The game is heaving with assists and accessibility options, meaning you can make it as hardcore or as laid back as you want. If you're new to the flight sim genre, the good news is that you can still play and enjoy Microsoft Flight Simulator-and you don't need a fancy flight stick either. Having the entire planet at your fingertips is exhilarating, and I've lost hours to just cruising aimlessly over mountains, deserts, forests, volcanoes, and fjords, admiring the scenery and watching the dynamic weather change around me. For me, the thrill of Microsoft Flight Simulator is picking somewhere at random, jumping in a plane, and flying. And there will be more of these in the final game for anyone who likes a bit of structure. In the preview build I played there were a few missions, including long distance endurance flights and landing challenges. I feel a constant sense of wonder when I play Microsoft Flight Simulator, whether I'm flying past places I've visited in real life, or corners of the world I never knew existed. Flying across Norway's Lofoten Islands, the Himalayas, Iceland's Jökulsárlón glacier, the Mojave Desert, and other remote areas is awe-inspiring-and a reminder of just how vast and beautiful our planet really is. Soaring over the immense Australian Outback in a tiny single propeller plane, the sheer size-and emptiness-of the place really struck me. In real life it takes about 8 hours to fly from London to New York City in a Boeing 747-and it will in the game too The important thing is that, from a height, the layout of any city you happen to be familiar with will be correct, and you'll feel like you're really flying over it. But again, you'll rarely be close enough to notice this during regular play. In many cases the algorithm tries to guess what a building looks like and gets it totally wrong. Others, like the small city where I live in the north of England, aren't quite right. Bigger cities have been generated using photogrammetry data, meaning they look just like the real thing. Some parts of the world have been crafted by hand, including airports and recognisable landmarks like the Pyramids, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Tokyo Skytree. The level of control you have over every aspect of the simulation is wild. You can tweak other stuff mid-flight too, including the weather (down to individual cloud layers), the time of day, and even how much fuel your plane is carrying or the body weights of the pilot and passengers. Luckily you can bring up a menu and skip parts of the flight, so if you want to jump straight to the descent into JFK without having to cross the entire Atlantic Ocean in real-time, you can. In real life it takes about 8 hours to fly from London to New York City in a Boeing 747-and it will in the game too. Check out some brand new gameplay footage in the video aboveĪnd it's all to scale as well.
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