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Really great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun. The planes you get to fly are awesome. The graphics are OK but the gameplay is great.

best sim so far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I OWN TWO PREVIOUS VESIONS MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR 95,98 AND NOW 2004 A CENTURY OF FLIGHT.IN MY OPINION MICROSFT HAS DONE A BETTER JOB WITH THE 2004 VERSION,MORE AIRCRAFT TO FLY A REALY GREAT FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR ROD ,IMPROVED ATC,ONE THING THOUGH LETS HOPE THAT WHEN 2006 COMES OUT(IT'S ALL HUSH HUSH AT MICROSOFT HQ)THAT THEY WILL AT LEADT ADD NEWER AIRCRAFT MY FAVORITE BIENG THE AIRBUS A321 WHICH I FLEW TO EUROPE ON,AND THE CITATION X BY CESSNA.

WARNING: Won't work on a few one-year-old PCs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a student pilot, and so was looking forward to practicing with 2004. I have heard a lot of good things about it, and was told there was really no need to go with FSX. So I bought it. When I installed it, I kept getting the splash screen, but the software didn't start. After much searching online, I found out that there are a lucky few of us (less than 10%) where the game glitches and just won't start. BUT, yes there is a way to get around it. First I downloaded an update and installed it. Still no go. Then I downloaded -- and was forced to print out -- page after page after page of single spaced instructions. Each step had a series of substeps, followed by, "If this doesn't work, go to step X." I went through PAGES of instructions, only finally to get to a point where my computer didn't respond with one of the given choices. I was completely stuck. No online or land line help knew what to do. It's too bad. I hear it's good. I'm buying X Deluxe because it actually works on my computer, though I don't have the capabilities of using the new stuff on the new version. At least I can fly. I'm giving 2004 to my flight instructor's son.

Flight Simulator 2004

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: October 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think is a great Flight Simulator, thera are a few game like this one, I'll been waiting for next one, I'll hoping that it is far better.

Fab

How can anyone like this atrocious product?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yes, I installed it and got it to work. I have a decent (although not the fastest) system (would have been state-of-the-art in 2005). The result? Graphics are terrible (annoying pixelation even with antialiasing). Texturing is amateurish (I teach graduate computer graphics and even my students write better renderers). But, what would one expect in exchange for an Andrew Jackson, right? Right, however, the most humiliating, demeaning, and frustrating experience is MS' paranoia and total disdain for its customers: you HAVE TO keep the last CD inserted when you start the program (still better than the new FSX `registration'). The CD's themselves are copy protected (so, if you scratch your copy, be prepared to pay for another one). I could have used simple duplication tools to back my copy up but why? This junk still goes into the trash bin! Check out FlightGear instead: it works better, maybe crashes just as often, lacks a few bells and whistles but it supports most of the same hardware (CH products yoke and pedals, nVidia and ATI cards etc.) runs on ALL major operating systems (including Windows XP), has better graphics, and, best of all, it is free! Between being frustrated with MS greed and arrogance and tweaking my computer, I choose the computer any day.

Consider not buying this product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 29
Date: March 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In typical Microsoft fashion, my computer crashed four times while using Flight Simulator 2004. I have more than enough memory and processor speed, so that can not be the problem. All of the computer minimums to run the program have been exceeded, but alas it crashes every time I try to run the program...within the first three minutes.

It has taken me all of a Friday night to try to figure this out. A night away from my family. Why does Microsoft continue to sell products that do not run on thier own platforms? This is not the first time I have had trouble trying to get a Microsoft aviation simulator to work. The last one, Air Combat, Battle for Europe, had the same shortcommings. I did not get that to work either. I guess I'm the sucker for buying into the second aviation product from Microsoft.

But what really gets me is this: after downloading the four disks onto my computer (four disks of worthless, computer crashing code that lasts a mere 240 seconds) at a cost of more than thirty dollars, Mircosoft made it a condition that I sign-up for a .net address with them. This is wrong on so many levels. For those of you reading this too young to realize it, business has not always been conducted like this. Patrons of a particular product or company did not always have to perform, other than payment, for the vendors of the product being purchased. As a patron things were not demanded of you after purchasing the product as Microsoft is demanding of its customers who purchase Flight Simulator 2004.
As a condition of use, AFTER the software was purchased, I was forced to sign-up for a .net address with Microsoft. I gave the company over $30 and was forced to perform for them by way of joining a service I do not want and answering a survey that I did not have the time to answer. All of this or my new game that I paid money for would not work.
The game did not work anyway. It crashed my computer with fatel errors four times in a row. I got less than three minutes of flight time each time I started the program.
It is important to note, again, that I have more than the minimums req. to run this program. My system is sound (or it was before I loaded this worthless program on it).
Again, Microsoft has produced a program that sounds terrific and falls horribly short. With Flight Simulator 2004 Microsoft forces one to join where there is no desire or need to do so, creates instability on otherwise stable computers and charges over $30.00 to do it.
As a private pilot, I could not wait to get this program loaded. I first heard about it while getting a "VFR Not Recomended" weather breifing. It was suggested that I download the latest weather, as I could not fly VFR, and fly to my destination on the Flight Simulator, 2004. I ran to buy it. What a mistake! If I added the $35.00 to the $55.00 I spent on the first flight sumulator program I purchased form Mircosoft, I would have a hour of flight time payed for in a Cessna 182.

Save your money for flight lessons. Do not but this program.

Gary Toler

fs2004

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 85
Date: June 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

its great although microsoft has came along way but fs2004 hasnt shown improvement. only the atc and the addition of aircrafts are improved. i was a beta tester for fs2004. I will only buy this product beacuse i want to keep flying with pilots and soon fs2002 will die out like fs2000 once fs2002 came out.

.:| spend your money on something else |:.

REALLY HARD

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: November 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

its a very confusing game...the graphics on my computer pretty good.. i gave it about 3 hours 2 learn and couldnt do it....but it could just be me...plus i havent played it since so to me it was a waste of money

Good Game, Not As Good As Expected

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Kid Review
This game was great! It was given 4 stars for how much fun I had. This was because it was not as fun as Microsoft promoted it to be. Still, the airplane selection is great, and the weather is very good. I havn't yet got the training in it yet though. A must buy for Flight Sim entheists!

Fun game but needs improvement as far as the way the gauges look and the plane operates

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Although the learning references are excellent and very informative, the planes and there actual methods of operation suck by reality standards. If you are a true boeing fan and like to fly the "heavies" you will pinch yourself for a reality check when you try out the PMDG lineup of 737s and 747s. You will never want to go back to the microsoft planes after you try PMDG for the first time! Although the jets are very complicated to start up and prepare for flight, they are so worth it! You will very rarely have engine stalls and the actual simulation itself is as authentic as authentic can get. If you're interested check out precisionmanuals.com. This game is necessary as prerequisite for playing PMDG so if you only want to fly the PMDG planes by the way this review sounds, you will still need to install MSFS2004 first. But if you only want to fly the MSFS planes, I say good luck with trying.

To make learning how to operate the gauges and buttons easier be sure to check into the Microsoft flight simulator 2004 strategy guide. That is the only way you will ever learn to get it up and then get it back down successfully time and time again

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