20.09.2010, 17:44
Il-2 would be considered a hybrid, a simulator that has the features of a game. You place real world aircraft and objects, maybe even recreate a campaign exactly as it happened minute by minute, that's the sim part. But you get a scoring at the end of each mission, so that's the game part.
Every combat flight sim I know of has some scoring or otherwise. FSX is an example of a non-combat sim(at least Gold edition) where you get scored for say running the Reno Air Race course. And then if you do something wrong like overspeed or such the mission will end, no showing what happens, it just ends.
The only two I can think of that do not act like a game are Flightgear and X-Plane. Flightgear, when I flew it, does not do combat, and flies realistically. To see what happens when you crash, I found that the plane simply bounces.
X-Plane does not do any scoring, when you crash, it makes your plane inoperable, and systems can fail whenever you want. There is missile combat(no guns, bombs, etc for AI). It was never intended to be a game in the first place anyway, but a flight trainer. That's why the graphics are not the greatest in the world(version 9, 10 it changes)
YsFlight is all about combat flight. You get points added for killing enemy targets, or deducted for killing friendlies. Essentially the same as Il-2 but free and very poor graphics(unless you do some digging and get mods, which have way better planes)
Every combat flight sim I know of has some scoring or otherwise. FSX is an example of a non-combat sim(at least Gold edition) where you get scored for say running the Reno Air Race course. And then if you do something wrong like overspeed or such the mission will end, no showing what happens, it just ends.
The only two I can think of that do not act like a game are Flightgear and X-Plane. Flightgear, when I flew it, does not do combat, and flies realistically. To see what happens when you crash, I found that the plane simply bounces.
X-Plane does not do any scoring, when you crash, it makes your plane inoperable, and systems can fail whenever you want. There is missile combat(no guns, bombs, etc for AI). It was never intended to be a game in the first place anyway, but a flight trainer. That's why the graphics are not the greatest in the world(version 9, 10 it changes)
YsFlight is all about combat flight. You get points added for killing enemy targets, or deducted for killing friendlies. Essentially the same as Il-2 but free and very poor graphics(unless you do some digging and get mods, which have way better planes)