Hehe, this game, officially, ROCKS. I just got that GFTi4600 (see another thread for the problems that came with it
), so I can turn up all the graphics to get something awesome!
The flight model is, of course, amazing, and it's quite a shock to me after just spending most of my time lately in a prop sim.
The gameplay's great, and while there IS a steep learning curve, a couple minutes in weapons training will get you up to speed.
If you were scared away cause of the bugs, try looking at the sim again. They just released a 1.02 patch, and it fixes pretty much all the bugs I ever had, with the exception of some odd shadow glitches on some aircraft, and some occasional freeze-ups (but not that often).
All in all, I'd give it a 93% out of a 100%. A gorgeous, deep sim, but it's hampered by a friendly yet mostly scattered community, and some minor glitches here and there. You can knock off extra points for the lack of a dynamic campaign if you really want to, but when you're used to old-school campaigns like Freespace 2, IL-2, and CFS2 (that's a lot of 2s!
) then it really doesn't matter.
EDIT: Bit of advice. If you want to fly and listen to music at the same time, use Winamp, not WMP. It seems (to me, at least) that WMP takes up more of the precious memory and CPU power that you need to run this sim.
Picks for flying: Nightwish (especially Nemo, by Nightwish).
AC/DC
Medium-paced techno (vocal dance tracks are a bit too uppity for the single player, I have yet to try multiplayer).
