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Amazon.co.uk Review
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 has come on leaps and bounds since the last edition. With improved graphics, greater realism and plenty of options you will be hard pushed to find a better flight simulator.
They always say that God is in the detail, and the Flight simulator team have proved it here. The main difference you will notice straight away is in the landscape detail, taking on ideas that they have learnt through previous versions and their work on Microsoft Train Simulator (it's the same team), they have produced scenery that is very impressive. The sea shimmers in the sunlight, while waves crash against the sea shore. Improved detail also means that certain cities like Las Vegas have character to them--you can see the lights and fireworks at night--while some airports now have the ability for you to dock at specific gates.
It's not just the scenery though that has been improved and Microsoft Flight Simulator has now got a fully interactive Air Traffic Control system allowing you to request everything from landing procedures to traffic information. The need for a runway is no guarantee however, as the game has also introduced an amphibian plane to content with, allowing you to land on any lake, sea or river.
With so many features including downloadable live weather, multiplayer functions and even an analysis option to record your flights, this is one hefty product that will quench the thirst of any flight sim fan.
While the standard edition will give you virtually all you need for a flight sim game, the professional version is dedicated to those you know what they want. With additional planes, an editor to design your own planes and the impressive instructor feature over the Web--it allows you when practising with others over the Web to force errors--this edition is well worth the addition £20, and what's more at the moment Microsoft is offering £15 cash back.--Jason Denwood
Manufacturer's Description
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 Professional Edition is the revolutionary new version of Microsoft's highly realistic aviation simulation - the best-selling PC flight simulation ever produced. Flight Simulator 2002 introduces many exciting features, including interactive air traffic control (ATC), auto-generated scenery, plus challenging new aircraft - even a floatplane - and stunning visual enhancements that truly make Flight Simulator 2002 Professional Edition As real as it gets.
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
As a Private Pilot this title is as close as it gets to the real thing currently. The attention to detail is phenominal especially with the added interactive ATC and virtual cockpit. If anything it is harder to fly here than the real thing, but it really can be used to practice, especially for Instrument ratings. I doubt very much I would be sad enough to be running through check lists etc. before taking off, but is there if you so desire. Scenery and airports are also much improved in this version. Was always a little wary paying 65 notes for a game, but having spent the best part of a week being unable to drag myself away from my PC it's well worth it. The best PC Flight Sim Available
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By S.W.
Flight Simulator 2000 was a disappointment to say the least. Even the most powerful systems slowed to a crawl, and that wasn't even with the graphical effects turned up. Freezing, hanging, and a host of nightmare issues to sort out before you even got in the air all added up to a terrible edition of this 20yr old simulator. In 2002, all this has changed. Beautiful graphics, flight modelling, amazingly realistic Air Traffic Control, Artificial Intelligence which controls other aircraft in the sky, and NONE of this has hardly any effect on the frame rates. Me personally, I run a Celeron 566MHz machine, with 192Mb RAM and a 16Mb graphics card. I get in the region of 15-20 frames/sec on the ground, and upwards of 40 frames/sec in the air, even with a lot of the effects turned on. Can't recommend this title enough, it's fantastic, but don't forget.. it isn't a game, it's a simulator, and there are no guns or killing! Just fly!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
I'm a certified pilot and have been "playing" flight sims for many years and have tried them all. Flight Simulator 2002 is the best. The technical performance of the games is excellent on the average PC, the detail of the scenery is breathtaking, the flight models are excellent..but more importantly is just thoroughly enjoyable. My only criticism is that the professional edition does not justify the extra cost.
It is a massive improvement over flight sim 2000.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
After the disappointment of Flight Simulator 2000, Microsoft has revamped almost every area of the sim and released a much better product, a product which will become the standard that others will be compared against. The entire world is modelled in stunning detail, and the new autogen feature (which adds pseudo-random scenery - buildings & trees) cranked up to maximum really makes the difference. Cities become sprawling landscapes, forests are really full of trees for a change. The aircraft included are all superb, and it won't be long before more are available on-line. The one thing that stopped me giving this 5 stars is the actual physical product, I bought the professional version which costs a lot of money, to find only a small cardboard box, 3 leaflets and 3 CDs in a cardboard sleeve is I think disgraceful. Past versions of this product (ie before MS bought it) supplied you with an excellent manual and navigation charts. Manuals are available on the CD but the style is more rhetoric and somehow rather less informative.
Still, the programming team responsible have produced an excellent product and as ever the bigger company have let us down.
However I note that Amazon supply a free book to counter this, so if you want simply the best civilian flight simulator, Flight Simulator 2002 is it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
It's not a "game" and you don't "play" it. It's much more than that. It does what it says on the box. It's as real as it gets. It's a simulator and you fly it!
Microsoft have produced something which lives up to all the hype. This is a massive leap forward from FS2000. Gone are the low frame rates and the jerky movements and in their place are aircraft which just glide through the sky. The aircraft handle much better too. I can fly the 737 from take off to landing without using the autopilot, something which was almost impossible in FS2000. And the scenery - at times it's almost like being there. It felt so real I was convinced I could smell aviation fuel as I waited for air traffic control clearance to take off.
I went straight to my favourite airport. I took off from Innsbruck late in the afternoon in the middle of winter. There was snow on the mountains and wisps of clouds around the summits as I set off towards the setting sun heading through valleys and over alpine passes for Sion in Switzerland. The views were stunning and the new virtual cockpit allows you too look quickly around to left and right just as you need to be able to do as you fly up narrow twisting valleys. The clouds are so much better too. Going out for a walk later in the day I looked up at the sky....hey they look just like the clouds in FS2002! And the major airports have been transformed. Heathrow looks like Heathrow!
This is very good indeed. Well done Microsoft.
Microsoft have produced something which lives up to all the hype. This is a massive leap forward from FS2000. Gone are the low frame rates and the jerky movements and in their place are aircraft which just glide through the sky. The aircraft handle much better too. I can fly the 737 from take off to landing without using the autopilot, something which was almost impossible in FS2000. And the scenery - at times it's almost like being there. It felt so real I was convinced I could smell aviation fuel as I waited for air traffic control clearance to take off.
I went straight to my favourite airport. I took off from Innsbruck late in the afternoon in the middle of winter. There was snow on the mountains and wisps of clouds around the summits as I set off towards the setting sun heading through valleys and over alpine passes for Sion in Switzerland. The views were stunning and the new virtual cockpit allows you too look quickly around to left and right just as you need to be able to do as you fly up narrow twisting valleys. The clouds are so much better too. Going out for a walk later in the day I looked up at the sky....hey they look just like the clouds in FS2002! And the major airports have been transformed. Heathrow looks like Heathrow!
This is very good indeed. Well done Microsoft.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Flight simulator is quite literally as real as it gets now with FS2002.
Excellent Graphics that generate wherever you fly with hardley any slowdown even on the highest settings. ATC is spot on. You can request clearence for landing and takeoff, request to taxi to parking etc, etc... See other planes in the sky as you are flying, but you are kept at a safe distance by ATC. Other big changes are to the water and virtual cockpit.
Excellent Graphics that generate wherever you fly with hardley any slowdown even on the highest settings. ATC is spot on. You can request clearence for landing and takeoff, request to taxi to parking etc, etc... See other planes in the sky as you are flying, but you are kept at a safe distance by ATC. Other big changes are to the water and virtual cockpit.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Flight sim 2002
This is one of the best of the flight sim games. I had a copy but one of the discs got lost. I had to replace it.
Published on 14 Dec 2010 by Mr. J. Fowler
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good......but could be better.
The lack of adequate elevations in many areas is dissapointing. Flying over the Caribbean Islands is like flying over a barren plain.
Published on 9 Jan 2002
4.0 out of 5 stars
You're Cleared for Purchase, stright out!!
It was worth the wait, simple as that!
The professional version was beyond my pocket but quite frankly who cares. Read more
The professional version was beyond my pocket but quite frankly who cares. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2001 by J HOLLINSHEAD
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but should have been better!
As a professional airline pilot I must say I am disappointed with the lack of serious improvements over Flight Sim 2000. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2001 by S. Pells
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another "buggy" masterpiece from Microsoft
The best version of Microsoft Flight Simulator yet. The new ATC is excellent and the scenery is a leap forward from the last version. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Flight Simulator available
Having owned all previous versions of Flight Simulator this is the best version yet. FS 2000 was critisised for slowing systems down to a crawling pace resulting in slow frame... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars
FS2002 The best just got better
Yeah microsoft flight sim 2000 was good but 2002 is 10 times better. You get better excellently detailed aircraft, wicked air traffic control, mouthwatering graphics, excellent... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2001 by K Denman
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