Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe
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Video Game Reviews of Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe
Customer Review: Combat Fligh Simulator
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm very pleased with this product. Hope a later verison comes out.Customer Review: Has Potential, But....
Summary: 3 Stars
The Sim has lousy sound, poor control over external views? If these were fixed then I would no doubt play it more. Go with "Forgotten Battles" & all the add ons, its spectacular.Customer Review: Should be called Combat Freight Train Simulator 3
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm sorry, but the CFS3 flight modeling is really bad. I don't mean hard to learn, I mean just bad. Using what they call realistic settings makes flying an excercise in frustration. I still remember my fisrt campeign mission as a bomber pilot, take off in rain at night. No lights, nothing, you can't even see a taxi-way, let alone a runway. I made it off the ground somehow, eventually the sun came up. I got close to target, I'm supposed to launch a torpedo from a B26 into an enemy ship. As you can imagine, that is pretty close to impossible to pull off, especially with the way everything is modeled.
On a simple bomber intercept mission, I unloaded all of my ammunition into an enemy bomber at 500 yards or less and nothing happened. I mean nothing, no apparent damage. I'm sure I missed with 50% of the shots, but hit with more than enough to saw off a wing and kill all of the crew to boot!
Flying a fighter of any kind at any speed/altitude feels like flying a 747. If you enter a dive, your lack of manuverability means that you will probably pick up so much speed that you will create a new crater in the countryside. Roll response is not all that bad, but pitch is under modeled on almost all of the planes. There may have been some deliberateness to this because dogfights feel more like gun camera footage than a simulator like IL2. In other words they may have tried to give an authentic feel by dampening manuvers to the point that things happen in a slower motion that other simulators. I don't think this is a terrible idea, but they didn't get it quite right and with the gun damage being so under-modeled you will be frustrated with dog fights and intercept missions.
Air to ground is a little better, although the sluggish controls make pulling out of a strafing run a little too exciting. It also seems like strafing is a little too easy, a quick burst of bullets will obliterate an entire supply depot and end the mission. When I say quick burst, I mean just tap the trigger!
Overall, I think they could have done a much better job with this game. I like the idea of the big campaign, but it just doesn't quite come together and isn't worth the time. This game requires more patience than I'm willing to give it.
Customer Review: Unbelievable
Summary: 1 Stars
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.Customer Review: MS Flight Combat Flight Sim 3 is great!
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently purchased this flight sim (my first one) on the recommendation of a friend. It was easy to install. The updates were easily obtained and installed. It pretty much worked well right out of the box. I use a Logitech USB joystick. I learned the basics of flying and the commands to do so pretty quickly. We had to tweak our home routers a bit at first but after doing this, we have enjoyed playing MS Combat Flight sim over the internet together. Hours and Hours of great fun. I am going to purchase MSCFS 2 in the near future also.