Description Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 is the new edition of Microsoft's highly realistic, graphically advanced flight simulator, the best-selling PC flight simulation game ever. Flight Simulator 2002 is a revolutionary release in the history of the Flight Simulator franchise. It includes real-time, interactive Air Traffic Control, stunning new scenery and visual effects using Microsoft's new "AutoGen" technology and new airplanes - including the Boeing 747-400 and Cessna's highly successful Caravan in both land and amphibious configurations.
Summary: Great flight sim! I have logged hundreds of hours with CFS1 and CFS2, so I wasn't too sure about whether I needed another one. I am glad I got it, though. The best thing about it that I've found so far is being able to find airports near to home or other places you are familiar with and do fly to or from them. The planes fly very realistically. They look good and the scenery looks good. The air traffic control feature is also really good.
The game takes up a lot of hard drive space (it comes on 3 cds). You also need a pretty fast computer for it to play well.
Summary: Excellent simulation. Havent tried FS 2004 but why spend 55-60 bucks when you can get this for probably 30 or less now. Also if you dont have the latest hardware this is definitly the choice.
Summary: Being a student pilot, I really enjoy this game. There are very few computer/video games out there that a person can learn from, and I believe FS2002 is one of them. Thanks to this simulator, I learned how to use navigaion equipment such as the VOR and ADF better! Although I fly older aircraft, the concept remains the same. This is an excellent game- from gameplay to graphics to sound, PC flying cannot get much better. Although simulating real flight is almost impossible, FS2002 comes very close.
Summary: Actually, the only reason I even considered to get FS2002, was becuase I found that at home I wanted to play FS2000, but the disks were stratched and it wouldnt recognise, anyway, this brang me to fs 2002, which is hell of a lot better.
tho, even tho the world apparently ditched the concorde becuase of risks or sumthing like that, i wish that MS would have included a Concorde in the game. Thus would destroy slogan: As Real as it Gets. Damn it.!
so, yeah im pleased, down here in new zealand is like being at the bottom of a mountain, we dont get the new-stuff still every1 else has them, like, X-box was released like, 1 year and a bit in the USA b4 coming to onz, how annoying. and x-box live!, is coming in like a year. (just examples)
well, cool game, good graphics, sweet sound, crap damage reality, tho i did read down the page that some1 said to inseret a line into notepad, so i ll try that out. later.
Summary: Flight simulator 2002 is a great game. There, I've said it. I bought the professional edition at its usual (high) price almost expecting a typically cold piece of microsoft applications programming, but what I actually discovered is that Flight Simming is actually really, really good fun.
You see I was getting troubled.. as a long time virtual combat fighter pilot I considered myself pretty good at flying. I could take off and land WWII era fighter planes easily, and could do no ends of stunts, yanking my virtual airframe around the virtual skies with reckless abandon. Real pilots, of course, learn to walk before they can run.. I think the first thing I ever did in a sim was shoot the guns up the runway.
Even the most ruthless combat simulator provides all sorts of navigational aids, and theres never any interaction with ground control on landing and taking off. In short, allthough I was enjoying my 'Bank and Yank' antics, I felt that what I was doing bore little or no relation to 'aviation'. I'm not some sort of gun-happy megalomaniac.. I fly simulators because I like planes, and I enjoy the challenge. After much humming and harring over the ridiculous price, I finally bought FS2002 as a solution to my problem. Am I satisfied? Read on...
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