Best Flight-Sim for XBOX 360 so far
posted by cbsmith (NOVATO, CA) Oct 27, 2007
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This game has been the best flight-sim game I have played on the XBOX 360. The graphics are absolutely amazing and make you want to play it more and more.
When I first started the game and the tutorials, it reminded me of the demo which was just...OK. As the game goes on, you become immersed in rich landscapes, detailed aircraft and cool weapon systems. I could not keep myself from playing this game all night long as I earned new aircraft and progressed into harder and more challenging missions.
The game does have a somewhat weird story line and it just goes on and on sometimes, but lucky for us, the developers allow you to skip these "movies" by pressing start and get on with blowing things up. Another thing that bothered me was the fictional names of countries and cities, and sometimes I can't help but laugh at it. They could of come up with a better story line ("fly with the angles", please) and names like "Gracemeria", or whatever it is called. And they have massive flying aircraft carriers and long tunnels you fly through in mountains (the best missions so far), so that is also not realistic, but very fun to play.
The controls are great for a flight-sim with only having the 14 buttons or so for doing everything. It was a little tricky at first, but once you play a few missions, you'll have it down.
It is also great that you can save your replays and control the different angles of the camera and go to fast-forward or slow motion, just no reverse.
The jets are awesome and so are the weapons. It is classic that they give you 120 or so missiles, unlimited ammo (bullets), and 25-40+ special weapons that regenerate after a few seconds, and you can land at airports off the map to resupply. Not very realistic in the real world, but it works for this game.
Wish there were more missions (11 total I think), but going to try out the XBOX LIVE on this game, and it should be fun.
I recommend renting this game if your into flight-sim/arcade.
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