The P-51 is a challenging aircraft to learn and an even tougher bird to fly and fight with. There's no backstory or righteous war to wage here, the "campaign" is just 25 unconnected sorties where you and your intricately modeled Mustang get to know each other on increasingly intimate terms. When you do finally get to shoot something - eleven missions in - it's just glorified gunnery practice against assorted ground and air targets (most don't even shoot back). The central single-player campaign doesn't even to try and address this deficiency as you progress through a series of engine startup, take-off, landing, and flight tests designed to improve your proficiency with this ultra-realistic warbird. With no proper enemies like Messerschmitt Bf 109s or Focke-Wulf Fw 190s to dogfight, the only reasonable air-to-air action you'll see is against other P-51s. Once installed, you can fly and fight over the same Crimean Peninsula terrain that backdrops all of Eagle Dynamics' simulations, which means fighting modern Russian attack helicopters and air defenses in your WWII prop plane. It's neither a game nor a fully realized combat-flight sim, but rather a $40 "module" that attaches to Eagle Dynamics' free-to-download DCS World frame. It's neither a game nor a fully realized combat-flight sim, but rather a $40 "module." Gamers, on the other hand, will struggle with it… and for good reason.
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