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[Blood-Pigggy]

This game just looks plain awesome, the graphics are incredible. Not only that, but it's going to be the first Flight Simulator game where you can fly ALL around the world. You can make a stop in Paris to refuel, then fly over to Germany and such, the terrain, like mountains and rivers are all accurately modeled from satellite imaging, and so are the cities. That means you can fly over Cape Town for example, and see that same little road you walked down around Table Mountain.

It's totally nuts, the loading is seamless (kinda like San Andreas) so it loads as you go, you can't really notice it.
Looks like it's going to be an amazing step in the right direction.

http://www.flightsim...s06/fsx0104.htm

[wood]

Wow.  I've always had a soft spot for the MS Flight Sim games.  A flight school from whom I used to rent a plane used it in an immersive sim cockpit with cessna 152 controls to teach basic airmanship.  It'll never replace a real plane for seat of your pants flying.  However, as a training aid--especially for instrument training, it's pretty damn close.

The likelihood I'll ever fly from the left seat of a Lear 45 is pretty low, so it's nice to be able to hop into one virtually, pick an airport, push the thottles forward and climb at best speed to FL20 without having to worry about the fuel bill I'm incurring.


Good times.

[RyGuy]

Blood-Pigggy, on Sep 4 2006, 07:48 PM, said:

This game just looks plain awesome, the graphics are incredible. Not only that, but it's going to be the first Flight Simulator game where you can fly ALL around the world. You can make a stop in Paris to refuel, then fly over to Germany and such, the terrain, like mountains and rivers are all accurately modeled from satellite imaging, and so are the cities. That means you can fly over Cape Town for example, and see that same little road you walked down around Table Mountain.

If I'm not mistaken you could do that in flightgear, may not be as great as this, but you could go all the way around the world.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Flightgear didn't have all the airports in the world or it rather didn't even have all the countries, and it wasn't barely as detailed.

I mean this game lets you fly around the ENTIRE world, like everything conceivable.

[RyGuy]

Blood-Pigggy, on Sep 5 2006, 03:00 PM, said:

Flightgear didn't have all the airports in the world or it rather didn't even have all the countries, and it wasn't barely as detailed.

I mean this game lets you fly around the ENTIRE world, like everything conceivable.

But you could fly around the world.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Yes, if you considered a game missing about seventy countries as being able "to fly around the world"  

[RyGuy]

Blood-Pigggy, on Sep 5 2006, 05:02 PM, said:

Yes, if you considered a game missing about seventy countries as being able "to fly around the world"  

It's a flight simulator not a landing simulator.

[Blood-Pigggy]

But it's a flight simulator that only allows you to travel a round a world that's had half of it sucked away by a black hole

[DeathDude]

Maybe it's the a flight simulator of a distant future and or alternate universe of earth or something.

[Doubler]

Hmmm... I distinctly remember being able to fly anywhere in the world with the earlier MSFS's, although most of it was in low detail.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Strange, I remember the earlier MFS games only had a menu with a large variety of flight locations.

[Doubler]

Yeah, but you could actualy fly everywhere. Starting in Berlin, you could fly all the way to and land in New York, should you please (and have the time to spare). Right?

[Blood-Pigggy]

But I still remember that there were inspace loading times, and couldn't you just choose specified parts of the earth as I mentioned before?

[Potatoe]

*drools* So you can pretty much fly anywhere? Even the frozen north? When this comes out I might give it a try. I've always been a sucker for flight sims. Too pad I don't own a joystick, have to save up money.