Saturday, September 10, 2011

Choosing the Best Flight Simulator Game

By James Smith


The best PC flight simulator is quite possibly going to be one you have never heard about. Flight sim packages are rather a specialist bit of software. As a result you may regularly find that most of the finest flight sims are only available online instead of as a shrink wrapped product to be purchased in your nearby computer shop. So you have got to do a little bit of reading to find out what is out there.

Flight simulation programmers have to strike a equilibrium between making the software fun and feeling like a computer game and being real enough to feel enough like you are flying a real plane. The problem with making things too real is you can neglect the enjoyment part and the simulation can be boring for all but the most enthusiastic flyers.

The steep learning curve often linked with flight simulators tends to limit their appeal to people apart from those who are terribly enthusiastic about recreating the piloting experience as accurately as possible. Many flight simulators available will do nothing apart from make you curse with disappointment at their difficulty. You need to find the correct balance of realism and pleasure. For this reason I think Pro Flight Simulator to be the best PC flight simulator available. It's is both stunningly realistic and is superb fun too.

It's all very well having a realistic flight simulation but if the visuals are unrealistic then you are not going to get much pleasure from admiring the views. For me the best computer flight simulation is all about exploring as much as it is about flight. I like to feel like I have the liberty to travel where I like and explore the landscape of the earth from the air. I love to fly over realistic landscapes, and if they are based totally on real world geography then so much the better.

A good flight sim should be created with a gentle learning process that rewards you for your progression instead of penalising you for your lack of it. Variety is important. Pro Flight Simulator for instance has over 120 aircraft and over 20,000 airfields. There's no end of varied flying experiences and locations to fly to.

It is vital for a simulator package to incorporate an all-embracing manual, demos and tutorials. The best flight simulators are expandable with extra add-ons that may be purchased that add yet further variety to the simulation experience.

To select the best PC flight sumulation for your wishes you want to decide on whether it is amusement you are after or realism. The other thing to search for is whether you just need to fly or are you wanting to engage in combat by flying fighter aircraft. Some flight simulations such as Pro Flight Simulator even allow you to fly choppers.




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