A facsimile copy of a British Spitfire aircraft manual of 1940.A spiral-bound booklet manual for the player.The collector's edition was a boxed set that contained the very same standard DVD for installation of the game, but presented too a few additional features: It was distributed to specialised retail shops, chain stores, and online authorised sellers.Ī special edition called Collector's Edition was also distributed and sold as of the same date. One unboxed copy of the collector's edition of the game.Īt release, on 25 March 2011, the game was distributed in a usual format at the time, an installation DVD that was contained in a standard keep case. This makes IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover the second generation in the IL-2 Sturmovik series of air combat simulators.ĭistribution at release and collector's edition That latter, the third generation in the IL-2 series, is being developed by 1C Company and 777 Studios, which is the developer of the WWI flight simulator Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War. Cliffs of Dover was planned to be supplemented by a new theater, Moscow, but 1C chose not to continue development with the game engine, instead incorporating a similar, Russian, theatre into the next title in the series with a new game engine, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad. In October 2012, it was revealed on the 1C forums that development had fallen short of the original goals and that 1C:Maddox Games was unwilling to continue supporting the title.
Nevertheless, the Su-26 was finally included as a free downloadable content with the adjunction of the Steam patch 2 on 19 October 2012. When IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover was still under development, the aerobatic Sukhoi Su-26 (not a WWII era plane) had been promised as a bonus flyable aircraft for all players, but was not included in the game upon release. In January 2011 Ubisoft revealed the current name for the game and release date of 25 March 2011.
It was originally developed by the Russian software house 1C:Maddox Games but since 2012 it is under development by Team Fusion Simulations. IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is a World War II combat flight simulator released in 2011.