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Stormovik: SU-25 Soviet Attack Fighter

DOS - 1990

Year 1990
Platform DOS
Released in United States
Genre Simulation
Theme Flight
Publisher Electronic Arts, Inc.
Developer Electronic Arts, Inc.
Perspective 1st-Person
4.3 / 5 - 20 votes

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Every once in a while, some designers seem to have the gut to do something different. Exceptional technical achievements aside (Falcon series and Flanker come to mind), in the flight sim world this either translates into the modelling of some "unsexy", "unglamorous" or simply "little known" aircraft, simulation of an obscure war or combining other "non-sim" elements into a flight sim.

Su-25 Stormovik (or Sturmovik in correct Russian spelling) is one sim that tries to simulate a little known attack fighter, the Su-25 in a uniquely Russian perspective during the troublesome early '90's era. The Su-25 (NATO callsign Frogfoot) is the closest Russian equivalent to the American tank busting A-10 Thunderbolt II. It is also interesting that its shape closely resembles the YA-9, the losing competitor to the YA-10 (eventually developing into the A-10) in the USAF competition for a new attack aircraft. Thickly clad in armour and fearsomely armed, this aircraft has proved its mettle in many combat theaters, most recently in Chechnya.

This sim from Electronic Arts casts you as a Russian pilot during the early 90's, flying missions that will slowly uncover the hideous plot in the Russian government. Being an attack aircraft, your missions are mostly ground pounding and recon and are quite interesting. The flight model is quite convincing for its time. Perhaps, not in the Falcon 3.0 standard, but definitely better than average.

However, the control scheme is a bit questionable. Flying with keyboard or mouse is very difficult because the game follows a rather different control scheme than usual. Playing using a joystick is the way to go here, although many feel that it's a bit too responsive to the joystick input. The graphics closely resembles Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, which is to say that it is fairly good, although poor by today's standards.

Overall, this is a good sim to play while waiting for the next Su-25 sim that will (hopefully) be included in the next installments of Su-27 Flanker series from SSI (Flanker 2.5? Flanker Attack?). Note though, that if you have anything better than a Pentium, you have to use Moslo to play this game. Otherwise, you won't be able to takeoff!

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JoeDapper 2022-09-02 1 point

I had this in the day. Played it and the F16 game that wasnt falcon - religiously.

Picard 2022-05-14 0 point

In the 90's I enjoyed it's siblings: LHX and Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.
Somehow, I didn't play Stormovik back then. Perhaps because it hat a reputation for an nasty, over-sensitive steering.

Now I tried it with DOS-Box. The game has really a special charme! :-)
But I'm absolutely unable to control the plane in air: No matter if I chose "keyboard", "joystick", "mouse" or "hi-res mouse" ... it's impossible to steer precisely!

Does anyone have some hints?

Hammer_tool 2022-03-16 2 points

One of the first games I purchased I will have the box and 5.25" disks as I cant bring myself to throw it out.

Dreadhead 2021-05-12 1 point

I loved this game! Between it and Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, EA's flight sims ruled the day back in the 1990s! Great gameplay!

f00l 2020-09-01 3 points

The first game that I bought in a shop... I spent NIGHTS playing this little jewel.

anrymarchen 2020-04-20 2 points

Hey, classic champion, you can't takeoff because it requires special DosBox settings. Try core=normal, if it wont help, you may also try cycles=fixed, several cpu types

Classic Champion 2019-05-08 1 point

Need some help. On takeoff I can't seem to be able to get my SU-25 off the ground. I've tried everything. I've even switched back and forth between control
configurations and it still doesn't lift off at all. All it does is just accelerate down the runway.

stalin 2016-10-10 2 points

is better then stoopid american flight simulators. GLORY TO MOTHER RUSSIA!

Peter 2016-06-06 3 points

"CLP920", the USSR actually did still exist in 1991. Just thought you should know that.

Anyway, yes, this game was one of the better aircraft simulators to come out back then (you know, when the USSR was alive and well).

clp920 2016-03-07 -4 points

Newspaper "Правда" on March 1991 gives me reason to thought that developers don't know that USSR ceased to exist at the time!

twi$$ter33 2015-02-10 3 points DOS version

Played this almost daily for a couple years back in the day!

bob 2014-07-11 0 point DOS version

Wow I can't believe I never knew this game existed, I played every flight sim I could find back then. A coworker mentioned it to me and I was like whaaaat?

Skoll 2009-08-27 0 point DOS version

Wow, another great flight sim from back in the day. I used to love trying to drop bombs on those pesky helicopters trying to tail me. Man, I didn't realize I played so many flight sims back when I was a kid.

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