publisher Ubisoft Platform Microsoft Windows | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (also called IL-2: 1946) is a 2006 compilation release of the Combat flight simulation game IL-2 Sturmovik. Created by a Russian games developer 1C:Maddox Games and published by Ubisoft. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 takes place during World War II. Although technically an expansion of IL-2 Sturmovik, it comes with all of the updates and expansions of the base game before it, up to version 4.07. The License has now expired for IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946.
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Current expansion & development
Team Daidalos have been developers for IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 expansions since the closure of All Aircraft Arcade. The expansions created add new World War II aircraft, prototype aircraft, post-war aircraft, new maps and new campaigns. Team Daidalos continue to develop IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946.
There are various modding teams & individuals who continue to further the development of IL-2 Sturmovik 1946. Much of this work produced is added to the Team Daidalos IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 official expansions.
Early development
All Aircraft Arcade or also known as AAA was the primary Website & Forum for IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 modding & development until its closure in 2010. The original All Aircraft Arcade website (allaircraftarcade.com) is now closed. Snapshots for the closed website can be found at https://archive.org/web/ the last being April 7, 2010.
Reception
The game was met with positive reception upon release. Review aggregator Metacritic gave IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 a score of 86 out of 100, while another review aggregator, GameRankings, gave it 85.38%.
