Flight simulators for fans of virtual flying

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Beautiful flights, the sky, exciting adventures, steep turns! All these emotions can be experienced by conquering the sky. This is a very difficult task. After all, to conquer the sky is not easy, even if you own a small personal plane. Well, if your dream is serious enough. And you want to rule a huge passenger airliner or conduct combat flights on a military aircraft, then, most likely, your dreams will stay dreams. But it doesn't concern the gaming space. Developers each year more and more, release as close to reality flight simulators. With, that you can feel like a pilot a hundred percent. These games perfectly convey the atmosphere of the flights, the mechanics of the instruments in the cockpit, the beauty of the scenery outside the window porthole. Some projects seem to us real masterpieces. Please take part in the listing and discussion of the most significant and cool projects.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

The game is a great competition to similar arcade flight simulators. Developers, shiver and fear, such a cool project, should be feared. The game has a storyline, which already distinguishes it from the gray masses. Well, and a large army of enemies, bases to keep and combat vehicles of excellent quality, as a bonus to the excellent gameplay. Military vehicles can be upgraded to the level the player wants. The game is equipped with excellent quality graphics, physics of the machine behavior at the proper level. You can make a variety of turns, turns and stunts, in a short period of time. Aerial piloting, just mesmerizes and makes you inwardly shudder. Nesterov loop, corkscrew, barrel roll... whatever your heart desires. Just have the courage and desire to do it at altitude!

During the gameplay pilot, will be given tasks that must be completed, and preferably successfully. During combat missions, to help the player will pop up help and evasion of the camera surveillance to perform aerobatics. The game is very appealing to gamers who are not too concerned about the study of the basics and acquiring skills controlling the aircraft. Here the simplicity is just outrageous. Take the car, fly, shoot the enemy, and that's it.

IL-2 Sturmovik

The world became familiar with the game in 2001, with the help of developer 1C Maddox Games. This project is still in vogue, and its popularity is off the charts. "IL-2", turned out to be an excellent combat flight simulator, of the Second World War. The storyline of the game based on eight famous companies in which our countrymen defended the approaches to Moscow and Stalingrad, were fighting for Berlin. These major battles of a bygone era, will remain forever in our hearts. The player, in turn, ran the company and participated in battle scenarios that took place at the time. He also had the right to choose to participate in battles on either side of the conflict. At the time, historically, 32 units of aircraft belonging to Germany, America and the Soviet Union were involved. Thanks to the beautiful graphics of the game, with its help we can admire the beauty of the landscape from the height of the flight.

The gameplay is strikingly realistic and the mechanics of the aircraft are excellent, thanks to the fact that aircraft designers and engineers were involved in the creation of the game. In this game, the plane is not just flying aimlessly, it performs the tasks assigned, as much as possible aimed at winning and complete destruction of the enemy. It is quite a difficult aviation simulator to master, so the player will be interested in learning and achieving a variety of successes all the time.

War Thunder

"Tundra" is a great project that was created by developers in Russia. The game involves tank battles, naval and air battles. Therefore, we can not call the game only air simulator, it is a cocktail of a variety of military simulators. The player controls a variety of equipment on land, sea and sky. Conducts battles, has the ability to connect and other kinds of troops. Tech strength points are absent from the gameplay, but there is the strength of equipment. Shells can hit not only the vehicle itself, but also the crew members driving the military vehicles.

Digital Combat Simulator

This legendary masterpiece of air combat simulation was released in 2008. Players will be presented with several military companies, which present not only the Second World War, but also the conflicts in the Caucasus, Syria, and the Persian Gulf. The game's mechanics are quite complex and difficult to master. And the approach to the tactics of controlling aircraft, very different from the sample of similar, similar games. Planes involved in the game have optimal flight physics. The player must monitor the condition of the aircraft, adjust its systems. He is responsible for cooling the heated parts of the aircraft, using the cooling system. Must understand the hydraulics, electrical machine, monitor the amount of fuel.

Several dozen modules are involved in combat flights, a few dozen, in development. The game allows you to fight in a variety of conflicts on Earth, to take part in combat campaigns. The graphics of the gameplay is successful and excellent, the developers have tried, all the time it comes out with updates.

X-Plane Games

A very successful, highly polarizing, growing year by year, series of games by developer Laminar Research, released between 1995 and 2021. In reality, it is one very long game with successful sequels, through which it gets better and better, upgrades, and becomes almost immortal. In the game, which is, a multifunctional aircraft simulator, gamers, thrill-seekers can sit at the helm, both passenger and military aircraft. Between the games there are some differences in gameplay, mechanics and graphics. Some companies that are practicing private flights, train their pilots, using the game X-Plane, as a simulator. And it's all thanks to the fact that the gameplay is very realistic mechanics of flying machines.

All the laws of physics and aerodynamics are present, all this has an impact on the aircraft and forces the pilot to make decisions to adequately control the aircraft. By descending and gaining altitude, the pilot gets the reaction of the machine in response. Well, the topographic and navigational maps used in the game are just a separate conversation. Such advantages of gameplay, inspire respect and make you take the gameplay very seriously. Another advantage of this great simulator is the ability to improve the game with mods that will make it more functional and improve the graphics.

27 December 2021