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the best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 48
Date: September 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this is the best game i have ever tested in my entier life. i really like it cause its got REALLY good graphics and sfx.

A good game or a well-made hybrid?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 29
Date: September 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After reading all of the reviews of Microsoft's new sim: Combat flight simulator 3, I realized that this sim has everything I wished for.

Right now I own IL-2 Sturmovik and Apache Havoc. CFS3 is a hybrid (as I like to call it) of both of these other sims.

CFS3 has the ability to let you see the war go on and be affected by your actions(as seen on Apache Havoc). It also uses the DVC as a standard view cockpit(as seen in IL-2 Sturmovik).

I give a lot of props to those who gave there time into making this outstanding simulator.

CFS 3 Best sim ever?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 29 / 49
Date: October 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big sim fan I have all the combat flight sims so far and a few of the flight sims (combatfs 1,2 fs2000,2002) from what i have seen and read about this game its every cobat fligt simulators dream. 34 flyable aircraft bombers fighters torpedeo bombers and jet fighters! it has 3D sencery and alot of special features. Tail Gunner 2 if you have combatfs 1 you'll know what im talking about. Tail gunner 2 was a programe for cfs1 which let you use the rear,waist,tailand frontal guns on a bomber but it stopped you from using rockets. so what steveiy did (the guy who made tg2) was ask microsft to include tailgunner in the latest version of combat fs and there is a virtual gunner cockpit for it. Take it from me it looks stunning.Forget of the panel as we know it today because evrything is a virtual cockpit. No more 2D panels. You heard me mention fighter jets thats right they've been so knid to include fighter jets they are: Me262 A, Gloster Meteor, P-80 and the De Halivand Vampire they also included a little thing called role playing which i think is fun. You create a pilot give him a name a background and how he got into the aviation industry. He can be killed. Thats about all i can tell you for im running out of sapce and i could go on forever.But if you enjoyed 1and2 you will love 3. buy it!!!!

Give it a year

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: October 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

give this game some time before third-party developers make it playable - buy it in a year.

Don't Buy cfs3 or you will wish you didn't.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 19
Date: October 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have cfs1 & cfs2 already and my hopes were high that Microsoft would deliver in cfs3, the improvement they boasted of. But other than the nice clouds cfs3 is not nearly as nice as either cfs2 or even cfs1. The cities in cfs1 have better graphics. In multiplayer there is no lobby anymore, you can't land to repair your plane. The planes fly-ability have taken a step or two backwards. You can not open a second window like you could in cfs2 to watch your back. I am sad that Microsoft thinks so little of its loyal cfs gamers. The instrument panel is weak and the instruments look less real than in cf1 which did a pretty good job on their airspeed indicators, altimeters, compasses and so on.

I hope they fix it fast.

Great Expectations; Poor Delivery

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: October 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If I had only played CSF1, I would have given this a higher review. But I have been playing IL-2 and now know that IL-2 is the superior combat flight simulator, bar none! CFS3 does have interresting ground vehicles to attack. Aircraft flight dynamics appear unrealistic, too simple. Scenery is FLAT, tree & object detail is very nice but where is all the raised mesh detail I would have expected? MicroSoft did ok, not good and definately not great. I'll give CFS3 2 stars and go back to playing UbiSoft's IL-2. "C ya in the clouds" Mtn.

State of the Art in Combat Flight Sims

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 18
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I know I'm dating myself, but my first flight simulator really was the old wireframe flight simulator you could play on an 8086 processor back in 1987. It even had a rinky dink little combat mode where you could go head to head with another biplane in a WWI dogfight. Simple stuff, but a blast.

Since then I progressed to Red Baron on the 286 (one of the best flight sims ever made), Aces Over Europe, Falcon, Red Baron II (one of the buggiest games ever), Stealth Fighter, and so on. But the modern jet fighter sims with their fly-by-wire feel and shoot-from-ten-miles-away combat left me cold. So I've returned to my roots in the great wars of the 20th century by purchasing CFS3. And I haven't found much to dissapoint me yet.

First, the graphics are simply gorgeous. The planes are incredibly well modeled and half the time I find myself forgetting to shoot and simply starring at the screen. The ground is well done, too, especially from altitude, and still looks remarkably good close up (certainly much better then most, although I have yet to try IL2 which I hear is pretty damn good as well).

18 flyable plane models, with a total of 34 variants, makes for alot of flexibility and replayability, and alot to learn. So far I've flown several from each of the major represented powers (the US, Germany and Britain) and found each plane acted in accordance to my expectations. The Spitfire is remarkably agile and graceful, easy to fly and hard to stall. The BF109 is fast and maneuverable, almost TOO damn fast at times it seems. The mustang is a bit more difficult to handle then either of those two, but still a potent weapon and damnably fast. The Crusader is one heck of a tough, fast tank in the air, and with it's multiple stations you can switch between (5 machine gun locations, a pilot's station AND a bombadier site) you can have an awful lot of fun in it do anything BUT piloting (but the pilot also gets access to four fuselage mounted MG's for straffing attacks which is astoundingly fun).

Ground attacks are well modeled and have a general authentic feel to them. While trucks and jeeps and trains aren't as graphically beautiful as the airplanes you fly, all are recognizable and distinguishable from a distance. Shoot up the first truck in a convoy to block the rest, then cruise back and forth to take the rest out. The explosions could look a little nicer, but are still quite satisfying.

Damage models are fantastic. I overshot an enemy BF109 and rammed into his tail causing a catestrophic failure of my poor Spitfire's airframe. Switching to an external view, I saw the wreckage of my plane plummeting nose first towards the ground, both wings ripped off and tangled metal struts jutting from the frame where flames spewed back along the fuselage. I've torn off landing gear, bent props by flying too low, damaged flaps, and of course gotten shot up. The variety of damage is amazing, and the flight model accurate reflects what happens to your rig.

I've only just begun the career mode, but the thought of having an effect on the ground war is wetting my desire to play. I'll perhaps write more about that in the future.

Negatives so far have been: lack of radio chatter in the game making the war seem a bit emptier then it should. Game crashes when attempting to change video resolutions. Slow load times. No other major bugs yet.

Overall this is an incredible game. Now excuse me, it's almost time to load up, I have a critical attack on an enemy airbase at dawn that I have to get ready for....

yawwwwnnnn

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

zzzzz what a sleeper. Based on the millions MS put into the pre-marketing of this "3" release, I was expecting a great deal more. The a/c just don't fly anything like the real thing. I know, I fly a P51D. Controls are sloppy, unrealistic, and frankly there should be some compensation with targeting when the flight sim itself is so poor. What this means is you'll be making dozens of passes at one target - if you set the unlimited ammo to "on". But that doesn't count for missles and bombs - once you empty the rack you're done.

I don't know. It seems all they did on this release was re-arrange everything. The clouds are awesome I might add, about the only improvement. All else went the other direction...

Wow, how bad is this game?!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's harder to fly a plane in this sim than it is in real life. ...

BEST FLIGHT SIM EVER !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great its fun and easy to get into graphics are really good game play is hot ground level is amazing trees are not 2D thank you now the bad this game take a really good pc to run it lots of ram and a geforce 4 ti or something to get the best graphics and performnce out of this game if u get this game or have this game turn down the graphics to 2 and see if it looks differnt then when u have the graphic at 3 if u get or have the game u will know what i mean but other than that the game is hard core sim fan might not like it as much cuz it can feel like an arcade game at times but who care the game is fun i think u should use a 1.2ghz or higher

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