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I’ve seen cars floating in the air and plunging off the edges of bridge abutments as I flew over roadways. Look closely enough, and the illusion begins to show its edges.
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Taking in the sightsįlight Simulator isn’t perfect, though. That has meaning, almost a kind of romance, that goes beyond a simple video game. And I did it right alongside a plane from a real charter service that’s been doing it for decades. I’ll likely never get to land a tiny plane on a tropical island in the middle of the Pacific, but on Tuesday I did. These kinds of flourishes - situating the real so close to the virtual - are more than just window dressing. Microsoft Flight Simulator has always been about recreating the experience of flying a real plane.
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Or I can spin the globe, zoom in on a tropical storm roiling over a landscape I’ve never even seen before, and see how much trouble I can get myself into. That means I can fly my little bush plane in the same kind of conditions that are over the real island of Moloka‘i right now - clear, sunny skies with unlimited visibility. That turns Flight Simulator into a viable training aid, something that real pilots can use to keep themselves sharp without burning jet fuel.īut the icing on the cake, to me, is the partnership with Meteoblue, which brings real-time weather into Flight Simulator as well. That means that the radio channels and frequencies needed to get from point A to point B are the same in the game as they are in real life, and will get updated on the same monthly cycle as real-world aviation radio. The game’s ambition doesn’t stop at pretty picturesĪsobo has also partnered with Navblue, which supplies players with real-world navigational data. That’s how I found myself sharing a runway with George’s Aviation Service. You can also turn it off if you’d like a more private experience, but in remote locations like Moloka‘i, it adds a lot of flavor to the simulation. It effectively allows you to fly around in Flight Simulator with real-time air traffic flying all around you.
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One of them is FlightAware, a company that “collects, interprets and distributes real-time and historical flight information” gathered from 28,000 ground stations in 195 countries. The team at French developer Asobo Studio has forged partnerships with several providers that help to bring real-world data into the virtual space.
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(Just how indistinguishable will depend partly on your gaming PC - while Flight Simulator will run fine at lower resolutions, you’ll need a cutting-edge rig to get the most out of it.)īut the game’s ambition doesn’t stop at pretty pictures. The results are breathtaking and, in many cases, almost indistinguishable from real life. I’m even able to move a slider and actually push the sun itself across the sky in a gameplay mode called Active Pause, which leaves your plane perched in midair while you move the camera around. The terrain simulation is especially convincing at higher altitudes, where a tremendous lighting engine fills in the gaps. What’s remarkable is that it actually works. This time around, rather than hand-crafting sections of the world piece by piece, the developers did something truly ambitious: They took 2 petabytes of satellite and photographic information from Bing Maps, used AI to create a three-dimensional map of the entire Earth, and let users pull down portions of that map, as needed, from the cloud.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator is the latest entry in a series that began in 1982. You must at least give it a try, but it’s also important to know what you’re getting into.
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It’s also one of the most complex and challenging pieces of software that I’ve ever used. Microsoft Flight Simulator isn’t perfect, not by a long shot, but it is filled with these kinds of magical experiences, when the barriers between the real and the virtual worlds seem to melt away.
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Thanks to this marvelous simulation, which blends real-world data with video game technology, George and I were actually sharing the same airspace at the same time - he in his real airplane, and me in my virtual one. If you want to see the very best of the best for your platform(s) of choice, check out Polygon Essentials. When we award a game the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the title is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games.