As does Las Vegas and any other major city we flew over.

London for example features major landmarks and wasteland around them. New to the game is improved terrain with street map data now being provided via Navteq (they supply most GPS makers) and countryside is noticeably more detailed that previous outings, however although Microsoft has picked out key landmarks apart from 28 major cities, there are still a lot of shrub or low rise buildings in the map. Microsoft has also said that with 10,000 real stars in the sky hardened professionals could theoretically use them for navigation. Raining in London, then it's raining in the game.īut the realism and real time elements don't just stop at the weather, traffic data has also been added that means the M25 will be busier at 5 o'clock in the evening than it is at say 2pm in the afternoon and Microsoft has said that it even goes to the extent that busy urbanised areas feature more traffic than local b roads in the countryside. There are numerous planes including for the first time Airbus, 24,000 airports to land and take off from and over 6000 weather stations to ensure that if you are connected to the Internet you can get real time weather wherever you are in the world.

So what do you get for your buck? Plenty. Realism to the fact that in America you can still use this software towards getting your private pilots licence. Those hoping to get some quick flying in, shoot down some enemy planes and save the day should look elsewhere.įlight Sim X is all about the realism. The first thing that you'll notice is that although its got the label 'standard version', Microsoft Flight Simulator X standard version is not by any means standard and certainly not for the faint hearted. (Pocket-lint) - Twenty-five years in the making, Microsoft has updated it popular and long standing flight simulator for the 10th time, but like the Fifa football series, which has been going for around the same length of time, is this just yet another update or a major overhaul? We take to the skies to find out.

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