Microsoft Flight Simulator X Review

Ratings: Gameplay: 25/25, Graphics: 15/25, Creativity 20/25, Fun 25/25
Total: 85/100

Being the tenth flight sim from Microsoft would have to be some kind of record, or a great run of some awesome games. I have played most of the flight simulator games from Microsoft and enjoyed every one but am truly torn between two of the latest, Flight Simulator X and the older Combat Flight Sim 3. I just love flying in general and I do like the adventure and excitement of combat but then there is something to be said about a leisurely ride on a sail plane. The wind whistling past the canopy as you sail across azure skies in the dawn of the desert over North Africa. These are things, at least the leisurely plane rides, not the combat, that you can do in Flight Sim X.

As I mentioned Microsoft Flight Simulator X as the name implies is the newest flight simulation game from Microsoft and is truly a great software program as well as a flight sim. This program is not merely a flight sim but an entire software suite of flying games, flight training and pilot tutorials wrapped into one huge package. Flight Simulator X is one of the largest projects in flying to come along in the history of the video game and it does take its toll on computers. I just received my new system and found that it does tax even a really good CPU and other components.