Standard terrain graphics in FSX are rather grid like and not the most aesthetically pleasing, but they do still give you a good feel for flying as you’re shooting around the sky at 250kts. There are other, newer, flight simulator products out there that carry much higher quality graphics and therefore offer a better ‘immersion’ into the experience but on the flip-side of that statement, it does provide a relatively inexpensive way to get into flight simulators Well, it’s a software that’s now ten years old and, to an extent, that should give you an idea of what you’re likely to experience when you load up and take your first flight into the unknown. Additionally, Dovetail offer a variety of DLC that’s available from the Steam store and ranges from additional aircraft, to missions and beyond.įSX: SE does have some working differences some the boxed version and, while the vast majority of addons, aircraft and scenery are compatible, I have come across one or two third-party downloads that just don’t seem to work quite as they should. Once Dovetail Games received the licence in 2014, they wasted little time in identifying an opportunity to increase the gaming audience of FSX and, later that year, released it on the popular Steam gaming platform/website.įSX: Steam Edition (also known as FSX: SE) Incorporates both of the service pack updates and the Accerleration Expansion. In 2014, Microsoft signed a licencsing deal with Dovetail Games who then took over development of the software. Since it’s inception, FSX has seen two Service Pack updates (known as SP1 and SP2) and an the ‘Acceleration’ Expansion. Despite it being the latest, FSX is now over ten years old with it’s original European version having been released on October 13 2006. Flight Simulator X (more commonly known as FSX by it’s users) is Microsofts’ latest offering in their long line of Flight Sim software.

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