| Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe DVD | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (270 reviews)
Sales Rank: 213
Language: English (Original Language)
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Special Features: nv:Software Type^Games
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 9am-00014
UPC: 882224258043
EAN: 0882224258043
ASIN: B000GCJ6MK
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Fly 24 different airplanes, including Ultralites for when you don't want to deal with all the knobs and dials | | • | Visit 24,000 of the world's airports, on all 7 continents | | • | Authentic road layouts - fly over your home town and navigate by the streets below | | • | Simulates advanced GPS technology | | • | Deeply immersive world to providing more structured gameplay elements |
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Product Description
Flight Simulator X will awe flight simulator fans and real pilots alike. All-new eye-popping graphics, actual missions to accomplish and a wider range of airports to visit recreate the experience of being a pilot, right down to the smallest detail. Complete point-to-point objectives and skill-based tests, or just fly around the world if you'd prefer that to ferrying passengers or cargo. Whatever you choose to do as a pilot, it's available here in Flight Simulator X Deluxe.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 265 more reviews...
serious simulator August 16, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am taking flying lessons in a Cessna 172, and this simulator is on spot to practice procedures---aka fly by the numbers (which I learned is very important). However, using a joystick and keyboard is not the same as the real cockpit of course, and the details are not nearly as breathtaking in a real plane.
 Good stuff. My preferred Flight Sim over all others. August 15, 2008
I've been flying Microsoft for several years now, since FS2000 Pro. This version is a huge improvement over FS2000, Large improvement over FS2002, good improvement over FS2004.
One thing I REALLY like is being able to see the small hills the highways follow, and they're where they are in real life. Nice. The terrain is similar to 2000 and 2004 but the trees and water are dramatically better. I think the flight dynamics are far, far better than any previous version. I also bought X-Plane based on the blade-element theory that the flight dynamics are as accurate as possible. Yech. I would hastily disagree. FSX is far more like what I experienced in real life vs Xplane. I don't play the XPlane sim much. It's too twitchy. When I fly, I FSX. It's just better.
I'm running an HP quad core 2.2, Vista home premium-yum, 3 gigs of RAM and an 8500 video card w/ 256 megs of ram. Not state of the art, not overclocked at all, and I can run the sim on high, ultra high, with quite a bit of traffic, and some weather, and see FPS in the high 20's low 30's. If I turn the display up to 1600x1050 I start getting the jitters, so I keep it 1200x 768. I'll bet it would run even better under XP though, as Vista sucks up 1/3 of my memory at idle.
 Microsoft is very misleading... Unless you have a blazing fast powerful system save your money August 5, 2008
Although the interior cockpits of this game have been greatly improved to look and perform much like the real thing, this game is a complete waste of money unless you have a PC with at least 3.5 Ghz and around 3 GB of RAM. I was completely disappointed after paying $50 for the deluxe edition and finding out that the graphical quality didn't even work with the system specs written on the box. I will never buy another one of Microsofts products again. However as negative as this review might sound, for those that have an awesome state of the art system, this game can't be beat. There is a lot more eye candy apparently than the 2004 version and if you get the deluxe edition you can even play online as an ATC controller or use a headset as a virtual pilot so it's not all bad. If you have a pre-2007 system I recommend FS 2004 but if you will be buying a new computer soon I'd get MSFS X.
Fu%&*ng AMAZING August 2, 2008
BEST GAME EVER... SO REALISTIC IT IS DISGUSTING (and im a 1st person shooting gamer). So now you know how great this game is. 150% recommended
 Very nice July 30, 2008
a well done product but the previous version was a little sharper in the glass cockpit instruments. nice array of aircraft and places to fly them in and out of.
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