IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is based around large-scale aerial combat over the ground-based military operations of World War II. Players participate in the war's most famous confrontations piloting fighters, battle planes or heavy bombers across a range of thrilling missions. There are five seats of war to engage in The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.