From the interior of your cockpit to the world below, every flight in the game is a digital photographer’s paradise. However, in Microsoft Flight Simulator, almost everything just looks fantastic. One of the biggest issues that the flight simulator genre has faced is that the actual world you’re flying through often looks somewhere in between awful and terrible. The other thing that welcomes new players, as well as helps veteran pilots stay engaged, is the game’s good graphical fidelity. The flight school, which includes good voice acting and objectives that aren’t overly punishing, do a lot to make the game more welcoming in a genre that often does its best to leave new players out to dry. Experienced pilots don’t need to complete the handful of missions to enter the game’s sandbox, but new players can enjoy them instead of having to figure the game out with a YouTube video. The first loading screen you see gives you a good idea about how pretty the rest of the game is.Įven with just these customisation options, the game would be miles ahead of its competitors, but what makes it even better is that there’s also an enjoyable tutorial for you to play through. You can change every control in the game with the help of a search bar, the game detects and sets up any joysticks you have attached and you can even change the game’s font size. The options, which are showcased in a solidly designed menu, include everything from graphical customisations to how realistically you want your plane to fly. As soon as you boot up the game, you’ll have the ability to change almost everything about your experience. Within the first five minutes of playing the game, it’s impossible not to notice the insane leap of quality that the game has made from its contemporaries. However, Microsoft Flight Simulator manages to defy every single one of those negative traits to an astounding degree. Muddy textures, poor performance, limited map sizes and bad tutorials are all staples of a genre that’s notorious for being unwelcoming and unenjoyable to anyone but die-hard fans of flying virtual planes.
Plane games from just a few years ago feel like they were made in an entirely different generation.
Although there’s no shortage of flight simulators, there’s been a weird lack of evolution in the genre. Technology is the key word in that previous sentence. You don’t have to be 200-odd years old to appreciate this marvel of technology, though, and in no better game is that technology showcased than in Microsoft Flight Simulator. What would definitely get you put into a straitjacket, though, would be describing how mankind has taken to the skies so frequently that people in the 21st century use planes in simulations much in the same way that those living in the 1800s use pawns in chess. To suggest to someone’s great great great grandparents, however, that taking to the skies would become as banal as riding a horse would have ensured people call you crazy. Can we all take a minute to appreciate the fact that not only can humans fly, but that we’ve flown so much that planes are now a hobby? If you’d told someone 200 years ago that the human race would have the ability to do what birds do, it’s possible that you could’ve found someone to believe you.
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