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Good, but very frustrating....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

CFS2 is a good simulation with great graphics, and I agree with the comments of others that this simulation needs high-end computing and graphics power.

My main complaint is that it's very hard to come out the victor in a dogfight. It seems like no matter what I do, ninety percent of the time, a Japanese fighter will get on my tail and proceed to shoot me down. And this is with the enemy skill level set at novice.

Another major complaint is that it's very easy to stall the aircraft and enter a fatal spin. There doesn't seem to be any spin recovery allowed; once you're in the spin, you're finished.

I find myself playing CFS European Theater more often, just because it's more fun NOT getting shot down all the time.

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. It beats out CFS1 by a lot. Not only do get to fly such planes as the corsair and the zero but you can download other planes from the european theatre to the pacific theatre. I've gotten a Spitfire with lots of load outs. I also got the other verson of the corsair. The F4-Uc. This has the cannons instead of the 6 .50 caliber machine guns. This i think is better than the F4U. Great game buy it ASAP.

brilliant!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Fantastic game. I was hooked straight away, although was disappointed with the graphics on my PC, so upgraded it just for this game; 64MB gforce3 video card to maximize the special effects - 1600 x 1200. Unfortunately that's all that my monitor can handle, but the game can play at an even higher resolution. Visitors are blown away by the effects - full flames, smoke, detail - you can even see the shells when firing. Brilliant!

After learning to fly with the tutorials you can play others on "The Zone" ... and perhaps join a squadron to take on other squadrons.

You can import planes, missions, scenery, weapons etc from other Microsoft Flight Simulator programs or download from the Internet.

Once again Microsoft have written a winner. Well done.

If I was to winge about one thing though - is that it doesn't support Network Address Translation (NAT through firewalls and Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) unless you are running it on the ICS workstation that is connecte directly to the Internet.

The best Microsoft sim yet. Not completely satisfied though.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've been a flight sim fan since Red Baron from Sierra back in '91 and the first Microsoft flight Sim from back in the 80's. I hadn't played a game this fun and that looks so good in a while. I love the realism of the flight models, they are way better than CFS1. All the other reviews here speak very well of the positive aspects of this game and i totally agree with most of them, so i'm only going to critizice the aspects of the game that I'm displeased with.

The first and most annoying thing i've noticed is the damage engine in the game, no matter what damage text come across your screen your plane always seems to get damaged(at least initially) in the same way. Even if it says that your cowling has been hit or your engine, you immediately loose aileron control, your roll rate diminishes a whole lot, basically killing the high manueverablilty of your plane. I have never seen in a mission that my elevator gets hit first or my rudder.
If the game designers wanted to make the game more difficult they should have made the enemy fighters smarter instead of what seems to be on purpose,lowering you down early in the mission to the seeming manueverability and skill of your enemy.

Which leads me to the next point; After about 80 kills the game is starting to get too easy, even at 100% realism and playing the campaign in hard, At this point in the campaign I want to start dogfighting enemy aces, and not have to redo the mission because my wingmen even though I've taken care of them and have about ten kills each don't help much, and I end up getting shot down by about 10 enemy fighters while the rest of my squadron just seems to follow me wherever I go even after repeated orders to engage the enemy.

Another thing about the campaign that although its minor in comparison to my previous comment is the fact that even while playing as a Jap you can select and fly American fighters from the Airplane Selection/Loadout screen.

The last thing that I was really looking forward too specially after i got the hang of the game and started playing a campaign on hard setting, was to see more of the great weather engine adopted from FSIM 2000 PRO. Sure you get to see some nice puffy low altitude stratus clouds with no turbulence and that's it. you never have wind to take into consideration or icing on the wings at high altitude, and even if you design the worst storm you can think of; you'll come back to your carrier to find the big surprise that the ocean looks like a kiddie pool. The waves are probably about 1 feet tall and once on the carrier unless you designed some supernatural gusty winds you'll find that the deck is moving about 1 foot up and down and barely rolling left and right.

Just if you're wondering I'm a 24 year old pilot, currently working as a flight instructor with a total of 400 hours of flight time.

It is still one of the best games i've played, only harder in difficulty by Janes F-15. I still love the game and that's why I gave the game 4 stars. 5 stars is a simulation that perfectly simulates real life to any posible extent. When something like that comes out we won't have time to be here writing, it will take too much of our gaming time.

My Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is an awsome game.Tho i may be only 13 i know my games!And this is certainly a game!If you want World War Two you have it in this game.I think this game has great graphics.It may be alot of money but it worth the money(of course on the money i get from my mom it's alot):-D!I hope you find my review helpful for buying this game trust me...it's worth it!

Good stuff, Maynard

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm a longtime civil-jet flight-simmer (started with FS95, back in the stone age). When my wife bought me this thing, I really wasn't sure I'd like it. After all, flying this sort of one-lung antique seemed to pale in comparison to easing the mighty 747 -- queen of the skies -- into the air. But I haven't touched FS2002 in about a month, and my virtual airline is about ready to fire me.

But dang, it's so much fun.

It's an amazing challenge to get hit in the right wing, for example, and have to adjust your trim, tactics, etc. to compensate for the extra drag and loss of control surface. All while trying to dodge streams of tracers from behind and below. After managing to catch the wire on a flattop, with your ship decorated with about 200 bullet holes and no hydraulics, landing a 737 at ORD has become ... well ... boring.

OK, the crashes aren't spectacular, but frankly, in the wake of 9/11, I don't want my plane crashes too realistic anyway. Microsoft seems to have struck the right balance between realism & frame rates.

Speaking of frame rates, I'm using a 733 Mhz Dell / 630 MB RAM (sic) / 64 MB nVidia TNT2, i.e. not exactly a bleeding-edge computer, and my frame rates are pretty darn good (25/30 fps).

Tip for all you youngsters out there: get the Saitek joystick/throttle combo so you can stick with your left hand and throttle with the right -- those all-in-one stick/throttle things *bite* for real flightsimming. And between missions, pay attention to the dialogue; maybe you'll learn something about the incredible sacrifices your grandfathers made for you.

Anyway.

Nice clean install, no big bugs that I've noticed (maybe, just maybe, Microsoft is getting this "software" concept figured out!)

Highly recommended.

dsj

Realistic Flying

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great, the flying experience is realistic,
the simulation allows the installation and use of my CH Pro Pedals USB, operating a flying simulation with the use
of Rudder pedals and toe brakes is as realistic as it gets.
This simulation, (I wouldn't call it a game) has all the
feel of Pacific WWII combat and flying that anyone could
want, just using the free flight capability without the combat role is exciting and rewarding...I have a Pentium III 700 mhz machine and although my plane crashes quite a bit (while attempting to land on carriers) the computer never crashes.
If you don't own this one your missing one of the best
computer flying simulations ever produced.

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: Pacific Theater

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This really is a great game. As a WWII buff, I really appreciate the attention to detail in the aircraft, the scenery, and the campaigns. For those that have played CFS1, this is leaps and bounds better, and in my humble opinion, it even blows CFS3 out of the water. The terrain is MUCH better (gradiated elevation instead of flat or blocky), the damage profiles on the aircraft are more realistic... I would even say that the graphics are better overall than CFS3. Just an all around GREAT game with a high replay value. Hard to find outside of Amazon.

Pretty good: not great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I got the game, I was all hyped up about it, because it was my first flight sim. It is a pretty good game. But after a while is got redundent and a bit boring. Here are the positives and the negatives.

Positives:
-Great plane graphics: inside and out
-Great bullet simulation: the g-force is really realistic
-Realistic missions: you have wingmen, etc.
-Landing and taking off is fun: starting the engine, throttle, etc.
-Awsome crashing graphics: tail or wing flies off and your plane is flaming

Negatives:
-It's very hard to learn the controls: basically it's "find out for yourself"
-Unless you have a joystick, it's not nearly as realistic
-The guy who speaks to you on the radio is almost incomprihensable
-The ship size to your size is not realistic at all
-Ships are basically grey blobs with towers on them
-For one plane the controls are twisted
-The tail rudder hardly works at all

All in all, the graphics are great but the controls are messed up

Pretty good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good flight sim. CFS 1 was better in the graphics area. This has a way better story line though. This had wonderful graphics too but not as great as the first combat flight simulator.

Some of the complaints I have about this game are

1. Your wingmen are useless when you want them to do something

2. Even though the game is pretty long I wish it stopped at the surrender of Japan or the Americans victory

3. It is too easy to complete missions.

Other than that this is a flawless game.

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