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Ubi Soft Entertainment, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced features of IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, its forthcoming expansion pack for use with the multi-award winning IL-2 Sturmovik World War II combat flight simulation. The expansion pack will add 30 new missions, 27 additional flyable aircraft and a new dynamic campaign system offering almost limitless replayability. IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles is expected to ship to North American retail shelves this winter, with an MSRP of $19.99.

"The IL-2 community is anxiously awaiting the release of IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles and we know they'll agree that it is well worth the wait for an official expansion pack to continue the IL-2 experience," said Matt Wagner, producer at Ubi Soft Entertainment. "Full of highly-detailed aircraft and action-packed missions, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles continues Ubi Soft's tradition of delivering only the best in ultra-realistic combat simulation titles."

About IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles: IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles is the first expansion pack for the hugely popular, multi-award winning IL-2 Sturmovik World War II combat flight simulation. The expansion pack is being created by the original IL-2 Sturmovik's developer, 1C Maddox Games, assuring the high level of quality, detail and realism that flight simulation enthusiasts demand. It includes three new maps for both single and multiplayer play, including the Finnish gulf from Helsinki to Leningrad, the Balaton Lake area of Hungary, and L'vov covering the Ukraine and Poland. With 20 new single player missions and 10 new cooperative multiplayer missions, and a new dynamic campaign system, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles expands the aerial battlefield for IL-2 owners, adding almost limitless replayability. The expansion pack also adds 27 new flyable, and 12 new AI controlled aircraft to faithfully recreate the WWII aerial combat experience.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles also features:
- New AI ground objects and vehicles for each new map area, with new 3D building models
- Ranking and award system for Finnish and Hungarian pilots
- Selectable custom skins in single play mode for players and all AI aircraft
- All IL-2: FB aircraft available in Quick Mission Builder, except seaplanes and gliders
- Improved flight dynamics
- More realistic AI scripting to create more realistic battles
- New engine management relating to radiators, superchargers and fuel mixture control for different altitudes
- Online track recorder
- A New system of single play track recording
- Search lights and barrage balloons
- 4 new large ships including the Russian battleship Marat, Russian cruisers Aurora and Kirov and German cruiser Niobe
- 27 New flyable aircraft:
- Ju-87D-3 (German "Stuka")
- Ju-87G-1
- Bf-109G-14
- Bf-109G-10
- Bf-109K-4
- FW-190D-9
- He-111H-2 (multi-crewed flyable bomber)
- He-111H-6 (multi-crewed flyable bomber)
- Me-262A-1a
- Me-262A-2a
- Brewster Buffalo F2A (Finnish Air Force)
- Hurricane Mk I (Finnish Air Force)
- La-5
- La-5F
- La-7 (2x20mm ShVAK cannons)
- La-7 (3x20mm B-20 cannons)
- I-153 M-62
- I-153P
- Hurricane Mk IIB
- Hurricane Mk IIC
- Hurricane Mk II (with Russian cannons and machineguns)
- P-47D-10 (American "Thunderbolt")
- P-47D-22
- P-40E
- P-40M
- P-40 (Russian Field Mode with Soviet M-105P engine)
- TB-3 (multi-crewed flyable bomber)
- 12 New AI aircraft:
- Bristol Blenheim MK I (Finnish Air Force)
- Bristol Blenheim MK IV (Finnish Air Force)
- Fiat G-50 (Finnish Air Force)
- Morane MS.406 (Finnish Air Force)
- Morane MS.410 (Finnish Air Force)
- Mörkö Morane (Finnish Air Force)
- IL-4
- SB-2
- Bf-110C
- Bf-110G
- Me-210Ca-1 (Hungarian Air Force)
- Me-210Ca-1 Zerstörer (Hungarian Air Force)