by reider » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:50 am
I looked at the motorways from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire to Manchester (I lived in Scunny some 20 years ago and have family there still). Four different motorways, one of which travels over the Pennines and splits into two where a farmer refused to move and now lives in the middle of the motorway with a tunnel underneath it for access. FSX got the `A` roads and the motorways exactly spot on, bends in the right place, splits in the right place, links to the next motorway in the right place, `A` roads crossing the motorway in the right place. Even the start to the climb to the Pennines is addressed properly, with the decline starting at the right bend in the road. If I`d had a car I could have driven there, like the detail from a roadmap. I actually did on most of it with the microlight, and overtook any traffic jams by flying over them.
Now, for cosmetics in a flight sim this is superb detail. Lets face it, its more than superb. The direction of the cars is cosmetic too, come on, how much detail do we want? If all the cosmetics were addressed the FPS would hit rock bottom. I think IMHO Aces/FSX have done a brilliant job so far. Sure, it has some problems, haven`t they all but come on lets not ask too much. The birds only fly one direction too, can`t we get them to flap a bout a bit and land in the nests? Come on, get flying...... ;)
Reider
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reider on Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:51 am, edited 1 time in total.
