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Combat Flight Simulator 2: Pacific Theatre
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WWII in the Pacific challenged pilots and machines as never before. Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 takes you back to this historic time and place with exquisitely detailed aircraft, cockpits, and scenery. The flight dynamics of each accurately engine
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5/5 |
An excellent game
(March 11, 2002) |
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Having never owned a Flight Simulator before i didnt really know what to expect from this game. But what i got has had me hooked ever since i bought it. The graphics are superb and the game play magnificant. Sure there are annoyences, like when you have just come back from a dogfight, downed 3 fighters and a bomber. Been riddled with bullets your engine is just about to pack in and your guns arent working. You approche the runway, are just about to touch down, when one of your wingmen, whom you have kept alive all through the mission just so you can have his expertise on the next "hop", ploughs straight into the back of you!! But dont get me wrong this only happens occasionly and you can put it down to one of the incoviniances of war. The online play is brillient. Pitting your skills against other humans over the world wide web is great fun, and highly addictive. The training missions are very good, and supply you with all the basic skills you will need to know to get started. Also the quick combat mode offers hours of practice and fun. I dont regret buying this game at all, and if you are like me a first time buyer this is deffinatly the game to start you off. |
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3/5 |
Wonderful graphics, but...
(May 25, 2001) |
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Yes, the graphics are indeed wonderful, and I can see why Microsoft wrote this game around 3D graphics. But there are few external views to enable this to be shown off, and the horse gets dull after its one trick is seen and no more are coming. The 'flyability' of the aeroplanes does not seem at all natural to me: good work with the display of the controls is let down by very poor keyboard assignations and a distinct lack of manoeuvrability on the control column. Add to that some very unrealistic flying characteristics (point the P38 Lightning at the ground and that's where it goes, heedless of any flight deviation you might be making on the joystick) and it makes for a huge gulf in sensation between what you're doing on the controls and that 'other world' on the screen. 'Immersive' it ain't. Gameplay itself is very unrealistic. Shoot down six Zeroes that fly around patiently waiting for you, sink a few destroyers, freighters and heavy cruisers by strafing them with small-calibre bullets, and then get killed as you land because one of your wingmen flies straight into you oblivious to your existence in his world. The missions are completely unexciting and pose very little challenge. That is, if you can complete the mission. The biggest obstacle to this is not the airborne enemy but Bill Gates. Can Windows manage your machine's memory well enough to get the mission complete before the game crashes through memory exhaustion? Crash-out rate on my machine is somewhere in the 10-20% range. After running this game, a reboot is needed before running anything else. If I were the Admiral in charge of Pacific Operations, I'd leave the Japanese battle fleets untouched until long after Seattle was bombed into submission. It's a great piece of graphics software that needs a game adding into it. |
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4/5 |
Top Dog
(February 23, 2001) |
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Ace game which enables you to become part of the action . Can get tedious at times starting of with the crap wildcat but it gets better . Brilliant detail on all visuals . If your thinking of buying a combat sim , get this one and you wont be dissapointed . |
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5/5 |
Probably the best flight simulator of it's genre
(February 02, 2001) |
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Open architechture design, the ability to import aircraft and design missions along with the realistic flight emulation all make this a truely brilliant flight simulator. The MSFlight sim engine together with guns make this a fantastic experience for the flight sim fan. For once MS seem to have got it right! Amazing |
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4/5 |
Not at all bad
(January 22, 2001) |
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The scenery really is very realistic, and has hundreds of possible missions complete with medals, commendations, letters of condolence etc. It can be difficult to learn your way into initially, as I was test-flying the Microsoft Sidewinder FF 2 joystick at the same time (highly recommended for this, by the way). I had no experience with US or Japanese planes of this period, and found them quite challenging to begin with. The options for flying different planes are fun, and trying to take off from a carrier with a fully-laden Lightning just illustratates some of the problems they may have faced! |
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