Flight Simulators (Simulations)

USA Extreme Landscapes for FS2004 - FS2002

4 stars (Must have this if you use MS flight sim) - If you have an extra 2.5 gigs of memory on your machine, and use MS Flight Sim seriously, get this. It adds a extra level of landscape detail that is very enjoyable. I'm getting my privot pilot's license now and regularly re-fly my actual lessons with the SIM. This landscape CD makes my local area much more recognizable. I'm running a 1.5 GH processor, and it still works fine with the extra terain data. ...
Abacus :: Air :: Flying :: Flightsimulator flightsim :: Flight Simulators (Simulations) :: Computer Games :: :: USA Extreme Landscapes for FS2004 - FS2002

IL2- Forgotten Battles Gold Pack

5 stars (Great and well worth it!) - If your going to buy a combat flight sim buy this. Replay, graphics, gameplay, everything is surpurb to anything Microsoft puts out there except FS2004 which is not a combat flight sim. .........and when you purchase this great bundle buy Combat over Europe and Pacific Fighters to go along with it. Endless gameplay and missions and if you still get bored you can download user-made missions for this game on NetWings.com! Never gets boring or old! Overall, it doesn't get any better than this when it comes to WWII combat flight sim's! Take my word for it! 5 stars (Truly Awesome) - Forgotten Battles (FB) is truly awesome with its amazingly realistic graphics. The detail to aircraft (including cockpit interior)will delight the WWII buff and the sunlight effects are stunning and realistic. You can zoom in and out, and have internal and external views. You will however, need to ensure your computer and graphics card can handle the requirements of the game. The flight model can be adjusted to suit ones own individual skill or pleasure levels. Pilot career campaigns can be created from a whole range aircraft including Stuka, Heinkel 111, ME109, IL2, I16, MIGs etc, although these aircraft could be upgraded during the pilots career. Once you start to amass a tally, the game has you going back for more to increase your tally. Many variety of aircraft can be encountered, including Gladiators, P40 Kittyhawks, P39 Airacobras, JU88s etc. In the midst of combat on bomber aircraft you can take up the postion of gunners and attempt to shoot down marauding fighters. My only gripe is that there is no strategic element to the game and there is no way you can influence the outcome of the war, but then again the air war on the Eastern Front was almost entirely a tactical affair. Perhaps the creators of the game will have a strategic element in the proposed Battle of Britain game. The FB game includes a Quick Mission builder and a Full Mission Buil...
UBI Soft :: Strategy (Strategic) :: Air :: Flying :: Flightsimulator flightsim :: Flight Simulators (Simulations) :: Military (Tactics) :: Shooters (Shooter) :: Action :: Compute :: IL2- Forgotten Battles Gold Pack

Wings Over Vietnam

4 stars (Better than expected and personable!!!) - I am a big WWII air combat fan playing such games as IL2 Forgotten Battles, Pacific Fighters ect..... which I still think is the best WWII flight combat sims to date and until (Battle of Britain 2 Wings of Victory) when it comes out if it ever does, will most likely change that! That said, I am not much into jet era combat. Why? It is very impersonable.........modern air combat is boring to me! You have advanced technology so you can detect your enemy before you even see him visually and lanch a heat seeking missle at him miles away to blow him out of the sky. Keep in mind, I have played Lock-On, Falcon 4.0 Allied Force which to me are boring and dull jet era flight sims. Sure you have the best jet sims out there on the market but what fun is a dog fight when you can't see your enemy? We'll my friends the Vietnam era was still as personable as WWII was. The heat seeking missles and rader technology was in it's infency and that meant you still had to interact visually with the enemy not lanch a missle to hit a target on the ground or in the sky miles out of your visual range! It was the last era for this type of "old fashion" combat so I picked up the sim and gave her a try! I first hated it I admit because of the learning curve (there is a learning curve depite what another reviewer stated) so naturally I had to be very patient which is not my forte! I even uninstalled WOV for a half a year (I have had this game from the first release date!) and just recently gave her another try. Now that I have more experance with other flight sims like IL2 series and Lock-On I eased into the curve and now have became more of an adverage player than just a impatient newbe! Graphics are not that great as some of the other newer flight sims out there except for the plane detail which is what counts overall, but that's not why I play this game for anyway. So, listen to the other reviewers and give this game a try if you are a hist...
Bold Games :: World Building (Builders) :: Simulations :: Strategy (Strategic) :: Air :: Flying :: Flightsimulator flightsim :: Flight Simulators (Simulations) :: Military (Tacti :: Wings Over Vietnam

X-Plane 8 0 DVD-ROM

1 stars (X-PLANE) - Wow what a disappointment. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! If want a game that is not realistic this is the game for you. Every aspect of this game is no where near what happens in the real world. I'm not saying that any other simulator will be 100% realistic, but Flight Simulator is the closest thing. Like I said it is not like real life, but it is 98% acurate. The only 2% that's not realistic is that you can't feel the G-forces. If you wnat to waste thirty dollars buy X-plane. If you want to learn how to fly in the most realistic experience go with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and/or 2004. 5 stars (Move over Microsoft, or should I say Microsoft who?) - (6/18/05) MS Flight Simulator, and most other consumer sims, use static quantitative flight models that essentially are a series of numerical quantities for each aircraft concerning thrust, turn rates at a give speed, lift, etc. X-plane is a revolutionary consumer flight sim that uses real aerodynamic fluid-like physics to "derive" a flight model in real time, by simplifying the forces into "blades" acting upon the aircraft...almost like having a wind tunnel in your computer. It uses the same concept of software that aerospace companies utilize for testing airframes and roughing-out control software prior to a prototype being built. In fact, I hear some smaller companies are now using it for that purpose rather than buying the previous software only available at high prices to major engineering firms. X-Plane is also approved for some aspects of early pilot training by the FAA. There is also an add on for the planet Mars available from the X-Plane website, as well as a Space Combat Simulator. The usual flight procedures are included in X-Plane. There's no lack of them there. Also, because of the nature of the derived flight models, an aircraft modeler is included. Yes, X-Plane is luring those strange people who make model airplanes in their basement. But the rest of us get to benefit. There ...
Graphsim Entertainment :: Air :: Flying :: Flightsimulator flightsim :: Flight Simulators (Simulations) :: Adventure :: Computer Games :: :: X-Plane 8 0 (DVD-ROM)

Falcon 4 0- Allied Force

Falcon 4.0: Allied Force...
Atari :: Air :: Flying :: Flightsimulator flightsim :: Flight Simulators (Simulations) :: Computer Games :: :: Falcon 4 0- Allied Force