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X-Plane 8.0 (DVD-ROM) | List Price: $39.99
Discount Price: $34.90
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Platform: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Brand: Atari
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2004-11-16
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Features: - Try out both subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter to the supersonic Concorde
- Fly 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry -- plus hundreds more downloaded from the Internet
- Customize the textures, sounds and instrument panels for your own airplanes -- or redesign the flight panels of pre-existing planes
- Detailed failure-modeling with 35 systems that can fail randomly -- fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment
- Variable weather patterns, from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts -- rain, snow and clouds are also available
not great [Posted on 2006-11-04]
took over 9 gigs of space to install, plane detail is very poor, not worth the money,
You need a supercomputer to play this game [Posted on 2006-11-29]
This program is just too much work to be fun. Unless you have a ultra high end computer with a massive amount of RAM and a massive amount of video RAM save your money. I have an iMac Dual Core with 2GB RAM and 256MB of Video RAM and had trouble getting this program to run with any of the high end scenery and graphics touted on the box. I returned this program as well as the joystick I bought. I wanted to have fun and enjoy some flying. I already have a full time job. I don't want to have to change all of the settings on my computer every time I want to run this sim. Nothing on the outside of the box gives the user any warning about the troubles of achieving the great graphics it touts. I feel just plain misled. It is very promising but the computers necessary to run it properly are just not all that common. In the end I am very disappointed.
Buyer Beware! [Posted on 2006-12-29]
X-Plane customer service is horrible. Contrary to their web site, the free lifetime customer support is support with an attitude. No one there wants to talk to you, no one wants to believe that their product might have problems, basically, they don't care about the customers. Beware customer - Beware!
Should You Buy X-plane? [Posted on 2007-01-22]
If you are like me, the reviews on X-Plane probabally will make you more confused than ever. To help you make an informed choice I have addressed the questions that most complicated to process for me.
Is is the latest version?
This is the same verion you buy in the store (8.0). You will need to download the free update from the x-plane website to bring it up to date to version 8.50.
Is the scenery up to date?
USA scenery only, if you would like the entire world on 7 DVD's you can upgrade latter for a reduced price or buy the 7 DVD version from the x-plane site. The scenery detail is no better in the world-wide version, just more extensive. HINT: It is cheaper to buy this version on Amazon and upgrade to the global version.
Do I need a super computer to run X-Plane?
No. Frame rates are typically much better than Flight Simulator X and display options are great.
In summery this simulator was well worth the money and is full of many advanced options... Not a game but a great tool for a very serious flight simmer or real world pilot. No graphical interface for the menus, but after some tinkering it's easy to get where you need to go (i.e., picking your plane and location). Although I would not suggest this to somone new to simulators or flying, if you own Flight Simulator and want to have another great experience with thousands of different airplanes, give X-Plane a try.
More than i was expecting [Posted on 2007-03-18]
great sim.
more than i expected the program to be.
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