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DCS: Black Shark

DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark is a PC game of the Russian Ka-50 attack helicopter and is the first title in a new Eagle Dynamics and The Fighter Collection simulation series: Digital Combat Simulator (DCS). Following…

80 17 October 2008

DCS: Black Shark is a simulator developed by Eagle Dynamics, released 17 October 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What DCS: Black Shark is

DCS: Black Shark is a simulator game developed by Eagle Dynamics and released in 2008. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark is a PC game of the Russian Ka-50 attack helicopter and is the first title in a new Eagle Dynamics and The Fighter Collection simulation series: Digital Combat Simulator (DCS). Following Eagle Dynamics tradition of excellence, DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark will bring an even more realistic simulation experience than its predecessor LockOn: Flaming Cliffs.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

DCS: Black Shark holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

DCS: Black Shark launched on 17 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and Gears of War 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, Gears of War 2.

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When did DCS: Black Shark come out?
DCS: Black Shark was released on 17 October 2008 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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