The very best airplane game
Aviation, Computers, Computers & Software, Digital Products, Hobbies, Media & Entertainment, Software, Toys & Games Comments OffMany people are interested in airplane games around the world although probably not as many as the mainstream games genres like first person shooters which are massively popular. Flying games are less mass market appeal although they do still have a very large global following.
Just because the market is smaller than, say, car racing games a similar (if not higher) attention to detail is paid. With fully 3D worlds and movement to deal with the scenery has to be of a much higher quality as a flat 2D stand of trees, for example, is going to be very obvious but it would work just fine driving past in a simulated car because you only see one face of the tree (or whatever the scenery may be) instead of able to fly all around it.
Also aircraft have more plains of movement and more affecting factors like sudden up or down drafts, turbulence, thermals and others that simply don’t figure in other types of games. The physics going on inside your computer when you play a good flight simulator is mind boggling. And of course this is just multiplied up if you’re playing an airplane game that involves other aircraft and ratchets up another notch if combat is involved as each bullet or missile must be plotted and have relevant physics applied to it so it behaves correctly to give a truly immersive simulation experience to the user.
Flight simulators are often a little more expensive to purchase and this is because of the extra complexity involved. Each airplane in the game will behave differently as each has different aerodynamic characteristics including drag factors, weight, power and propulsion method, eg. propeller or jet and that’s not even going into the different types of propeller and jet engines.
Also people who want the most realistic experience will want to invest in a good quality joystick as well to compliment the game. Not even compliment, do it justice really. Think of all the very clever mathematics that have been worked out to bring you the very best airplane game. It could almost be said that these aren’t computer programs but in fact digital, mathematical, works of art.