![]() ![]() ![]() On Discovery Flights you have no control of where you start, the plane you’re flying, or the time of day or weather, but on the World Map you set up a flight from and to anywhere you like. Once you’ve messed around with the Discovery Flights you’re ready to work through the Flight Training mode – which is very comprehensive but also very compact – and from there to the meat of the experience on the World Map. Especially as there aren’t many charter flights that try to see if they can fly between the gaps in Tower Bridge. It’s easy to see why this became so popular last year, when almost nobody was able to fly, and given most people will still be avoiding international travel that extra thrill is still present. By comparison, Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of the most graphically impressive console titles ever made.įlyovers of everywhere from Mount Everest to the pyramids of Giza and skyscrapers of New York City look startlingly realistic, with the freedom to fly anywhere you want without restriction. Ironically, the further you go back in time the more prevalent they are and, of course, the less realistic the graphics are (this is what Microsoft Flight Simulator looked like in 1982). That’s especially necessary as flight simulators are such a rarity in the modern era, especially on consoles. ![]() We should emphasise, again, that none of these are complaints but it’s important to make it clear exactly what Microsoft Flight Simulator is and why we’re not giving it a score out of 10. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t accessible – controlling a plane in flight with all the assists on is extremely easy – or that there aren’t detailed tutorials, but there’s no structure at all and the only challenge is turning off those assists and thereby upping the realism. Unlike a car simulator, which at least has the artifice of races and in-game progression, there is no attempt here to add anything that does not involve an exacting simulation of flying a modern aircraft. ![]()
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