But the multiplayer is there if you want it.Īs far as detail and realism go, the game is not perfect. I cannot promise that your experience with other online players will be amazing every game has its trolls and with a game of this age there are many people playing it just to see what its limitations are.
This is exciting as there are not many games you can actually play online today from the early 2000's (without emulation and third party servers anyway). Steam's online services can be hit or miss at times, but in my personal experience it works well much more often than it doesn't. With the steam release the games multiplayer is back up as well. While this game may not hold a candle to its upcoming counterpart, its graphics hold up remarkably well to many other 2006 flight simulator games counterparts. One look at the steam page or Reddit forums will grant you a quick realization that not only does this game still have an active community (over a decade later) and there are groups of fans who enjoy flying by the relatively beautiful landscapes. Luckily for this tittle, the scenery is pretty decent. As fun as flying a plane can be on its own, the experience is truly defined by the world you are flying through.
This is a huge point in the games favor as one of the main draws of these simulator style games is the scenery. The first thing that I'd like to point at is that, of course depending on your hardware, this game can actually look really good, especially for 2006. Microsoft Flight Simulator X was released in 2006 originally and was later released on steam with some updates. With the recent announcement of the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, now is a great time to look back on one of the previous titles in the series: Microsoft Flight Simulator X.