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Looks great but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: February 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wow -- MS Flight Simulator sure has come a long way from the original versions -- the price was right and it looks great but... I feel a bit like I've acquired a really beautiful airplane for a steal of a price and I unlock the door and climb in only to find that -- there's no yoke! Being a laptop user I wish I would have known that a joystick was 'required' to have any sense of an intuitive flying experience. IMHO the price should have been higher and a joystick should have been bundled with the software. Unfortunately at this point I've got a great lookin' plane that I can't get off the runway.

Best Flight Sim played

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best Flight Sims. It has pretty good graphics except sometimes you see the graphics getting worse the farther you look. I say this is worth the$. It has great aircraft without loading any on but when you try to load third-party aircraft sometimes it makes no sense. I would have done a 5 except for the graphics, how hard it is to load aircraft and this may just be for me but when I'm takink off my plane drifst just enough to make taking off hard th the left. Those are basically my only complaints. I suggest you wait untill November though (this was written in 2006) for the seqquel, it will be called Fight Simulator X. I read it in issue 39 of PC pilot. It looks way improved.

Great Clean Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight by Microsoft is a great product. I added this to my collection right away after trying out over my friend's house. I really enjoyed this one.

A Good game overall

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I thought this was a very good game it was very accurate i thought using the instruments and the radios. the weather was just great and the graphics it takes alot of Mb on the computer though but i wish they can put real airlines in the game but i downloaded some airlines in my game. i want to be a pilot and know alot of flying some planes in this game. So overall i would buy this game it is very good.

The gold standard

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you're a veteran you know, if you're new to Flight Sim rest assured this is the most comprehensive flight learning game/tool available. Just make sure you have a computer that can handle the game. Take the hardware requirements seriously.

The sky's the limit!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

From the simplicity of computer assistance, to the real world feel of real flight you can't go wrong with this sim. All the good stuff at a far lower price that FS X.

FS2004 Is The Greatest!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been flying FS2004 for about 2 years now, and I just love it. I started flying sims when FS98 came out. It was ok, but I knew Microsoft could do better. The scenery was cheesy (especially the mountains), and the weather was anything but realistic. FS2000 was much better, but buggy. FS2004 has gotten most of the bugs out that hurt 2000 (I didn't buy FS2002). I love the weather, especially when downloading real-weather. And, the tons of add-on (freeware and payware) do make this sim "As Real As It Gets". I haven't tried FSX yet, mainly because I just don't have the computer power to run it properly. It's been getting some bad comments. Just remember that FS2004 also got bad press when it first came out. Now, almost everyone loves it. We just have to wait for the computers to catch up with the software.

Much better than FSX!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing this game for several years now (since it was originally released), and I have enjoyed every minute of it!! Unfortunately, the game CD was damaged, so instead of replacing it, I went out and bought FSX.

I found, to my dismay, that FSX won't work on my computer. I have a fairly good (though not great by today's standards) computer: XP-Professional with SP2, Intel Centrino Duo CPU @ 1.73GHz, 1GB of RAM, and 100GB hard drive that is only about 1/3 full. With these specs, FSX doesn't work very well. However, FX2004 works absolutley great!!

So I'm simply going to buy another FS2004, and hold on to FSX until I get a substantially better computer. If your computer specs are anything close to what mine are, I recommend you do the same.

Make no mistake: FS2004 ROCKS!!!!!!

What's Going On Here?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this flight sim from Amazon, and I really like it, in fact, it is a marvel what such a small amount of money will buy. I've had a lot of time in military airplanes as a crew member, and I have 300 hrs as a private pilot in the C152, C172, C182's, C210, and P-Arrow. I stopped flying due to a lapsed medical, so I was looking for an outlet. I find the flight sim landings to be quite realistic. One good thing is you can replay each landing to review how you managed your airspeed, rate of descent, and flight attitude. At first I had some problems running the program on my computer, so I installed a better graphics card, and that helped. But, when I try to move from one program module to another the program just disappears, and it takes several tries and/or computer reboots to get going again--I can't figure this out. I intend to install more computer memory, but I really doubt that this is the problem. In short, this is a great flight sim for the money, but I wonder who can run it without these irritations? I will keep this going as I really don't know that there is anything that runs better.

Bugs A-Plenty & Not Much New

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There is not a lot that I can say that hasn't already been stated by other reviewers. I've made the mistake of buying MS software fresh off of new releases and swore I would never do it again, due to glitches, bugs, lock-ups, etc... that were not caught in the 35 minutes of Beta testing done prior to release. I'm really upset with myself that I did it again. While anxious for what was a highly anticipated Flight Simulator, I ended up disappointed by the apparently lacking quality control put into the finished product. I agree with the other reviewers who said to wait for 3 to 6 months before buying; hopefully by then the patches will have corrected some problems. I encountered just too many to list in the space provided. Two stars for trying to emulate historic aircraft experiences.

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