"Heaven without borders and a world full of life," promises the back of Microsoft Flight Simulator X. There
The Flight Simulator X is available in 3 versions: Standard, Gold and Professional.
a big difference there are actually only between the standard and gold versions. The gold version has more aircraft and missions. The difference between the Gold version to the Professional version is only slightly.
Now to the gameplay. I own the game now for over a week and am really surprised positively. The graphics are good and the control is very pronounced.
has been since my last FS, the Flight Simulator 2002, but also user-friendly. It is now a wide variety of aircraft available and airports are more detailed than before. Cities have been improved and are now detailed.
In addition, in the original aircraft now Garmin navigation devices installed. Part of the G500, but the G1000.
It will be the start of the simulator immediately asked if you want to visit the "Flight School". Here is there training for start and landing with an ultra-light, to long-haul flights with a Boeing.
But you can also start with a free flight, sat down on a plane and fly off before or are still planning a route. As the simulator is a real-time simulator should plan their route carefully. A flight from Munich to Berlin is already one hour, to complete. However, one can save his flight and simply load it again later.
The radio traffic is also very real. The ground control makes sure that you bring the aircraft safely to the ground.
Unfortunately I have not gotten the "missions" bin, also known as inserts to try. Gold and Professional version offers more than 50 "most interesting assignments."
I also am still not gotten the multiplayer mode to test. He even promises the acquisitions of a tower at an airport, which sounds very interesting. Now
negative to the striking points: The game
consumes a lot of computer resources. Such as 15GB of hard disk space (but completely are justified!)
For me, it is also occasionally small crashes, even though my computer meets the minimum requirement. These minimum requirements are really the minimum, this can be read in many forums. The gameplay on a PC that meets the minimum requirements will also be minimal.
The last negative point is the point of the serial number. You can only activate 2x. Then you have probably contact Microsoft. Without activation, you can play the game is limited.
Conclusion: Despite some negative points (which there always) I find the game extremely successful. I'm going to play the game for quite some time. However, I strongly recommend, playing with a joystick, arrow keys, the airplane is not really well controlled.
More information as well as thoughts can be found at Amazon:
standard version
Gold version
Professional version
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