Binding: DVD-ROM Brand: Microsoft EAN: 0882224258043 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Microsoft Manufacturer: Microsoft Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: October 17, 2006 Sales Rank: 208 Special Features: nv:Software Type^Games Studio: Microsoft
Features:
Fly 24 different airplanes, including Ultralites for when you don't want to deal with all the knobs and dials
Visit 24,000 of the world's airports, on all 7 continents
Authentic road layouts - fly over your home town and navigate by the streets below
Simulates advanced GPS technology
Deeply immersive world to providing more structured gameplay elements
Product DescriptionFlight Simulator X will awe flight simulator fans and real pilots alike. All-new eye-popping graphics, actual missions to accomplish and a wider range of airports to visit recreate the experience of being a pilot, right down to the smallest detail. Complete point-to-point objectives and skill-based tests, or just fly around the world if you'd prefer that to ferrying passengers or cargo. Whatever you choose to do as a pilot, it's available here in Flight Simulator X Deluxe.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - serious simulator
I am taking flying lessons in a Cessna 172, and this simulator is on spot to practice procedures---aka fly by the numbers (which I learned is very important). However, using a joystick and keyboard is not the same as the real cockpit of course, and the details are not nearly as breathtaking in a real plane.
Rating: - Good stuff. My preferred Flight Sim over all others.
I've been flying Microsoft for several years now, since FS2000 Pro. This version is a huge improvement over FS2000, Large improvement over FS2002, good improvement over FS2004.
One thing I REALLY like is being able to see the small hills the highways follow, and they're where they are in real life. Nice. The terrain is similar to 2000 and 2004 but the trees and water are dramatically better. I think the flight dynamics are far, far better than any previous version. I also bought X-Plane ... Read More
Rating: - Microsoft is very misleading... Unless you have a blazing fast powerful system save your money
Although the interior cockpits of this game have been greatly improved to look and perform much like the real thing, this game is a complete waste of money unless you have a PC with at least 3.5 Ghz and around 3 GB of RAM. I was completely disappointed after paying $50 for the deluxe edition and finding out that the graphical quality didn't even work with the system specs written on the box. I will never buy another one of Microsofts products again. However as negative as this review might sound, for ... Read More
Rating: - Fu%&*ng AMAZING
BEST GAME EVER... SO REALISTIC IT IS DISGUSTING (and im a 1st person shooting gamer). So now you know how great this game is. 150% recommended
Rating: - Very nice
a well done product but the previous version was a little sharper in the glass cockpit instruments. nice array of aircraft and places to fly them in and out of.
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- Good stuff. My preferred Flight Sim over all others. 
- Microsoft is very misleading... Unless you have a blazing fast powerful system save your money
- Very nice