X-Plane Version 7
Description
X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers. Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier. X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
Hardware Requirements
Windows CPU Pentium 600+ ;Macintosh CPU PowerMac 400+ ;RAM 384 Meg Disk Space 4 gig ;CD-ROM any ;3-D CARD OpenGL;VRAM 16 Meg ;Monitor 1024x768+ ;Joystick/Yoke USB
Notes
WINDOWS users: YOU MUST HAVE DIRECT-X-8 (or higher) FROM MICROSOFT TO RUN! Also, to use ATC speech, you must often turn down the hardware acceleration on your sound card! If you still do not get verbal speech from ATC, download speech synthesis. Mac users are good to go with stock G4's and G5's.
Latest Game Comments (0)
GameZone's Review/Preview
7.0
GZ Rating
| Gameplay | 6.5 |
| Graphics | 7 |
| Sound | 7.5 |
| Difficulty | Hard |
| Concept | 7 |
| Overall | 7.0 |
Reviewer: Michael Lafferty
Review Date: 12/10/2003
X-Plane 7.0 is as detailed a flight sim as there is on the market
