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Game Information
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / 95
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 3
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- Experience interactive Air Traffic Control
- Ask for permission to taxi, take off and land
- Marvel at auto-generated scenery - When flying above cities, towns
- Fly in crowded skies - While the auto-generated 3-D objects fill in details below
- Experience stunning aircraft models and special effects
- Fly new aircraft
- Enhanced virtual cockpits (with a 3-D graphics card)
- Flight analysis - pilots work to improve their skills
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Product Description
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:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic!!!,
By Craig McLaren (Glasgow) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 - Professional Edition (PC) (Video Game)
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:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic,
By S.W. (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 - Professional Edition (PC) (Video Game)
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:
5.0 out of 5 stars
By far the best.....,
By A Customer
This review is from: Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 - Professional Edition (PC) (Video Game)
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.
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