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Falcon 4.0

Still, Falcon 4.0 joins the likes of Longbow 2 and Jane's F-15 on the very short list of amazingly big, deep, and complete air combat simulations. If you're a hard-core sim fan with the hardware to handle it, you need this game.

Ansonsten bekommen Sie Authentizität pur geboten. Aber genau hier liegt auch der Knackpunkt von Falcon 4.0. Ich persönlich mag es gern komplex und sehr realistisch. Einsteiger werden aber gerade davon abgeschreckt. Eine sanfte Heranführung an das Thema mit kommentierten Trainingsmissionen, in denen willige Greenhorns (und auch Fortgeschrittene) das notwendige Handwerkszeug lernen könnten, wurde versäumt. In diesem Punkt hat Longbow 2 immer noch die Nase vorn. Dennoch, wenn Sie zumindest einen Pentium 200 mit flotter 3D-Karte in Ihrem Hangar stehen haben, werden Sie keinen komplexeren, realitätsnäheren und atmosphärischeren Flugsimulator finden.

Falcon 4.0 is a powerful PC simulation with boundless potential, but no matter how good it looks on paper, one hesitates to let his guard down and plunge into a sim that isn’t quite ready. Virtual pilots will have to wing it until the final fixes are in. I feel sure that Microprose will not rest until its bird of prey flies high. When the wings of Falcon 4.0 are completely mended, watch out!

Bugs aside, this is the most ambitious simulation ever attempted, and one of the best simulations ever made. It combines extreme realism and unprecedented depth to create an experience that any self respecting sim junkie should not be without. For those of you out there with slow systems, the graphics can be fully tweaked, but you will not experience their full glory. And for the rest of you out there in the general gaming public, you can turn down the realism so you don't crash on every landing, but if that's what you're after you'd best be a looking a someplace else.

Well how do I sum it all up, Such a great game with so few flaws, yes there were some flaws, in the first version the game crashed many times, however this was improved in version 1.03, however this patch totally crippled the AI, mostly small annoyances occurred. Micropose has assured us they are hard at work fixing every bug they can find, what do you know a game company committed to their project, I like that.

Schon die ersten Preview-Versionen zeigten, daß Microprose grafisch im Jetsimulationsbereich eine deutliche Steigerung zu sämtlichen bisherigen Produkten gelingt. Und tatsächlich wird die F-16 in allen Einzelheiten bis hin zum HUD des Piloten dargestellt, sogar die Schmauchspuren der Bordkanone sind zu sehen. Dazu demonstrieren die volldynamischen Feldzüge, wie eine Kampagne heutzutage auszusehen hat. Alles, was Sie tun, beeinflußt den Kriegsverlauf. Wenn Sie sich die Mühe machen, andere Einheiten zu verfolgen, sehen Sie, mit welcher Akribie Aktionen am Boden ablaufen und was Ihre Streitkräfte sonst so tun. Jedes Gerät an Bord Ihrer F-16 Falcon verhält sich so, wie es uns die meisten Quellen glauben machen wollen. Und hier liegt auch ein Problem: Wer noch nie vorher eine Flugsimulation geflogen ist, wird sich sehr schwer tun, bis er die Maschine mit all ihren Waffen- und Navigationssystemen tatsächlich beherrscht.

Hi, combat flight junkies! With the lull in combat flight titles, your ace reporter has been looking over some of the hot titles of the recent past, and no look at the hottest flight sims could possibly be complete without Falcon 4.0. Yes, I admit it. I'm a Falcon fanatic. I first encountered F4 during the run-up to its release in November 1998; I had followed Combatsim.com's wire-to-wire coverage and read every article Len "Viking1" Hjalmarsson (Len, I apologize if I misspelled that) put out. As much as I enjoy Total Air War, Flanker, Comanche v. Hokum, and all the rest of the awesome titles we can fly, I keep coming back to F4 every time a new tweak happens. The combat jet community built F4 up into the Daikatana of its day- no sim could have measured up.

Falcon 4 is een schitterende en zeer realistische action flightsim, die, vrees ik, niet voor iedereen geschikt is, daarvoor zit deze game namelijk te ingewikkeld in elkaar. hardcore flight-fans gaan echter op zeker uit hun dak.

Det bär mig emot att sänka Falcon 4.0. Spelet skulle med lätthet nå över 90% om det hade varit färdigt. Microprose har helt enkelt släppt spelet för tidigt. Om utvecklarna lyckas reparera skadorna, kommer Falcon 4.0 att bli en av de riktigt stora.

Falcon 4.0 has been through several patches since its release in late December, and the list of bugs they address is very long. The game is so incredibly complex that a lot of these problems weren't readily apparent to gamers playing the released version of Falcon 4.0 -- but the read-me files included with each new patch tell the tale, listing bug after bug that the patch fixes.

MicroProse Software prouve une fois encore sa maîtrise en matière de simulation de vol militaire criante de vérité. Malgré des débuts mitigés dûs à une sortie précipitée, Falcon 4.0 est après l'installation du patch 1.07, indispensable, ce qu'on pouvait espérer d'un titre de cette série mythique : un vrai simulateur de F-16, beau et complexe, réservé aux joueurs qui n'ont pas peur d'un manuel de 400 pages à lire impérativement au risque de ne pas pouvoir ne serait-ce que décoller.

So is Falcon 4.0 for you? Despite the bugs and broken features, I've been game-locked on this simulation since the day I booted it, forsaking even the WWII sims I'd waited so long for. No other sim has come so close to re-creating the feel of my one flight in a jet fighter. If you stick to the sections that are fairly solid - the training missions, instant action, and dogfights - you'll keep yourself busy for quite a while. And hopefully, by the time you master the plane's systems there, the next patch will be out, and the campaign glitches will be ironed out. (MicroProse's Gilman Louie has committed not only to patching all the major bugs, but also to keeping a team working on the program for up to six months after release to add user-requested enhancements.) But if you're the type of gamer who gets really frustrated when things don't work as they should, you'll want to wait until the bugs are ironed out.

Microprose kan met recht verklaren dat ze een flightsim op de markt hebben gegooid die bestemd is voor F-16 piloten of voor diegenen die, wanneer hun ogen 's nachts dichtvallen, veranderen in F-16 piloten!