
It’s positively teeming with life, down to moving cars and signage posted around the world. This enables high-level, cloud-assisted detailing as you explore every inch of the world. With that in mind, the game puts some incredible strain on your setup, as it continually downloads additional data to flesh out the world you’re flying around. Our beast of a gaming PC can run it with no issues on Ultra, but this won’t be a reality for everyone. So massive, in fact, that you will need upward of 100GB to install the game and a peppy computer to run it on its highest settings. To put that in perspective, this is a massive game. Using heaps and heaps of satellite data and imagery, Microsoft has created a full-scale map of the entire globe that you can fly around at your leisure, and it’s absolutely incredible. The world is at your fingertips, which is difficult to process when you stop and think about it. That means you can fly out of your local airport to the North Pole if you so desire, or check out the gorgeous night lights of Los Angeles, or the peaks of the Himalayas. There’s nowhere you can’t fly, as long as you know what you’re doing.

Yes, anywhere, even through no-fly zones.
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You can then choose a departure and arrival airport anywhere in the world by dropping a pin on the extensive map - and then fly there. Six years may not seem like a long time in terms of video game development, but when you see what’s been accomplished here, it might as well have been an eternity.įor those unfamiliar with the series, essentially it lets you choose the plane you want to fly, from Boeing to Airbus and a wide variety of models in between, with smaller prop and turboprop planes available should you want to mix things up a bit. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is the first official entry in the long-running series since Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition in 2014.
