flight sims fans, give your opinion !

[FuZion]

I'd have to say I have 3 faves (In alphabetical order):

- Birds of Prey, offers plenty of aircraft, places to fly & is stunning on an 060 with it's light shading (I hadn't seen this before on an Amiga), day time, night time, balls for undercarridge ;-) Never liked the cockpit view, too much dashboard & not enough sky view & shame it didn't have a shadow for the aircraft.

- F/A-18 Interceptor, literally THE pick up & play flight sim, fast smooth, simple, addictive. I only wish Jet Fighter 2 (The almost follow up) had been converted to the Amiga. Never done the Sub mission but still loved it. Even flying up to the "roof" :-D

- TFX, gorgeous looking with it's colours, shades, vapour trails & flying up into & down out of the clouds feels strangley satisfying. Quite smooth on a low-mid GFX quality setting with my 060 & plays just how I like my sims. Love it using a mouse & the free look camera in the cockpit... Is ANYONE out there able to create a WHD installer for this, stablising it a touch & maybe smoothing out the frame rate as it was kinda not quite finished & probably contains a messy routine? But who am I to know?) I know there's some clever bods out there. I found a so called update for this but it wasn't any safer to use than the CUAmiga release.

To me at least, these 3 actually play quite similar, they all have that kinda pick up & play feel, even BOP in a fashion.

I miss fun sims...

[Nick]

I wish there were enough people to get together to create a bloody good flight sim. I`d like to fly the planes I want. The Vulcan, YF-23, B-29, Lancaster, B-1b, B-2, A-10, B-52, Raytheon Starship 1, Beaufighter, Dornier 335....the list goes on. I want! :cry: All of these would be possible in the Microsoft sim (probably). :-(

Stupid reality!

[lionstorm]

Well I have to admit the best for me was strike commander 'cause it had everything : fun, storyboard, nice graphic for the time. But it is on a PC. Like F16, F18 and Falcon. Did not like so much birds of prey and co cuase they dont run fast.
What I wanted to know is an easy and maybe basic flight "sim" that anybody could play (without borned with a joystick in hand) with several players eventually cpu vs cpu (i have 2 A1200).
Lio

[lempkee]

flight sims....yummy,..

Tornado AGA  , Gunship2000 cd32 and coala!! ..
yes i know 2 of em are chopper games but i love em... and still its flight sims

btw to the guy who mentioned skychase... www.whdload.de  has it supported, works on my a1200bppc , so dig out yer orginal and start playing it....nice game indeed...

also f/18 interceptor was one damn good game..

for pc... well seriously it does have some neat sims, srike commander, apache , fighterduel pro (also on amiga) ....

flight simulator 2 on amiga is cool even...old but cool....jetstrike is still the best flight game ever though (amiga) ....by rasputin....on ecs,aga and cd32 machines (3 diff versions)

[Elwood]

flew under the Golden Gate Bridge was one of those "I'm really glad I bought an Amiga" moments

So true ...

[Nick]

The VERY first flight sim I ever played was Gunship on the C64. I loved that game. I had forgotton all about that. DOn`t asks me how, was it is on the top of my pile of Amiga games, in the corner of the room :-) I have played Gunship2000 in the past. I was a bit disspointed. Quite unrealistic in many ways. I do own Coala though. Even though when I install it I always put it under the Flight sim heading, I wouldn`t say it is a true sim. An arcade flight sim maybe.

I don`t know why I didn`t think of any of the helicopter flight sims. I don`t know why people treat helicopters as something which doesn`t come under the heading "aircraft" :-) Plane, helicopters....both capable of flight :-) So in theory they both would be flown in flight sims. :-D

@Lempkee

Hehe Jetstrike isn`t a sim. Very good, but not a sim. (though you didn`t say it was..I know :-)).