Oh dear... I had a very bad feeling about this. I was right.
Answer the following question.
Q. Do you already own Enemy Engaged 1 – the old original game? Modded and patched to perfection with TrackIR 6DOF (six degrees of freedom) and a practically bug-free experience?
If you answered yes, then you definitely do NOT want to buy this and do not need to read any further.
Still here? Ok, well to put this into perspective… the first version of Enemy Engaged: Comanche Hokum (EECH1) with all the fixes, patches and freeware community mods installed is today a far better game/combatflightsim in every respects than this new "version 2" release and I've been flying the original for years (w/ Apache Havoc installed). Now this "updated" version is released and BOOM! - several years of hard work and fixes all up in smoke and its back into original version 1 bug-infested, patch-free territory. Which is not nice.
I was especially disappointed about this though; While it says “TrackIR supported” on the box cover, which is technically true, legally I suppose for their lawyers to say on a technicality in court… it is simply basic old 2DOF and NOT full 6DOF that EECH1 has long had available w/ the free community mods! I was at least expecting it to include all the hard work of the modders and for it to be at least as good as what was currently available. But oh no... all their hard work was simply ignored as if it didn't exist! And that's REAL penny pinching, not wanting to pay the great modders like "Gotcha" a miserly sausage for all his hard work with the original code; All to the utter detriment of this final release.
I can only imagine that the publishers forced it to be released early just to make a few easy dollars off an unsuspecting public. I can’t imagine that any real developer would want to be associated with something as Beta… even Alpha stage as this.
To give an example; TrackIR support is actually broken and barely works (you are forced to exit and restart the game if it looses tracking just ONCE). Luckily, we came up with a workaround solution at SimHQ.com - it's simply a matter of copying over your old TrackIR.dll (from your modded EECH1) into your new EECH2 game folder.
But honestly, I finally gave up and uninstalled EECH2 and went back to the far superior modded, patched, stable, playable (and dare I say it FUN?) EECH1.
One final thing that didn't impress me... I still have my original EECH1 manual (a heavy tome hundreds of pages long) and the pdf manual included with this new incarnation simply copied most, if not all of it from that. The only real paperwork included here is a 10 page flimsy excuse of a proper manual/keyguide. I suppose the only interesting item of literature included is something entitled "Attackhelicopters.pdf"... but as it mentions in the prologue, most of the info included is directly quoted from "wikipedia" anyway (which isn't always 100% technically accurate - maybe JANES www.janes.com would've been a more appropriate source here perhaps eh cheapskates, DUH?!?!). So, I wouldn't say it's really worth buying the game just for this tiny adobe pdf file alone that's available on wikipedia anyway...
I suppose really it was only to be expected that Enemy Engaged 2 is nothing more than a money making rip-off of old (albeit excellent) original code dressed up to look good in screenshots... and nothing more.
If you're still determined in getting this rip-off bug-fest to work properly, and want to persevere with it in masochistic frustration (or you simply can’t find an old copy of the superior EECH1 anywhere with its nice huge manual – eBay maybe?) read the SimHQ info here (including the TrackIR fix): http://www.simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=99&page=1
Don’t forget to check your six, rotorhead! Cheers :P