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Summary: A real barn burner
Review: I own all three of these flight sims now, and I can't get enough! The missions are a little weak, but the views of the planes in flight more than makes up for it. Go buy this one!
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Summary: Decent, but lacking
Review: CFS continues MS line of great looking flight sims, but falls short on the combat side. Missions are repeatitive and there aren't many of them. While changeable options allow you to customize how realistic your plane is, it is often hard to find a middle ground that truly creates the feel of being an actual pilot. Rather than CFS, I'd recommend getting Janes WWII Fighers, it continues the wonderful Janes tradition of finding an excellent balance between realism and fun.
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Summary: Snore
Review: This is a joke of a game. Let's see, a campaign can be finished in an hour. The AI makes you conclude that enemy fighter pilots have a deep vindictive nature (is mine the only plane in the sky?). All in all, this game is like a new level of computer chess--boring as hell, and yet somehow intelligently scripted [SCRIPTED]!
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Summary: Best Flight Simulator I've Played!
Review: I first tried another flight simulator named Luftwaffe Commander, which I liked alot & later tried Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, which I liked even more.The graphics are really good learning the basic moves was easy, I especially like the way you can add-on planes, missions & other things to the basic game. Another nice thing is the controll level of the UI, in the middle of the game you can get help, adjust window size like it was any other part of Windows & the manual is really worded well. This game is really good!
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Summary: Difficulties Playing & Lack of Support
Review: CFS has excellent graphics but is limited on number and types of missions available. Jerky motions at times. I had difficulties playing as game quit and returned to "Desktop" without warning. Tried MS Support and they could not resolve the problem. I have plenty of space for game with a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI graphics card. I would not purchasse this game knowing what I know now. I bought Jane's WWII Fighters and it plays without any problems. Microsoft's CFS is not designed for today's PC's, in my opinion. My CFS CD is now collecting dust. Look elsewhere for flight sim games.
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Summary: Flight Action
Review: If you are looking for the most realistic combat simulator this one is close. The flight behavior is what you have come to expect form Microsoft. The missions are good but the timesaver button makes it a little to easy. If you like flight sims with some action this one is good for a few hours of your time.
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Summary: Great game buy it now
Review: Agreat game! The game features a good realism factor, goodgraphics although it is belittled by the CFS 2 screenshots , and some great missions, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT is the ability to use millions of planes off of the web plus import FS 98 a/c directly into the game. Great your thinking, but the area that it falls short is the campaigns, the only good one from an emersion point of view is the Battle of britain from the luftwaffe point, but the best one for fun is the Bttl of europe from the luftwaffe, This problem is remidied by the fact that there hundreds of better ones on the internet, plus some of the planes on the web are better too. Every thing about the game is great, just fly the single mission "clobber college" against ace pilots Just over a hundred planes allied and axis of all sorts wheeling about the skies.Ahhh i love the smell of burning messerschmitt in the morning! One other problem is that in most of the missions though it is just you and your wingman, possibly up to eight in the campaigns. in short BUY IT NOW...
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Summary: So-so
Review: As an experience, Microsoft's 'Combat Flight Simulator' is rather akin to watching your parents dance - it's an attempt to inject some fun into the staid 'Flight Simulator' series, and whilst it retains all the virtues of the longest-running flight sim series ever, it doesn't totally work, being not much fun to play as a game. The presentation is solid, and extremely unspectacular - the graphics are very rough, and the sound is nothing to write home about, although the trails of debris that fall from the back of enemy aircraft is attractive. You can choose to fly a limited set of single missions (some of which seem oddly hard, simply because you don't have enough ammunition to destroy your assigned targets), or a 'campaign', but disappointingly the 'campaign' is just a set of single missions, one after the other, generating no atmosphere at all. It isn't a patch on the campaign mode in Microprose's 'European Air War', or the modern 'Falcon 4', in which the course of a war is modelled and remembered from mission to mission. The end result is that the game quickly becomes quite monotonous, and with no real incentive for you to do well from mission to mission the thought of taking off for another round of bomber interception palls. Special mention must be made of the manual, which, 'DiD'-style, has lots and lots of information, but doesn't actually tell you much about flying, fighting, and most importantly dropping bombs. That said, all of Europe is modelled, and if you have the time you can try flying from London to Paris by landmarks and compass, if you so desire. And a thriving community of 'Flight Sim' buffs will ensure that the CD you get in the box is only the start of an ongoing affair.
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Summary: Great graphics, not so great campaigns
Review: A good WW II flight sim should contain 4 key elements: Great graphics, great campaigns, realistic flight modeling, and good flight damage modeling. Combat flight simulator gets 2 out of 4. The game has some of the best graphics I have ever seen in a flight sim. The texture mapping on the landscapes is so detailed and sharp that sometimes you'll swear its real. In fact, it looks so realistic that at times the CGI planes look out of place against the more true to life terrain. The cockpits are nicely rendered and the planes look fantastic. When a plane takes damage and begins to stream smoke the effect looks very good. The flight modeling seems to be pretty accurate. You have three different levels of difficulty with the 'Ace' setting giving you the most realistic experience of flying these planes. The planes never seem too difficult to handle but don't fly themselves by any means. I have found myself in several spins that were either difficult to get out of or ended in me ejecting from the plane. Good stuff. But don't let the graphics convince you this is a good game. There are some faults, damage modeling being the biggest problem. While in combat, I have blasted hundreds of rounds at enemy planes and witnessed bursts of debris come off the plane but nothing in terms of the degree of damage is seen - no bullet holes, no charred/burnt sections, no parts of the plane missing. In the intro you can see a couple of planes lose their wings in a blaze of destruction but I have yet to create this same effect in actual gameplay. And, surprisingly, when your own craft is destroyed you get the same stock explosion with obviously simple polygons representing the debris of your plane giving your demise a kind of "canned" feel. These problems detract from the virtual realism you want in a flight sim. The campaign modes are the least interseting aspect of the game and leave a lot to be desired. I want a sense of "being there" from my sims, outside of combat. I want detailed debriefings after a mission. I want to feel a sense of camaraderie with my fellow virtual pilots. I want to know who made it back and who didn't. I want to see how many kills my squad mates got so I have a benchmark with which to compete. I don't care if the missions are scripted or dynamic so long as they have that feel that really immerses you in a campaign. The campaigns here fall flat. If you are the kind of flight sim gamer who doesn't care about immersion in a campaign then the graphics alone will not disappoint. There are also some pretty good single mission that are not tied to a campaign but the re-playability value based on the single missions alone probably wouldn't be worth the purchase. There is also a quick mission feature which puts you right in the middle of battle. While this is a pretty good feature you can set the number of opponents in a squad but you can't give yourself any wingmen, so its just you against however many enemy pilots you choose. If you're into graphics, definitely get this or Jane's WW II fighters. If you want great gameplay and engrossing campaigns go with European Air War. I am hoping for better things from Combat Flight Simulator II - Pacific Theater coming in 4Q 2000.
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Summary: A Realistic simulation!
Review: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator is a World War II era flight simulator, with amazingly realistic graphics! I enjoyed flying the six fighter planes in many different flying conditions.
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