The best Flight Sim out there (Flight Simulator X Gold (PC))

Member Name: dndewar

Product:	Flight Simulator X Gold (PC)
Date:	30/10/09 (78 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: The whole of Earth to roam, nearlly every airport to land, all countries to visit. Brillaint Graphic

Disadvantages: A lot like FS2004 though with a few more features.

Flight Simulator puts any ordinary person in the place of the pilot in the cockpit. They can perform missions or fly casually anywhere around the world.
The game is good for anyone who really enjoys and has a facination in Aircraft. With neally all the worlds airports, air traffic controls, superb multiplayer, different aircraft to fly, different aircraft to download... your unlikely to give this up easily.
I have split this review into sections which I beleive a game like this much have in order to be good. Each section shall be rated /10 along with a comment.

Graphics: 9/10
If you have a PC which has a good graphics card then you can have all the graphics at max. (Geforce 9500 is what I use whichi s rather cheap). When you have graphics at max the whole planet looks so details. The ground looks like it would if you were really flying over in a real aircraft.
Airport detail is also good but could use a little more detail but overall, they're brillaint graphics.

Gameplay: 7/10
In order to play your going to have to learn loads of new controls, just do you can stay in the air. This can be quite hard if you haven't played any of these flight sims from microsoft before. Though, there are tutorials for you to learn but they only cover the basics. Such as for landing aircraft at an airport, in the tutorial you landing a very small light aircraft. If you then try and use the same technique landing a Boeing Passenger jet it so much more of a challenge and can get fustrating. Though I'm able to do it, why shouldn't you.
They aslo have plenty of missions for you to complete which you can spend time on. So its not just a boring simulator but has some very tough challenging missions for you to complete.
When playing of free mode you can fly anywhere you want in earth, such a vast game world and the whole planet seems to be to scale. So in real life, if it took you an hour to fly to Amsterdam, it'd take you an hour to fly there ingame.

Price: 8/10
For the size of the whole world and all the programing that had to go into this game its worth the price. Also as in Gold you get an exspension pack of Flight Sim Acceleration it's very much worth it. The only problem I see with this price is that it isn't too much different to its previous version Flight Sim 2004. Just more missions and a little better graphics. If I were going to be the first to decide which gmae to buy I'd proberbly buy FS 2004 as its cheaper and does nearlly exactly the same thing. Though overall its a good price for the game.

Requirements: 10/10 (don't need a brillaint computer to play)
1 GB RAM for XP and Vista- does work on Windows 7
Processor atleast 2.0 GHz or more
15GB Hard Drive Space
Multiplayer: atleast 56.6kbps but I recommend atleast a fast broadband connection
Direct X 9
128 MB Video Ram

Glitches: 10/10
Haven't yet found any major glitches. Only very small graphical

Features: 10/10
Many planes, the whole world to travel and you can also download free content for the game.

Overall: 8/10
A lot of things that can be donew in this game, from roaming the wohle planet and seeing major landmarks you've never seen before. Donig missions to earn badges or just pretending your a pilot. A great game for a very decent price.

Summary: A great game for if you want to preted your a pilot and visit countries you've never visited before.