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Cola 5/27/2009 2:07:51 AM

Any advice on a solid WW II flight sim that will run on the XBOX 360, MAC or PC platforms?

-DA

There was a sim in 1998/99 called "FigherSquadron: Screaming Deamons Over Europe". It isprobably the most comprehensive WW2 (and general) sim there is. Just for the illustration, when you model your plane (or edit existing one), you get to move CG of each wing, engine, fuselage and even ailerons, rudder and tail wheel! Published by Parsoft.

Cola

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Phaid 5/27/2009 6:05:30 AM

If you're a 15 year old lad who doesn't really care about it being realistic and just wants to blow sh!t up then it's the perfect game for you!..

...if you like your propper flight sims and appreciate the realism of them then stay clear.

Not many 25 35, 45 year old would be interested in learning landing procedure, remembering 6 different radar modes plus the control keys filling the whole keyboard plus $100 game stick. High cost of development didn't kill flight sim, steep learning curve plus the boredom of cruising at 30,000ft killed it.

The thickness of game manual of Falcon 4 and Su-27 1.5 would discourage most from even thinking playing the game.

Totally agree. The last really highly detailed flight sim I really played intensively was Tornado back in the early 90s (brief writeup here...). Later on I was all into Red Baron 3D but that wasn't exactly a complex sim. Now the only ones I play are Strike Fighters / Wings Over Vietnam and the new WWI sim by the same company, First Eagles. The Strike Fighters achieves a pretty good balance I think; the flight models are pretty accurate and the behavior of things like radar are fairly realistic, but the controls aren't excessively complex and you don't have to micromanage things the way you do in Falcon 4 and the like. Depending on your game settings, the radar can either look like a real radar (b-sweep line, range gate circle, etc) or a simplified "god's eye" view.

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John G 5/27/2009 7:35:31 AM

HAWX is an arcade game not a flight sim...

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John G 5/27/2009 7:35:41 AM

HAWX is an arcade game not a flight sim...

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ArtyEngineer 5/27/2009 4:10:13 PM

HAWX is an arcade game not a flight sim...

No Sh!t Sherlock!!!! I deduced that after about 30 seconds of play!!!! My mistake was making an impule purchase without any research and assuming that teh association with Tom Clancy would ensure at least some semblance of realism. Valuable lesson learned!!!!

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