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cccccooooooolllllleeeeeesssssttttttttttt game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game! Besides the 20,000 different airports you can go to, it is a major sightseeing fun factor. You can fly by the statue of liberty, under the golden gate bridge, past the white house, and over the grand canyon. If this game hade a six star rating, I would vote that much. The only complaint is that in n.y., some skyscrapers and stuff stand out, while the rest seems to be a million feet below you. It's just the resoloution. But besides that this the best game ever made! I highly suggest you buy this game as soon as you can.

As accurate as FS98 in geography----Not !

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: March 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have FS98 and both Combat simms, so I bought this one when it came out and although visually impressive, it had so many glitches in the rendering of the geographical boundaries between land and water that I would only give it one star. That was not the only problem, the controls were rearranged by someone who never used FS98 and you will not like the change . Inputed dedaults do not stay after one use, auto pilots dont work, and the lake I live near is unrecognisable. It seems all the effort went into the simulated terrain and major cities and geographical accuracy went out the window.Flight simm 98 is still the most geographicaly accurate flight simm that Microsoft produces.When I fly at my hometown airport I can not recognise where I am once in the air, It is that bad.

DIM SIM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Two years ago I tried Flight Unlimited on an old power mac. It was soooo much better than MS Flight Simulator 2000. I now have a P3 866 with 128DRAM, so this machine should work well with MS FLT SIM 2000, but no such luck. The graphics are slow and choppy and generally pathetic. Even when I fooled around with the settings I couldn't make the sim work as well as Flight Unlimited did on an old mac two years ago! This is a prime example of bigger not being better. Buy Flight Unlimited and wait for MS to learn how to fly. I've been a licensed pilot for 18 years, and MS FS 2K is a real lead ballon.

Just another warmed over game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: May 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Microsoft, in their "infinite wisdom",has decided to warm over their FS98 version with this "clunker". After gobbling up more than 1 gigabyte of hard drive to do a custom load they still want you to do a lot of CD swapping just to play the game. At least with FS98, you can load it and play it off your hard drive. Iv'e spent more time loading and, swapping cd's than I have playing FS2000. Nothing too "whoopee" about their so called improved graphics either. A few little "frills" here and, there. I'm sure MS is proud of the fact that to start the game you have to verify each time by loading the CD's, taking from 1 to 3 minutes. "bummer".

Microsoft Flight Sim 2K Pro edition

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What pushes the 2K Pro. past the middle star in the 5 star rating is the additional air craft. There may be more detailed scenery but the details are no better than the vanilla 2000 and you still can't land the whirly bird on a building top without incurring a "building crash". A word of caution: If you are planning to get any of the flight sims bundled with a computer check to be sure they include a Pilot's Handbook. Gateway does not and wont get it for you either. You have to find and buy after-market books on everything in order to fully enjoy your system.

Very Disappointed with MS FS 2000

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: July 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

No enginge sound with Win95. Graphics are very pixelated, slow, with poor resolution similar to an old Commodore 64. I am using a new AbitBE6II/PII350Mhz/128Mram100mhz/8meg3dvideo card/7200RMP HD/50XCD. I will try to return it to Amazon.

Excellent Product!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This products reflects 17 years of Flight Simulator history. New 3D Landscape, Real-world weather, two more planes (4 more on pro ver), High resolution destinations and much more. If you have played FS98, you will feel the difference. The worst part is it has EXTREMELY HIGH System Requirements. I have PIII 600Mhz, 128MB Ram & 16Mb V3 3000. Frame rate was 18-24 at 1280X768 when i first played it (Full Screen increases perfromances). Then i read it on the manual that for the best performance upgrade your drivers and install FS2000 upgrade too. Then the frame rate was 28-36. WOW! I'd recommend PIII 550-700 128MB RAM and 16-32MB VRAM for acceptional performance.

Where is the Mississippi River?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: August 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I give Flight Simulator 2000 one star because it works. It only crashes my system after I exit the game and try to play something else. I am outraged at the poor quality of the game. Realism? Who ever heard of flying anything with the fuel pump turned off and instruments working with the Pitot Heat switch in off position? Graphics detail? Where is the Mississippi River? I can't find it and it should be 3 miles from the main runway at St. Charles County Smartt Field. It's trash and I am going to mutilate the CDs and ship the game box back to Bill Gates. I have my pride.

Sierra Software pioneered the flight simulator and for many years was quite successful with it. It's unbelievable that this product put Sierra out of the flight simulator business. Sierra's Pro Pilot 98 is miles ahead of Flight Simulator 2000. If you can find a copy of Pro Pilot 98, Pro Pilot 99 or any flight simulator other than this one, buy it.

It's better than Flight Simulator 2000, well worth it...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I first got Microsoft Flight Simulator 95, Always used it until now, I got Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000. It is very fun, and realistic. If you use MSN's ...game network, you can join online sessions, fly with others, if you also get Roger Wilco, you can participate in live ATC, (air traffic control) and that is also alot of fun, and realistic. I suggest that anyone who wants a flight simulator, get this one, it's the best, also, if you can get yoke, and rudder pedals for your PC, it would be even more fun and realistic.

Flight Simulator 2000

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well if you are a commercial pilot then you and only could really enjoy this. I could not endure the slow going of this software. Sorry but unless you enjoyed being bored to death hunt for something else!!

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