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Basically I feel like playing a flying game or flight simulator, can anyone make some recommendations? Either PC or Console, I have an okay computer and an Xbox 360 and PS2. I'd like to play one set in WWII and was thinking of trying out Blazing Angels but I heard it was crap.

Hell yeah!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aces_of_the_Pacific

Great game. :)

The best of them all is Flight Simulator for Windows 95. Lol.

I have played this (http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/) and would recommend it I suppose. It is set in WWII as well.

Blazing Angels was utter crap. Multiplayer was entertaining enough, but the rest killed my soul.

THe IL-2 series is good. You should be able to pick it up on the cheap.

Try Sky Odyssey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Odyssey) for the PS2. It feels a little generic to me, but I think it's just what you're looking for.

I don't think this is what you're looking for, but I understand X-Plane (http://www.x-plane.com/) is a very good flight simulator. That's all it is, though, it has no aerial combat. :(

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I enjoy playing I of the Dragon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_of_the_Dragon), but (1) many people disagree and (2) it's obviously not set in WWII (or on earth, for that matter).

I don't think this is what you're looking for, but I understand X-Plane (http://www.x-plane.com/) is a very good flight simulator. That's all it is, though, it has no aerial combat. :(

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For a Flight Simulator you can either get X-Plane (http://www.x-plane.com/). It does have realistic flight models, even though the graphics are 2 years or so behind. However, they are catching up, so in a few years it may surpass Microsoft Flight Simulators. That's another one I would recommend, is FSX. (http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/flightsimulatorx.aspx)

You can't go wrong with either one.

Red Baron (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=4845) :p

Blazing Angels is all right.

But if you want a good realistic game, one where you hve to take off and land navigate your way to your area, which could be over the Rhine and you are in the sounth of England (you can fast forward that bit), and not only have you got your main targets but a selection of secondary targets including on your way back from the sortie say you see a moving train or airfield and you (provided you have enough fuel and ammo left over) decide to do a bit more damage.

Then the game you want is European Airwar, excellent game, I one enjoy

Church of Nike?

Sounds Maxian.

The IL2 Sturmovik series is the last word in combat flight sims (unless you really want a modern jet sim). The other games are just posers and for console kiddies. :)

THe IL-2 series is good. You should be able to pick it up on the cheap.
^That. Lots of great historical little known planes and quite realistic flight model

The IL2 Sturmovik series is the last word in combat flight sims (unless you really want a modern jet sim). The other games are just posers and for console kiddies. :)


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IL2 Sturmovik is simply the best combat flight sim around, from my personal experience anyway.

Combat Flight simulater FTW! It's an awesome game.


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Superpower roulette - for this game you will need a cape, a radioactive source, a high building, and a thermos of weak lemon drink.

Take your equipment to the roof of the tall building and expose yourself to radioactivity. You may wish to drink your weak lemon drink while waiting for your superpowers to manifest themselves. Put on your cape then take a good run up and hope that you have got flying rather than x-ray vision or some other less than gravity challenging ability.

For the XBox 360 I recommend Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-186979/Ace-Combat-6-Fires-of-Liberation-Trailer.html)

For PS2, I recommend its successor, Ace Combat 5: the Unsung War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNa1YGUYTUk)

also, visit www.acecombatskies.com and acecombat.jp for more info.

Red Baron (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=4845) :p

I love that game!

http://www.hitechcreations.com/frindex.html

best one I've played.

Blazing Angels was utter crap. Multiplayer was entertaining enough, but the rest killed my soul.

THe IL-2 series is good. You should be able to pick it up on the cheap.

The latest IL-2 is pretty good, with many jets and prop aircraft, along with some aircraft that were only on paper.

Dawn of War. It's fun.
okay so it's not a flying game. but it's still fun.

Google Earth has a flight sim built right in

The Il-2 series is the Silent Hunter series of the flight sim world - either quite easy, or brutally realistic, depending on your tastes. Absolutely superb.

Crimson Skies is good for a laugh (on the PC), but not exactly realistic.

Dawn of War. It's fun.
okay so it's not a flying game. but it's still fun.

Does that game even have planes? :p

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I don't know where I would find some of those older PC games though, I don't think any stores carry them...:( IL-2 Sturmovik, and European Air War look the best.

Does that game even have planes? :p

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I don't know where I would find some of those older PC games though, I don't think any stores carry them...:( IL-2 Sturmovik, and European Air War look the best.

It sort of does.
If you count the thunderhawk gunships that lower the space marine reinforcements, or the Ork planes that lower their buildings down.
oh and the orbital bombardment is kind of like being bombed from the sky, well except it's from space, but that's not far off.
so i'd have to say no, but it's still fun anyway.

Google Earth has a flight sim built right in
It really has! It's not a joke! :D
:rediscovers Google Earth:

Oh, Total Air War is good now that a fairly massive group of modders has been updating it. Superb, even.

Don't forget the Jump Troops that use jetpacks/rockets.

Church of Nike?

Nike: roman god of war

Red Barron. Definitely.:D

Nike: roman god of war

No, Nike was a Greek goddess who personified triumph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_%28mythology%29