Details: What programs like this promise is sound and vision like on a TV. Bill Smart Win 95, $60 REALPLAYER G2, RealNetworks What: Internet audio/video player. Bottom line: 4.0 is the new standard in flight sims. 4.0 feels the need for speed in another arena as well: It takes a minimum of 166 MHz Pentium PC just to fly this thing, though a 266 MHz Pentium II is recommended. It isn't very difficult to fly this F-16C Fighting Falcon jet fighter, but the aerial combat and campaign scenarios will really bring on the white knuckles. (Just watch the debris blossom outward when enemy aircraft and armor are hit.) The Flight Handbook - the pilot/player's bible - will certainly be daunting to anyone new to high-end flight simulations, but on the other hand, 4.0 has an Instant Action mode that gets beginners into the air and closing with the enemy right away. Terrain visuals are remarkable in their detail and outside-the-cockpit special effects are minutely detailed as well. Instrumentation is complete (it all "works") and the HUD (Head-Up Display) is without comparison. Several technological advances over Falcon 3.0 - and most of the other air combat sims today - are noteworthy. Details: When it was released in 1991, Falcon 3.0 blitzed the flight simulation arena, becoming the benchmark against which other combat flight sims were measured. FALCON 4.0, MicroProse What: Combat flight simulator.
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