Whats a good airplane dogfight game?
For simulation, the best is IL-2 Sturmovik (also IL-2: 1946, IL-2 Forgotten battles, IL-2 Wings of Prey). Nothing else is close. There’s some combat in Microsoft Flight Sim X, but it’s not near as good. There are way more arcade titles than simulation titles. Some people think some of them are realistic when they’re not. Including: Heroes over Europe (and over the Pacific, etc) Ace Combat series Lock-On (sim elements but still mostly arcade) Blazing Angels HAWX goes in its own special category of pure arcade, it’s so putridly bad. There isn’t one shred of real life in the flight model, or the armament levels (they carry well over 100 all-purpose missiles on every plane). Even worse, there’s an extra fast-turn mode (kind of like combat flaps, I guess) but you can only use it in 3rd person, and it gives your plane a sustained-turn rate of about 4 seconds. Ubisoft has never made a realistic air combat game. They’re not in that business. For a sim with genuine attention to detail, try the
