Airplane enthusiasts are discovering that some Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 landmarks don’t quite live up to their real-world counterparts. We’ll let you know when we have more official details about the Microsoft Flight Simulator beta, as well as when the game is expected to get a full, proper release on PC and Xbox. For real pilots, the ability to accurately simulate weather or take a “trial run” of a complex flight is an obvious benefit, but having access to an entire world opens up dozens of possibilities.

On the other hand, in a lot of places, Flight Simulator looks like exactly what you’d expect from a game built on satellite imagery: smears of flat, poorly differentiated terrain carved up by thin lines of road, or slamming into narrow strips of beach.

With this new release, Microsoft has once again tried its best to tread the fine line between being easy to pick up and play, whilst retaining enough depth and realism to appeal to the legions of hardcore simmers out there who shudder at the thought of playing anything that could be described as a game”.

1. This kind of simulator is providing more options of the manners and the settings in which you want your flying game to be. With wide arrays of selections of the different planes, including the helicopters, for sure, one will have more than enough of the great experience that he will get from it.

The latest version of Flight Simulator, returning to the market after over a decade, has come a long way from my monochrome Cessna, but what’s significantly more interesting from a technology leader’s perspective is how the game incorporates real-world data, artificial intelligence (AI), and massive multiplayer capabilities.