Flight Simulator X Demo

ChemicalWarrior · 08-09-2006, 10:28 PM

The demo for the upcoming Flight Simulator X has been released online today.

Weighs in at 636Mb and will feature St. Maarten in the Caribbean and include 2 airports and 3 missions of progressing difficulty.

You can pick it up here: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/flightsim2006/downloads/

LoPo · 08-09-2006, 10:29 PM

You can also get it here:
http://browse.files.filefront.com/Fl...owsefiles.html

LoPo · 08-10-2006, 01:06 AM

Since I've owned every Flight Simulator since I think 3.0, I can honestly say this is a reallllly nice update.

They've taken away the default cockpit view and replaced with the first person view of the entire cockpit, definitely changes flying, at least of me.

I was able to adjust.

There is a new view, landing view. You sit towards the rear of the plane behind the gear. Awesome view.

There is much needed updates to landing gear animation, reverse thrust(jets) animation, flaps, spoiler and, landing animations.

The graphics were a bit glitchy with things turned up, which surprised me a bit.

The game interface to configure and start is basically that of 2004.

There is actual airport traffic, meaning, baggage carts, trucks, gas trucks, etc that you can turn up and down.

I did notice freeway traffic moving.

The environment graphics are upgraded, cities still have a 2D look to them... but I imagine they will work on this before release.

Another cool feature, is your view is affected by gforce... meaing, when you accelerate to take off, your head/view tilts back.... and when you land and hit the brakes, your head dips forward. Sweet feature.

All in all, very nice. I will pick this one up, but I already knew that before playing the demo.

{OF}Impaired · 08-27-2006, 11:15 AM

i hope i can fly

gonna be cool to actually use my flight stick