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Excellent, Very Very Excellent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: November 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Flight Simulator 2000 Professional is just an incredible sim game. The graphics are just superb and if you have a 3D accelerator and a Pentium III with lots of RAM, boy you will think you were flying the real thing. The instant weather thing is really cool and it is neat to update it and then look outside. This is a must have game that you have to buy if you like this!

Great... Much better than FS98

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Microsoft made some definate improvments this time. The new graphics and scenery are the best they've ever been. But... you'll deifinately need a good system to for it to run really smooth on. I'm running a PIII 500, 128MB Ram, and a 16 MB 3D card, and occasionally it gets choppy, but fo the most part, its great. If you're into flight sims, its a must have.

GOOD BUT

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Very good, but you need at leat a PII400Mhz and a 3D Card if you want to land that thing...

Great Graphics, sound, trip planner..Nice Clouds..

This game is so much better than Flight Simulator 98

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Flight SImulator 2000 i ss o awesome. It has a real weather program, the best GOS system and totally awesome graphics. I would recommend anyone ot get it. ANd the good thing is the flight Simulator 98n planes you doenload work on FS 2000.

Don't buy it unless you have a powerful PC!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 68 / 73
Date: November 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This may be a great product but Microsoft marketing was inaccurate about it working on a PC as low as a Pentium 166. While FS98 works on "older" PCs, FS2000 needs CPU power and lots of it, probably at least a Pentium II 400. See Microsoft's own FlightSim message board on how angry deceived purchasers are. So be sure you have a more powerful PC to make this work efficiently. Thanks to MS's 30-day back guarantee (on the box) I was able to return it.

A quality, fun game to play.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 69
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

When you turn it on you feel the power that you are in the pilots seat you start up the engine you turn off the parking brakes and you pull the power up and take off you go far your crusing and you go through the mountains and you see the beauty and then you get to close to the mountains and you try to turn to the right andw you spin out and crash; you start over...

Flight Simulator Rising?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 76 / 81
Date: November 26, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I first saw FS back in the early(ish) days around 1988. I just had to have it, and FS2000 was no exception. I ordered my copy sight unseen, and then thought I'd made a bad mistake when I saw some people's comments about processor speed etc.

I'm running a P3 at 450MHz, with a 16Mb graphics card and 128MB of RAM. I'd have to rate the performance as "above acceptable" with all the bells and whistles. I can turn off some of the fluffy stuff and get good frame rates (in the 40fps region).

The graphics are simply incredible. Turn the aircraft around on a sunny day and admire the glare of the sun. Great flight models on all the aircraft (no surprise there). I just love the Concorde and the 777 - it's almost worth getting for those two alone.

A number of new features crept in between FS98 and this version. The flight planner is much more useful (since you can pick waypoints from a map - great if the geography of Iowa isn't high in your mind). I love the GPS addition also.

I miss cockpit communications (unless I just haven't found it yet). It would be nice to Request to Land/Takeoff at a minimum.

On the whole - if you've got a respectable machine, buy it to show off the graphics to your friends, and if you're a pilot, turn down the graphics quality and you'll have a great experience. Trust me.

Great game! Will keep you busy for some time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 39 / 40
Date: December 03, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of Flight Simulator, but have limited time to play. In the prior versions, I never felt that I mastered some of the finer points of flying. In the 2000 version, there is a fantasitc flight school that gives you all the help you need to really know what you are doing. As you go throught the tutorials, you can earn a Flight sim pilot's liscence and an IFR rating. Makes you feel like a real pilot.

I love the flight planning features and all the airports available. Great graphics. I can't say enough good things about this game.

Amazing Flight Sim

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 53 / 55
Date: December 17, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best commercial flight sims I have ever used. I am a pilot, and I was impressed with the realism of FS2000. I was impressed to find our own landing stript on our farm in Minnesota. Prcatilcally every airport, Public or PRIVATE it available. You can set up flight plans from any airport you wish. For Pilots, this product is defiently worth the money, It is like paying for 1 hour is a real airplane.

The navigation is not as good as Fly! But, the realism is well worth the sacrifice.

It doesn't come with many adventures, but you can always download them on the net (2000net is a good place to start).

I am running a P-III 600 mhz, w/ 128 ram and 32 meg video. And it is absoultly flawless, as it should be. I don't believe MS, when they say it will run on a 166.

If you are just a consumer looking for a flight sim, get the NON-Professioanl edition. But, if you are a pilot, or an aspiring pilot get the professional edition, it was more IFR panels you can use that WILL really help you in earning your pilots license.

If you are looking for a combat flight sim, that you can shoot people down with, get Falcon 4.0. But, if you want the best commercially available flight sim without spending thousands of dollars, get this product. It will blow you mind.

A Note for those who have an MMX computer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: December 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

On the back of the box, Microsoft says it needs a Pentium 166 with 500mb free disk space and a quad speed CD rom drive. I have a pretty good system: Pentium 233MMX, 2 gig hard drive, fast CDROM and a 3d banshee card. It was terrible! The typical install took over 700 megabytes and there was blood running out of the hard drive. It took about 40 minutes to install the game and another 10 while it was building the scenery database. It also took the hard drive 7 minutes to load the game and much more to change aircraft. Because I had a 3d card, the actual perfomance was not too bad, although the SLIGHTEST change made the hard drive go crazy!

I was very disappointed. For those of you that may be considering buying this product and have a 166 or a 233, STAY with FS98! I went back and I am pleased with its performance! It may not have all the fancy features and scenery that 2000 has, but it is worth the tradeoff in performance.

I am very happy using FS98. The third party utilities I downloaded made it almost as good as FS2000, so if you're in my position..DON'T BUY IT! Buy FS98 instead, or keep it if you have it.

You will spare yourself time, patience and money!

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