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Major Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: October 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

How unfortunate it is that Microsoft has failed to at least match the great fun that was (and is) CFS1. This program is huge(850MB for the default installation)and seemingly it requires the very latest hardware to have it work properly. For this size of program, one would expect it the blow you away, but it is nothing but a great disappointment. From the illegible tactical displays to the small aircraft size to the cartoon intro, this waste of my money really turned me off.

Bugs

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game is really nice! Very nice graphics and scenery but the game always crashes on my computer! I had my computer for about 4 months and it is ruining my computer. I tried playing this game online with real people, and all this game does is crash when im online or playing it by myself! I uninstalled and installed it over & over again because I thought something might of happened during installation but nope. This game has many bugs for me and is very fustrating.

Some Serious Problems

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My copy of this game was marginal when I first loaded it. There are a few distrubing errors: 1.) your squadron mates do not have any landing gear, 2.)the gunsight is significantly off-center, 3.)the bailout image flutters superimposed on the crashing plane, and 4.)the throttle starts up at 100% evey time. In addition, my game just recently stopped responding to key or button strokes when launching rockets, bombs, or drop tanks. Microsoft has tried to help (if you want to call them and spend 9 or 10 bucks reloading and discussing options) but assured me that all the games share the gunsight and landing gear problems. Is this quality?

Combat Flight Simulator 2 Recommended

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is magnificent. Graphics are execellent. Became very addicted to the game. I only wished that the Dauntless Torpedo bomber was also included in the aircraft inventory, and more missions were available (not the standard 30). Even though I am a Brit, I found the manual full of interesting American military/air history. Recommend it.

Total Domination

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What can i say other than this game takes it all. This game totally dominates the combat flight simulators of this world. I own the first WW2 Combat Flight Simulator also by Microsoft and i was greatly empressed with it, and at it's reality and everything, and really didn't know how it would get any more real than that was. Well it has and it's right there for you to own, and i believe it's worth every penny too! If you have any extra cash and a good machine to run it on, all i can say is buy it. I have a P3 800 with 128megs of RAM and it runs good except once in a great while one frame will stick or something, but that's definitely not a problem. If you have an awesome sound card and good speakers you will feel as if you are in the seat of the plane you are flying and you're actually getting shot at by the enemy. Oh the feeling, when i popped that game in for the first time and started playing it felt as if i went back into time and was actually up there flying, specially when i entered the heat of the battle. The sounds of bullets flying around you from the AA guns or the plane that is unfortunately glued to your tail, the sound of your own gun pumping out lead, and of course the flack ripping you aircraft to shreds. Whoever did the sound on that game should win a grammy! The sound just is amazing. The graphics are just as much so amazing and even maybe a little more. It's awesome the scenery the planes zooming out of nowhere and their engine blasting you away as they roar by! The flak blowing up in your face(if you've ever seen Pearl Harbor, the flak looks just like it duz in that movie, as well as the planes and tracers and everything else, such as the combat over open seas and your bullets shooting up spray in the ocean as you try to hit you oppenent out of the air! If that gives you any clue)It's just like life and i'm sure that anyone that flew in a fighter during WW2 would have to agree. It's just about as real as it gets and better. So buy it while you can, and remember it's definitely worth it. But i'm going for now as i am already having withdrawals!

Well-done, but demanding ...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you are a sim purist, history buff or a pilot, you will love this one. Those of us who prefer a good blend of playability with our realism will find the flight model too demanding. Be prepared to constantly fiddle with the trim controls to maintain straight-and-level flight, even with the auto-pilot on.

I have found this program to be somewhat unstable on my P-IV machine running Windows ME. It hasn't crashed often enough to be a serious problem, though.

Fun shoot em up flying game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a good WWII flying shooter with great graphics and easy controls. Works fantastic with my Sidewinder 2 Force Feedback stick on a PIII 1.1 GHz Win XP system. Also plays well on a 1.2 GHz Celeron system with integrated graphics running Win XP. This is not a game that you can play hours on end for days and feel like your getting challenged. Pull it out occasionally as a break from your other games and it will keep you occupied happily for several hours. At the current low price it's an easy addition to your gaming library.

Simply the best flight sim out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hello ,
As a real pilot for A A and owner of a Sopwith I can truly say that this is without a doubt the best combat flight sim ever. With all the add ons it can be as much as you want, combined with FS2002 you can't beat it.

Aerial Excellence, almost

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

This game is the final word (for now) on flight model realism and air combat eye candy. All the aircraft are depicted very accurately and the ordanance effects are done well. In fact, I really have nothing bad to say about the overall experience with one exception. If you have played Falcon 4.0 or even Red Baron II, you have become used to a very involved campaign. In other words, if you decide to deviate from your primary mission in those games, you can be involved in an action/s totally independant from your mission; in other words, the war is alive around you and dosen't depend on you to arrive at a result. Unfortunately CFSII followed CFS1 in one respect-although they call it a dynamic campaign, it is still a series of created missions strung together. However, it is still very hard to complete said missions on "hard" settings and the eye candy almost invites you to allow yourself to die to see what kind of aircraft damage you can absorb and what it's effects are. Overall, it is an improvement and it is a very good product.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good game. The missions are good and it is cool that what you do determines your next mission. I also like it because it never gets boring, after you compleate the campaigns you can download more of them. One thing i didnt like was that somtimes the computer contolled planes crashed into each other. Another thing i didnt like was your plane exploding just because you hit somthing very light. For example lets say you are flying close to a ship and hit it with the very tip of your wing, you will explode and that is totally not realistic. But for the most part this is a good game.

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