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Summary: The Best Game for PC
Review: This by far the best game for pc. Discard all bad reviews for this game!! Runs great on my Dell Dimension 2350 P4 2.2ghz 512Mb and Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 graphics card. BUY THIS GAME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Great overall game
Review: this game is awesome i love the dogfights the bombing runs are excellent the realism on it is unnelievable. great game i recomend it to all.
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Summary: Impossible
Review: This game is nearly impossible to load. My PC met all the minimum requirements +, and the game won't load without a new video card. Forget it!
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Summary: Good flight sim, but lacking dimension
Review: This is a pretty good combat flight simulator, but it lacks the dimension of a really good campaign mode. There is no story to follow and the missions you accomplish don't really seem to have an affect on the movement of the battlefield front. If you are looking for hours of fun flying this is a good game for you, but not if you are looking for a campaign type game.
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Summary: Host of compatibility issues
Review: This is a technically great game if you are not just into dog fighting like most combat flight simulators and would like some action on the surface (bombing and strafing). There are a variety of missions offered by this flight simulator which greatly adds to the realism of the European Theater of Operations in World War II. Microsoft's CFS3 offers single mission mode where you can tailor a mission to suit your preferences or you may choose a campaign style game.If you are looking for modern day jetfighters this is not a game for you as there are no missile equipped fighters or bombers. Most planes have either piston engines or radial engines. Platforms included in this game are some combat aircrafts built during 1941-1946 but also include some "what if" fighters. Three major nations are represented including Germany, United Kingdom and the United States. On the downside this game has a whole host of compatibility issues involving video cards. While some video cards are forced to operate in "safe mode" which triggers minimum video settings (awful graphics and frame rate, terrain is essentially featureless) other systems with incompatible graphics cards will not launch the game. The following graphics card equipped systems will not work with CFS3:
Oxygen cards, Premedia cards, Savage (2000, 3D, 3D S3), Nvidia Riva, Intel 752, 810, 815 and 740 series integrated graphics chipsets, Rendition and Voodoo (Voodoo 1, 2 and Rush). The following cards will run in safe mode or have other display aberrations when running CFS3:
3DFX Voodoo series (3, 4 and 5 series cards), ATI (All-In-Wonder 128, Rage Fury Maxx, Radeon 9700 Pro, Radeon 7200, rage 128 Ultra), Matrox (G400, G4750 and G550), Nvidia Integrated Mainboard chipsets, Nvidia ( Vanta TNT, GeForce 4 TI4600, GeForce2 MX/MX 400 GeForce3 Ti200), S3 Savage 4 Chipsets and S3 Pro Savage DDR, PowerVR Kyro and Kyro 2 cards, Aopen 3d Navigator PA700, Asus V7700, 3dProphet 4000, Trident Cyber Aladin. It is also worthwhile running CFS compatibility test at http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/combatfs3.aspx#support to make certain that your system is compatible with the game.
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Summary: pure crap
Review: this is just a complete waste of money. if you like 10 year old graphics-quality, this is the game for you. Even with a brand new system, and the low-quality graphics, it still has herky-jerky flight characteristics. I really don't know what to think about the positive reviews?! It's just bizarre...
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Summary: impossible game
Review: this simulation seems like a throw back to a time when flight sims were in there infancy.lifeless cockpits,repetitive missions,not much fun at all.if microsoft is planing a cfs 4 i suggest they review il-2 sturmovik,this is the benchmark of combat flight sims.my advice is to save your money or buy il-2 instead.
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Summary: Just how bad can a Combat Flight Simulator be?
Review: To answer the above question, simply purchase and play Microsoft's newest, CFS3. Just kidding. Don't buy this program under any circumstances. CFS3 is so bad, I really think MS ought to send a refund to everyone who's already bought it. Since I'm sure you'd rather hear WHY it's so bad, instead of just a rant, here's the short list: 1) The aircraft models are done terribly; they look like $... snap-together models, built by a 4 yr old
2) The interior models (the virtual cockpits) look like a rough draft, nowhere near the quality of product MS put out even with Combat Flight Simulator 2 (which was excellent).
3) The world to fly in; also horribly done. Very poor sense of scale or depth, colors that seem to run together, and it looks like a flat picture of the world with occasional bits stuck on to give it authenticity... at which they failed miserably.
4) If you really want to play a quality combat flight simulator, go check out 1C:Maddox Games' IL2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles I hope this information helps steer you away from CFS3, but not away from MS products altogether.
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Summary: Good graphics but not much fun.
Review: Touts itself as a great LAN device yet customizing for multiplayer contest is extremely limited. Aircraft responses are more like flying a Bomber rather than a fighter in combat. For a Microsoft product one would expect a higher level of performance. If you're looking for a realistic flight simulator don't rely on this one.
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Summary: What happened?
Review: Utterly disappointing... And this from a chap who gave Microsoft's FS 2004, FS 2002 and Combat Flight Sim 2 - 5 stars respectively. The box notes claim that "Combat Flight Sim 3 was built using an entirely new graphics engine", if this is truly the case (and there's no reason for me to dismiss this statement as a bold faced lie) then my next burning question would be... "For the love of God, why?!" Although I love to fly (simulated that is) I have to admit I am first and foremost a graphics geek, so my eyes tend to bend that way immediately and on first inspection of CFS 3 I was struck by the lack of "pop" CFS 3 offers visually, sure the aircraft skins are top notch, but beyond that the textures are flat, the sky looks as if someone simply scattered a handful of cottons balls over a blue field, the menus look like something pulled off the shelves way back in the mid 90's (remember those days) matter of fact CFS 1 was a stellar achievement compared to the milk toast drabness of Microsoft's latest "combat" outing. And oh yes did I mention the panels, cockpits and pathetic gunner views of the fighters and bombers are so dated visually that I thought at first glance my graphics settings were on low? NOTE ON MY SPECS (for reference): Compaq Presario 8000T, Pentium 4 - 3.20E GHz processor, Windows XP Home Edition, 1 GB DDR / PC3200 Ram, 160GB 7200 rpm Seagate Barracuda hard drive, 16X max. DVD-ROM Drive, 256MB DDR ATI Radeon 9600 (Direct X 9), Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (needless to say I had the offender in question maxed out!). The poor visuals inside these buckets of bolts only compound an even greater problem... playability or flyability (are those real words?). The heads-up targeting display is arranged at such an awkward angle that training your sights on the enemy is like navigating a high-wire on the tip of your tong, you can't see where you're going and trying to think ahead of your enemy's AI is near impossible because you can't see him and the oldest trick in the book of leading your target simply doesn't apply here because your forced to blindly spray a line of bullets somewhere into space in a direction you think or hope your quarry might be headed! I could go on and on but I simply don't have the mental strength or enough negative adjectives to describe the horror that is found inside such a pretty box. Hopes were high, then crushed by nothing short of an amateur offering by an industry giant. It makes me wonder, does the design team responsible for this flagrant act of shoddy craftsmanship still have jobs at Microsoft and if so are they wearing gray uniforms and carrying buckets and mops? Microsoft should be nothing short of embarrassed by CFS 3, it's a tremendous set back for the true innovator of flight sim technology. Look out Microsoft UbiSoft's on your six with IL2: Forgotten Battles (which looks better, runs better and feels better), they've got four gold stars stenciled neatly on their fuselage and they're looking to make that five.
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