Microsoft Flight Simulator not only excells in simulating the experience of flying a real aircraft, but also provides the user with hours of trippy entertainment that can usually only be found in games that carry a fantastic theme, or in other Microsoft software (one may instantly recall the infamous BSOD).
Some examples:
- The Jesus Approach. In most versions of FS you can practically land on the water. All you have to do is just approach the sea a bit slower and a little less steeper than you usually would. Sometimes this doesn't work, but worry not, for the M$ developers have once again done it with their unique :
- Crash effect. Have you ever seen a plane crash ? maybe not. But the flight simulator dev team sure have. Everything becomes fuzzy, blinking white screens with the silhouette of the crashed aircraft quickly appear and disappear from you vision, Awful screeching noises everywhere, little gray polygons flying aimlessly towards the sky, etc. Kinda makes you sit paralysed in front of your computer, amazed by the forces of nature.
- Really, you have to play it. Drugs are for the weakly hearted. This is, as Microsoft marketing department so wisely printed on the game box, 'The Real Thing'.
And my computer is fine, i'm sure.