Characteristics of the Ideal Flight Simulator Game
Posted: March 19th, 2010 | Category: Computers and TechnologySo you’re looking for a great flight simulator game, but you’re not quite sure which aspects of the games should receive the bulk of your attention? Ultimately, different gamers will place varying degrees of importance on different features and elements of games, but I’ve broken down the key categories and tried to gauge their overall importance to the flight simulator game genre. How much weight you assign to each category is up to you.
Graphics – Some graphics that most flight simulator games feature are somewhat ancient. . If you seem to forget that you’re just playing a game because you have been captivated by it, you can tell that the graphics of it is great. Flight simulator games not feature Google Maps which shows images of landscapes with different levels of clarity which depends on the game size. The potential trade off for good graphics is that it may cause the game to experience bouts of slowdown as a result, so keep this in mind when judging flight simulators for their graphics.
Features – This can run the gamut from the inclusion of online play, to the number of options available, to the attention to detail found in the design of the airports, and much more. The details of Flight Pro Sim’s flight simulator game will surely win the category of having the best depth of the features among the other games in the market. It features a staggering number of…well, features.
Physics – This category receives varying degrees of importance depending on the genre, but for flight simulators it’s absolutely vital. To integrate the physics of the real world to the game is what a flight simulation game do. If the physics engine simply isn’t up to snuff, the entire experience is rendered moot. No one game has perfected this category, and it could be that none ever will, but Flight Pro Sim probably has a slight edge in this category as well.
Other important categories can include how well the game controls, the sound design, which includes both music and sound effects, and the difficulty of the game, which is usually a by-product of many of the other categories above. Some gamers prefer the easy mode while others prefer the stiff challenges.
While there’s no one flight simulator game that dominates all categories, the one that performs the best across all of them is undoubtedly Flight Pro Sim. The fact that Flight Pro Sim also continues to receive steady updates and improvements, while other games are mostly in final states, also lends itself well to the overall health of the game. In fact I’d venture to say it wins all but the graphics category hands down over the competition, but hey, that’s just my opinion. It is much better if you try the game out for yourself so that you can have your own conclusion about the game.