Airplane Simulator Games - Fastest Growing Games in Town

Airplane Simulator Games - Fastest Growing Games in Town

Are you tired of unrealistic airplane simulator games? Do you want more than a few scenarios in your flight game? Are you looking for the best airplane simulator games around? If your answers to these questions are yes, then you're not alone (and you're in luck). Ever since 1982, when Bill Gates, fascinated by Antoine de Saint Exupéry's book Night Flight, (which describes the sensations of flying a small aircraft in great detail), released Flight Simulator airplane simulator games have had a dedicated, growing fan base.

But in the last few years airplane simulator games have become the fastest growing game. The 9/11 bombings, the vids of fighter pilots in action, celebrity piloting, and the relative ease with which you can try out flying online have resulted in the growing numbers of people wanting to get a first hand feel of flying an aircraft. All this makes Microsoft's decision to close the ACES studio and lay off the entire Flight Simulator team at the beginning of 2009 all the more puzzling. Or maybe not. They don't like competition they can't manage.

The competing animations and graphic design firms are now delivering amazing copy-exact look and feel interface reproductions of what is found in an aircraft. The introduction of dedicated graphics cards and sound drivers has further enriched flight simulation games both within and without the virtual cockpit so weather, scenery, and the sounds and touches of flying are being realistically reproduced in the top-end simulation games.

One of the best features of the better airplane simulator games is that you can fly almost every kind of air plane; you get a wide range of aircraft that you can practice and get a feel of, usually from vintage to cutting edge to wacky. There is a totally different feel and difficulty level while working with different planes, so this gives you a place to start and a standard to aim for. And they will add on new ones constantly through their online membership club.

Control is another key measure of game goodness. You don't have to be imprisoned within the confines a few scenarios. The best airplane simulator games allow you to be in control of every aspect. A good game will give you thousands of environments in which you can test your favorite aircraft with real life weather conditions. You choose everything, from aircraft to starting point, destination and weather conditions. The best games will adjust lighting correctly and set the sun, moon, and stars in the right places as well, even the runways will be true to life.

Airplane simulator games, if they are good, also allow you to tinker with and adjust just about everything to do with the game. You can modify engines, even create you own plane if you want, a superior graphics card should enable you to do just about anything and have it look realistic. In fact the only limitation to a good game should be your imagination, not the game itself.