For a supremely chilled out and relaxed concept, there’s a lot to do.
The only thing my plane seemed happy about was that it was slowly drifting on the wind to face west, forcing me to right my course every few minutes. Admittedly, I totally skipped any of the tutorials, so my trip was more like a passenger in a Hollywood action film stepping up to the plate when the pilot has been taken ill after having the fish for dinner, diving into the menus and checking controls, getting constantly beeped at and warned about flying too high, too low, too fast, too slow, too steep, too level. So perhaps the first surprise for me was just how involved flying actually is. I’ve not really touched flight simulators before, my airborne escapades typically taking place in a fighter jet or… X-Wing. Where do I want to fly when I have the whole world at my fingertips, though? Well… as I’m sure literally every computer-literate person did when Google Earth first appeared, I decided to fly over my home, taking off from Gatwick Airport and taking a sharp turn south toward Shoreham, Brighton and the coast. Let’s assume that the process will be much more concise and trouble-free when Microsoft Flight Simulator comes to Xbox. Then there are the joys of going through numerous troubleshooting steps, restarting his PC time and again, of reinstalling drivers and core runtimes – the joys of PC gaming. He could also tell you about the lovely splash screens for Xbox Game Studios and Asobo before the game crashes. I mean, Dom could tell you about the torturous install process, with the initial app download followed by a further in-game install of over 90GB that is torturous in duration thanks to each file being downloaded and then decompressed in sequence, stretching out the install far further than speedy internet connections would otherwise be able to handle. While we technically had access to the game over the weekend prior to today’s release, we found it impossible to review. As you will have seen over the last year or so, it can look absolutely stunning.
A recreation of the entire world that you can explore at your leisure, whether you want to put on a faux-airliner captain’s hat and take on some intercontinental flights, or just hop in a prop plane while wearing your pyjamas. Microsoft Flight Simulator is remarkable.
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