Rating: 
Summary: Give This Sim A Break...
Review: While searching for a good flight sim to add to my library, I read customer reviews of Falcon 4.0 on Amazon.com, was disappointed to see so many low ratings it got, then decided I should give up the 20 bucks to find out for myself.I haven't scratched the surface of this sim yet as far as missions and AI, although I know what to expect, having flown versions 2.0 and 3.0. I came back to put in a good word for Falcon 4.0. However it seems David Smallwood's review beat me to the punch! I second his opinion.... Let's put it this way: If you're serious about recreating a hyper-realistic flying experience and not just playing a game, this is the sim to get. Granted, it may have been buggy before; I don't know. I downloaded the upgrade only a week after original purchase. It makes it work. Period. The game is gorgeous, there are scads of infinately detailed switches and dials to set, the flight model is like butta', the views are beautiful, the sounds are terrific, the interface is good and the price is a no-brainer. And you know what's the best part of this program? These days when you're lucky to get a 6-page installation guide with gaming software, MicroProse assembles the best set of documentation I've ever seen in the classic 'Buy the manual, get the software free' style: almost 300 pages tucked in a 'Squadron Leader Special Edition' three-ring binder with laminated tabbed sections dividers, a separate cadet quick-learning guide, a beautiful reference chart, and full-color map of Korea.... all for the ridiculously low price of under $19.95! My advice if you're addicted to flight: pick this box up and getcher butt in flight school. It's going to take a lot of studying. For the record, my PC is a 450MHz, with 128MB SDRAM, an 8MB videocard with Voodoo 2 3Dfx accelerator and MS Sidewinder Pro Force Feedback joystick. With this configuration I can run all the settings at full bore and it's sweet.
Rating:
Summary: A Stellar Performer!! Great sim!
Review: You know you're on to something in a flight simulation when some of your daydreams revolve around the next opportunity to fly the Falcon 4.0 instead of the largely lascivious prattle we guys normally ponder. Make no mistake about it, it has been fraught with a constellation of infuriating little bugs. I invite your attention to my little incident of being inattentive to ATC vectoring commands and being vectored to a North Korean airfield. Having said that, I can launch into a long string of superlatives in praising the textured graphics, mission editing, flight model, sound and lots and lots of other astonishingly great stuff. Needless to say, I am greatly enamoured. I am running 512 MG of SDRAM on a P4 at 2.13GHz. with a 64MB DDR Hercules 4500 with Kyro chip on a 21in. monitor. When I crank everything up to its max the experience is truly cosmic. I can see, however that if you are running anything more austere, you will need to trim the performance back on the sim (a little)as well as kill some of your background apps. But it will be well worth it! Don't miss this one!!!
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