Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following are flight simulator software applications that can be downloaded or played for free. Several items are outdated. Please notice 'free' is not the same as open source. Free games may have limited options or include advertisements.
Steel Talons is a 3D combat flight simulator arcade game released by Atari Games in 1991. The player takes on the role of a pilot for an "AT1196 Steel Talons combat helicopter". Steel Talons was ported to the Sega Genesis, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. A Jaguar port was announced, but never released.
FlightGear started as an online proposal in 1996 by David Murr, living in the United States. He was dissatisfied with proprietary, available, simulators like the Microsoft Flight Simulator, citing motivations of companies not aligning with the simulators' players ("simmers"), and proposed a new flight simulator developed by volunteers over the Internet.
GeoFS (previously known as GEFS-online) is a free Dutch multi-platform browser-based multiplayer flight simulator based on the Cesium WebGL Virtual Globe. The game contains multiple aircraft, including several user contributed aircraft. [2] The SD resolution is based on images provided by the Sentinel-2 satellite.
YSFlight differs from other simulators, such as the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, in its intentionally low-detail graphical design. [3] This allows the simulator to be run by lower-end computers, with system requirements being much less than most other flight simulators. [4] It allows for to YSFlight clients to join a multiplayer server. [5]
A flight simulation video game refers to the simulation of various aspects of flight or the flight environment for purposes other than flight training or aircraft development. A significant community of simulation enthusiasts is supported by several commercial software packages, as well as commercial and homebuilt hardware.
Computer Gaming World stated in 1994 that Flight Simulator 5 "is closer to simulating real flight than ever before". [45] Microsoft Flight Simulator X was reviewed in 2006 by GameSpot. The reviewer gave the game an 8.4 out of 10 and commented on how it was realistic enough to be used for real-life flight training. [46]
Airfight is a 3D multiplayer flight simulation game and first-person shooter developed for the PLATO IV computer system in 1974. It was co-authored by Brand Fortner and Kevin Gorey at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [1] [2] as one of the earliest recreational flight simulator programs as well as among the earliest remote networked, team-based games.