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THIS SIMULATOR IS NOT ONLY PLAYABLE, BUT VERY REALISTIC!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

After piloting each aircraft in Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator, I came to the conclusion that you can't get any closer to the real thing than this! Being a World War II history buff, I have seen a lot of dog-fighting documentary films actually taken by the pilots in action! This simulator recreates this action with a realism that can't be compared to anything else. Just make sure that you have a good 3-D Graphics video card in your computer. WAY TO GO MICROSOFT! GREAT SIMULATOR!

Like Meatloaf Every Tuesday Night...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: December 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is the game I bought a new CD-ROM, Voodoo 3D accelator card and almost a new $1,500 PC to play! It chokes on my old 133 MHz unless everything graphical is set to wire-frame-and-polygon scale.

Initially very fun, until you play it a week or so. Then you realize that the things that make computer games really fun -- role playing where your squadron gains more experience -- is missing from this flight sim. Sure, the dog fights are fun, but this game tends to give you that ghostly 'I'm all alone in Sim Land' feel after while. The campaigns are long strings of same-o missions. A case in point: After you take off, you can skip to the action. Pretty soon you find you never fly anymore, just skip to the action, fight, and skip back home. That gets old fast and pretty soon you'll delete this ol' dog off your hard drive and look for something with more depth.

combat flight sim

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this is a GREAT game that i would recommend to all WW2 enthusiasts. sure it has certain shortcommings but overall it is excellent. the two greatest things about this game are: online play (on the zone and thru IP) and the expandability of the game w/ aircraft, missions, and scenery. Ive been playing it since Feb 99 and have yet to get sick of it. The are over 100 websites devoted to it so they must have done something right. Try it and youll be hooked too. P>S>Get the Sidewinder Joystick youre gonna need it

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: January 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Have had this game for some time--feel it is a classic. I recently bought Combat Flight Simulator 2 (pacific theater)--am already bored with it. The origional has more class if somewhat less techicaly sophisticated. My disk is pretty much worn out and is now hard to re-install if I ever un-install it. May have to buy a new copy! I don't believe those who say it is too easy. I have never survived a full campaign and am a moderately decent pilot--score somewhat above average when taking on human oponents on the internet. This game is like a good book that you keep on your bookshelf for years and re-read now and then. If Janes is truly better than this game, as some reviewers say, I am really going to have to take a serious look at that game!

fun, but not for long

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I make a hobby of owning and playing flight simulators, and can really appreciate both realism and playability. While this game has a little of both, it left me wanting so much more.

Gamers familiar with other WWII titles like the older Aces over Europe and the newer Janes WWII Fighters will feel like they're flying a paper airplane after a few flights in this sim. While a fantastic attempt at simulating the flying experience was made, and succeeded in most points, there's just something about the whole flight package that leaves me wanting more. After a flying a few missions with this game, I go right back to WWII Fighters for the whizzing bullets, radio chatter, textured clouds and flak, groaning and creaking airframe during a tight maneuver, spinning propeller blurring your view ... In short, while we can't expect any one game to give us everything, I still expected a game touted as one of the "flight simulator" series to give me more realism.

As for playability and "fun", the game has a little more. Don't let anyone tell you it's an easy game either. Playing the missions from either side gives you a pretty good feel for the campaigns fought so long ago. If your team (axis or ally) felt the crunch, or was flying high, you can really feel it here. Damage-to-flight is pretty realistic, and thought it may seem that your fighter is taking more damage than it should be allowed to, you're quick meat in a dogfight with so many control surfaces and avionics all shot up.

If I were to sum this game up, it's fun, but lacks the "feeling" of realism some of us purists out there are looking for.

Great planes, iffy game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The flight models are superb, the graphics are quite good, the campaigns are boring, and the capabilities are too limited. It's a fine piece of software for what it is, but European Air War is a lot more fun, and has more of an "authentic" feel -- AND you can have more than ten planes in the sky at the same time, which is How It Really Was Back Then.

Great Fun, Little Realism.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: December 07, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Although the Dog-Fights are really fun, it tends to get a little boring when you've beaten the game 10 times on maximum difficulty. The single missions keep it alive, but have the same overall flaw. Quick combat tends to be the same way because there is no randomness. 1-9 planes will come at you and as soon as you kill all of those, 1-9 more will come at you again. Also, although the planes look like they have there own shape, they are really blocks to the computer, which means you may hit things which you really didn't. However for a game created in 1997 it's pretty good.

P.S. it is really cool when you see a plane go down in a fire ball.

EXCELLENT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I found this game to be excellent in every aspect. The aircraft, scenery, and missions were detailed and well planned. It is true that after a while the game got a little boring, but more addons keep coming out that let you fly in the Pacific, China, Italy, and North Africa. Each addon gives you even more planes, missions, and challenges. I would really recommend this game to anyone who wants to get a WW2 flight simulator.

Difficulties Playing & Lack of Support

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

A WWII air combat experience!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You can fly over many airplanes. The Focke-Wulf is German, Join with many inside the Spitfire and shoot down German bombers invading England. You can also do missions and recreate The Battle of Britan, and The Battle over Eroupe. CFS also has mulitplayer suport to zone.com. Here is some tips for those who has CFS but dosn't know how to play at zone.com. 1. Go to zone.com. 2. Go to the button CD-Rom. 3. Click on the game you have. 4. if you don't have a net passport then SIGH UP! 5. Register for fun on zone.com. 6. HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!

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