IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II. Players can participate in some of the war’s most famous battles piloting fighters…

77 4 September 2009

What IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is a shooter game developed by DiP Interactive and released in 2009. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, or Wings of Prey on Windows, is a 2009 combat flight simulation video game. As in previous installments in the IL-2 Sturmovik series, it depicts combat aircraft from World War II, although with less focus on realistic simulation than other entries in the series. The game has a campaign mode in which players are able to fly the Allies against the Axis, and also a multiplayer mode in which they are able to select either faction.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey launched on 4 September 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version and Halo 3: ODST. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version, Halo 3: ODST.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer