Microsoft are returning to simulate flight with a game they name Microsoft Flight Simulator, their first severe new fly ’em up since 2006. The game’s mainly a thriller for now, although it does look very shiny. The incontrovertible fact that they’ve named it plainly Microsoft Flight Simulator might be a press release of intent, on condition that their tried pleasant tackle flying in 2012 with Microsoft Flight was bland and riddled with microtransactions. But look, shiny aeroplanes! And flamingos!
I’m pro-flamingo.
“Microsoft Flight Simulator is specifically designed to celebrate flight simulation fans through a focus on the authenticity of flying and visually stunning environments,” Microsoft say. “By revamping our tech, working in close collaboration with the community and pursuing the best partnerships across the industry, we intend to deliver the best-in-class flight simulation experience.”
Their blurb provides that it contains flying machines “from light planes to wide-body jets,” will allow us to “fly anywhere on the planet” and have day and night time and different issues you could see within the trailer proper there. For instance, flamingos.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is headed to Windows 10 in 2020, and will probably be a kind of games coated by the Xbox Game Pass subscription doodad.
In 2014, Microsoft licensed the center of their final Flight Simulator to Dovetail Games, the makers of Train Simulator. Dovetail first relaunched it as Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition, which was fairly good, then disastrously tried to construct upon these guts with Flight Sim World. They scrapped that mid-early entry in 2018, as Tim Stone explored in The Flare Path. Whatever Microsoft are doing now, it will possibly’t finish a lot worse.
See our E3 2019 tag for the remainder of our protection from the games present. Brendy and Matt are on the market in Los Angeles, enjoying games and taking names. They’re additionally assuming the roles of the Cheerer and the Jeerer to liveblog the large announcement occasions, hitting EA and Microsoft up to now.
