Here’s the initial FAQ and 31 brand new screenshots from the next installment of Microsoft Game Studio’sFlight Simulator franchise. The new flight sim is scheduled for the 2006 holiday season. FAQs Q: When will “Microsoft Flight Simulator X” be available? A: We are working hard to deliver “Flight Simulator X” in the holiday 2006 timeframe. Q: What’s new in […]
Back To Page 3 WarGen II assumes the General Worden “Five Rings” air-war strategy used by U.S. and Coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War. You don’t have a ground war, because this is War in the Air. It’s a mean, ugly little air campaign like the one we had in Kosovo a few […]
Back To Page 2 A lot of players in the past have panned TAW for its God’s eye view of the world. Your cup runneth over with situation awareness, that’s true. Your avionics do most of the job, and the F-22 is state-of-the-art. You can see it all, all the bad guys around you. […]
Back To Page 1 TAW models what started out to many as a disappointing theater, but since that time I have come to know and love East Africa. The TAW Theater stretches over the Horn of Africa, from Egypt down to Somalia. The Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, Djibouti, and across the Red Sea to […]
A SimHQ “Second Look” Series Feature by Cat Hey there, flight sim fans! It’s time for another installment of Flight Sims: the Way They Were, brought to you by your good friends here at SimHQ! Today, the Cat’s taking a look at an old time favorite: the 1998 Digital Image Design classic Total Air War. I still have […]
Back To Page 3 The cockpit, while a detailed and accurate copy of the Mercury capsule, is and isn’t fully clickable. In order to manipulate the various knobs, buttons and switches mentioned previously, you first click on the panel where the switch you want to flip is located. Then you manipulate the control after […]
Back To Page 3 The cockpit, while a detailed and accurate copy of the Mercury capsule, is and isn’t fully clickable. In order to manipulate the various knobs, buttons and switches mentioned previously, you first click on the panel where the switch you want to flip is located. Then you manipulate the control after […]
Back To Page 2 Let’s Light This Candle! I loved Scott Glenn’s portrayal in The Right Stuff of Alan Shepard, the Navy pilot selected to make the first flight on May 5th, 1961. Anyone remember a very confused Werner von Braun telling Shepard to pee in his flight suit after confronted with the possibility […]
Back To Page 1 Under the Hood Wings Of Mercury is a recreation of the first seven manned space flights. For those looking for state of the art graphics and lots of eye candy, look elsewhere. There is only one external camera view and the graphics and effects are circa mid-‘90s. What it does […]
by Chuck “PFunk” Bellows The Few, The Proud, The Fans of Star Trek Like a lot of the people that inhabit our forums, I was a space nut. I had Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff read from cover to cover by age nine and I can still remember the names of all seven astronauts and the states […]
Back To Page 6 The Sparrow hits the Su-33 but once again it staggers on. The F-15 smells the blood though and he quickly gains an advantage on the wounded Flanker. One missile shot goes wide but by now he is in guns range. With the Flanker carving wide and gentle turns the Eagle […]
Back To Page 5 In the skies around me I can see smoke trails from missiles and flares, black smoke and flames from burning wreckage, but who is winning and who is losing I could not tell you. As I glance back and forth over my shoulder (TrackIR rules) I spot a target, padlock […]
