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Great overall game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome i love the dogfights the bombing runs are excellent the realism on it is unnelievable. great game i recomend it to all.

Unbelievable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It is truely amazing that a "reputable" company like MS would release something this bad. It's like they figured, "what the heck, our customers will finish it for us." The planes are NOT realistic, at all, the interface is silly, the scenarios are less than Jr. High quality, and it really boils down to you, after having paid how much?, have to squint and fiddle and make up excuses for this thing. Do not waste your money on this product. There are simply too many much, much better FS games out there. I could go into the particulars of exactly why this game isn't ANY fun whatsoever, but I don't think Amazon would appreciate a review that long. Believe me, this is one game that Microsfot should be paying YOU to play.

I'd Give it 0 Stars if it weren't for multiplayer capability

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It does run fine on my P4 1.6GHz, 512mb SDRAM, GeForce4 4200Ti.

However, the gameplay is aweful. You can't influence the campaign much at all even if you fly around for hours with unlimited ordinance. Seems oddly unrealistic that reincarnation seems to be normal among ships in a sector from mission to mission.

Flight dynamics are OK. I'm an instrument-rated pilot and find it's close to what I'd expect in a video game.

Multiplayer is the only thing worth playing and even that is full of bugs.(i.e. Aircraft crashed in water sit on top for a while and you are able to run into them).

Documentation is terrible...especially regarding campaign gameplay. You have no idea what you must do in order to advance the campaign in your favor; if it's even possible to affect the campaign at all from the cockpit, and I have no evidence to suggest that it is.

Spend your money on something else!!!

A good game or a well-made hybrid?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 29
Date: September 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After reading all of the reviews of Microsoft's new sim: Combat flight simulator 3, I realized that this sim has everything I wished for.

Right now I own IL-2 Sturmovik and Apache Havoc. CFS3 is a hybrid (as I like to call it) of both of these other sims.

CFS3 has the ability to let you see the war go on and be affected by your actions(as seen on Apache Havoc). It also uses the DVC as a standard view cockpit(as seen in IL-2 Sturmovik).

I give a lot of props to those who gave there time into making this outstanding simulator.

impossible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: February 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is horrible!!!the controls are near impossible!!! They are so touchy its impossible to keep the plane headed in a straight direction!!! And it has a really late reaction.

i guess if you werea huge gamer and practiced for hours on end it would be great, but for the average gamer, do not even attemp this game.

Not as good as CFS2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Microsoft really missed it with this one. I was excited about getting this after really enjoying CFS2. But this isn't that good. I have a fair system(P3@1Ghz, G4Ti500,512ddr,XpHome)and I have to run this game and the lowest graphic settings to play without my system locking up. Im also disappointed at the game sounds. They are the same ones from CFS2(ie:engine noise, guns firing). So if you really like CFS1 and 2 dont waste your money on this one.

dont even bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

for starters i have a athalon 1.8 ghz with 256 mb of ddr ram and a geaforce 4 video card, 60gb of hard disk space and windows xp. I install combat flight sim and it's as smooth as mud...its like trying to run flight sim 2002 maxed out on an Apple IIGS, in other words it aint gonna happen.....it was a total waste of money for me so im warning you ahead of time beware of this product....it looks mighty tempting from the outside of the box but one you get it installed (if you can get that far) you will be very VERY dissapointed in the lack of performance....if you have to have it make sure you have the fastest machine out there.....

Impossible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is nearly impossible to load. My PC met all the minimum requirements +, and the game won't load without a new video card. Forget it!

Fix the .exe file!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I went around in circles for a few days trying to get this program to work, with no success. Then I went to http://gf.wiretarget.com/ and downloaded the fixed .exe file for this program. It now works as poorly (or as well) as Microsoft planned. They put so much security on the cd to make sure you can't copy it, the darn thing won't even work under optimum conditions. Luckily, the people at Wiretarget are able to come up with fixes for quite a number of games.
This program now works, but I'm not sure it's worth the money. Very poor views when you're flying these aircraft.

MS CFS 3 Battle for Europe

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game has way more complexity than I will ever use. I usually jump in through Quick Combat for a few minutes of R&R. Like most computer games, a lot of the quality of the play experience has more to do with the computer than the game. I recently purchased a DELL XPS with a super graphics card and also have a Samsung 213T monitor. With this set up I think that Pong might even be fun. That being said, the game has great graphics, both visual and sound realism and with just a simple joystick is a heck of a kick to play. However, there is some confusion with regard to earning of skill points, medals, etc. There seems to be some illogical equations at work, but since I only play for escape and not rewards, it is of little consequence. It is more realistic than its predecessor, MS CFS 2 WWII Pacific Theater, and I like the increase in varied ground targets. I think it is well worth the money.

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