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Run your school the way you want to in School Tycoon!Build your school, complete with classrooms, administration offices and athletic facilities. Populate the school with teachers, and attract students to your new house of learning. Upgrade the cafeteria, improve the landscaping, and add entertainment options to increase your popularity with the students. Keep an eye on pupils and make sure they're learning, otherwise it's time for some detention... ... Read more

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Build & Run a Jurassic Theme Park!

Explorer, scientist, zoo-keeper, and showmanyou get to be them all in Dino Island. Unleash your imagination in the dino-creation lab, combining breeds and traits to fashion your own unique species. Design and construct a crowd-pleasing theme park around your new creations and open your doors to the world! It’s your job to keep your visitors and dinos happy.

• Play two Game ModesCampaign & Free Mode.
• Choose your LocationPolynesia, Africa, the Tropics & more!
• Select 20 Species, 30 Skins & 50 Extras in the Dino-Creation Lab.
• Add tons of attractions, shops & thrill rides to complete your Dino Park.

• Cross a Diplodocus with a Brachiosaurus, blast em with radiation and what do you get? Possibly the greatest theme park attraction of all time! Enclose ’em, add some shops, restaurants and rides, and you’ve got the recipe for instant success or disaster. It’s up to you to keep the crowds comin’ in and your new dinosaurs happy!
• How do your dinos stack up? Find out with competitions like the dino race, steeplechase, destruction derby and capture the goat. Rrrrrrrrrrrrr!
• Furnish your park with souvenir shops, burger bars and thrill rides to keep em coming back for more!
• Scaly, feathered, spotted, striped, fierce or friendlymix and match em in the dino-creation lab to create your own hybrids!

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Take off in the world's newest jumbo jet. From the outset, the Airbus A380 was designed to be the largest passenger aircraft. With its unique two story passenger compartment, it can be outfitted to carry 550 passengers up to 8000 miles. The A380 recently made its first appearance to the public in January and is scheduled to make its first test flight in Spring 2005. Due to a huge public relations push, we've all seen lots of pictures and read multiple stories about this exciting new aircraft. ... Read more

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• In addition to the strikingly handsome outer aircraft, youll take notice of the interior. With full 3D virtual cockpit and customized Flight Management Computer (FMC) similar to what is found in the real thing and complete easy-to-follow documentation to learn how to use it. The FMC works with the Flight Simulator's built-in Flight Planner and allows you to fly virtually hands-off except for take-off and landing.
• Fly the Airbus A380 includes enhanced scenery of the Toulouse (France) Airport. The final assembly of the Airbus A380 is performed at the airbus factory located in Toulouse. Fly from Toulouse replete with custom AI traffic.
• This package also includes a series of flights for you to fly that represent authentic passenger routes and schedules including New York to Paris, Chicago to Amsterdam, Singapore to Munich, Los Angeles to Tokyo and more
• Included liveries: Airbus House Colors Singapore Airlines Lufthansa Quantas KLM China Southern Air France Virgin Atlantic Thai British Airways Korean Airlines

Reviews (10)

THE BEST IS EVIL
I'd reccomend this game for one good reason THE EMPIRE ROCKS!!!! this game is a way better improvement in graphics than the original in 94' but still the animated cut scenes.....I can sum all that in to three words...... GET THIS GAME!!!!!!!

The Empire Rocks
Not only does this game incorparate the underappreciated Imperials it does so in a nice way.You get to fly 7 craft!Unlike the old version this game has better sound and grafics.The cutscenes are still old but they fill the bill.You don't just have to fight Y,A,X, and B wings.You fight well detailed Calamari Cruisers,YT-1300 transports (Millenium Falcon)Star Destroyers,Carrack Cruisers and so forth.Great game.

I LOVE THIS GAME
My cousin owns this game, so when I visit, I got to play it. I got adicted on the first time. This is funner than (I'm sorry fans) Tiberian Sun, since you can personaly blow up infinite Y-Wings and X-Wings, which is pretty fun.

If only your battle skills could be used for evil.....
The original Tie Fighter was one of the best space combat games available. The Tie Fighter Collector's Ed. (TFCE) is upgraded over its previousincarnation to support hardware acceleration but that's only for the flightsequences.Between the flying, you'll notice the same old cutscenes aroundthe same less-than photorealistism.The sound is also conspicuouslyimproved - mostly because it to alternates between the true stereo oftodays computers (again in the flying sequences) and the ancient MIDI inthe intervals.

That said, the meat of the game is firmly in Pentiumcountry, with rich colors and textures expected for a latter-day sim, butnot taxing enough to slow down frame-rate on any low-level P200MMX.If youown "X-wing v. Tie Fighter", you'll find the same level ofgraphics, but with more imaginative single-player missions.As a fighterpilot with the dread imperial star fleet, you fly those tiny little insectlike ships that seems to drop like flies in the 3 movies.Besides theexpected campaigns (all pre-scripted, you can't go on until you finish allprimary mission objectives) and "historical" missions, there's anifty pilot's proving ground, an enclosed maze and shooting gallery thatconvincingly recalls the Death Star innards from the 3rd movie.However,the missions require you not only destroy waves of fighters or large ships,but inspect and even capture other ships.Also, a complex storyline sendsimperial starfighters against a variety of enemies, many not quite as nobleas the stalwart rebels.Star Wars is best when highlighting the moralambiguity of its surrounding universe, and Tie Fighter doesn't dissappoint,and your enemies will include Rebel X-wings, but also pirates andprofiteers, defectors and other traitors and various alien races who don'tknow that they need the emperor's permission to war against each other. There's even a clever subplot in which you have two missions - yourcommander's and those of a special imperial emissary.Most of the time,the two are in line, and neither asks you to controvert the orders of theother.It creates a level of depth and suspicion mising from the originalx-wing.

If X-wing collector's ed is this good, I'll pick it up as well. If you've already got the original versions of both games, I'd suggestgetting the new X-wing, since the original was the older of the two andwould have the best improvement.

Great Game!
This is one of the best games I have ever seen! You can fly anything from a TIE fighter to a missile boat! Also you can fight against A,B,X,Y wings and capital ships! ... Read more

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Star Wars: X-Wing Trilogy provides the complete Star Wars space combat experience in a special commemorative gold-foil-stamped package. It includes a message to X-Wing fans from Larry Holland--X-Wing series creator and president of Totally Games--about the history and heritage of the Star Wars flight combat series. Players of Star Wars: X-Wing take the role of a pilot for the Rebel Alliance. During 122 missions players will battle Darth Vader's Imperial forces in small yet powerful X-wings, A-wings, and B-wings. Star Wars: TIE Fighter reverses roles as players aim to restore and enforce Imperial rule by defeating the Rebels. Fly more than 100 missions, including flying as wingman to Darth Vader himself. Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance is a story of betrayal, revenge, and redemption told over 50 single- and multiplayer missions. Ace pilots earn the chance to take part in the Battle of Endor, and may get the chance to pilot the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy: the Millennium Falcon. The bonus sample of Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: Flight School includes 14 Imperial and Rebel missions, both single- and multiplayer. ... Read more

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The Best In Early Star Wars Games
I won't argue that this Trilogy is by far the best in early Star Wars games

A Classic... All together for a great set of games.
The only thing is the game requires a joystick, unlike the previous versions that didn't.Which is alright, no problem.I got one, you got one, if not then there are a slew of wonderful little sticks out there that will sufice.

All of these games are classics, from Xwing until the end... each is among the best there is to offer in the Star Wars gaming.Of course the Xwing and Tiefirhgter are older than Windows...But you can get around that can't you?Here's the lowdown.

Genre: All are Flight Simulation, Space Fighters... meaning that there is no simulation for atmosphereic flight (all 360x360 directions with no gravity... no real sense of up).Which can get annoying if you are just that type of person.

Controls: In exception to your Joystick... not a lot is customizable.Alliance is a more recent game can do a little.They are easy to learn and not complicated by any means, and each program has in in-flight key guide.

Gameplay... Superb.I love them all.I've owned just about every version of Tie-Fighter and find that his game is the better game... though Alliance's better graphics and general quality is newer and better, they are all still the greatest (In comparison to some of the most recent multiplatform fighter games... these are a nice breath of nostalgia.

Xwing is by far the oldest and comes with both extra campaigns, Imperial Pursuit and B-wing.Tie-fighter comes with it's extra add on and Alliance is a full package.This box set gives you everything the individuals have: updated graphics and compatibilities.It's really worth the price when compared to the individual price of each three of these games.... .

I recommend this for anyone who played the games in their older versions.You'll be surprised to see what's changed and how well they are now.I still find myself playing around with them.And the best thing to do is to play around with their mission editors (not included) and make your own missions.Tie-fighter is especially easy to make a mission for.I wouldn't recommend these for younger gamers, since they quality of these games were at their prime in the early 90's, and anything in the computer world that is more than 5 years old is considered antique... but the are collectors.

Awesome! I hail this game!
When I bought X-Wing, I noticed the graphics weren't the best, but when my A-Wing's blasters blew a TIE into space dust, I knew I loved this game.

Awesome! I hail this game!
When I bought X-Wing, I noticed the graphics weren't the best, but when my A-Wing's blasters blew a TIE into space dust, I knew I loved this game.

An Incredible Bargain!
Three of the finest space combat simulators packaged together?And only 30 bucks?That's an incredible bargain in my book.Add the fact that the adventures are set in the Star Wars universe and I'm left with only one question: What on earth (or a galaxy far, far, away) are you waiting for?Add this software to your collection today!!! ... Read more

Features

• 80 different buildings including sports arenas, cathedrals, airports, and more
• As the newly installed dictator of a Caribbean island, create a good life for your people
• Various internal and external political facets and activities; follow a socialist or capitalist path
• Build your population from a mere 35 to a bustling 500 unique individuals
• More than 45 different characters with up to 50 separate attributes for each

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Addictive SIMS-style game with a salsa flavor
I really don't recall my first week owning the game - except that my people seemed to always oust me after about 20 years.Unfortunately, I am just too nice a guy - and it is difficult to build an economy, ensure proper housing, keep job satisfaction high, etc.So I kept trying, honing my strategies, trying different scenarios, and then building my own islands.I've had the game for several months now and I'm still hooked.I often think about strategies in my off time.But why is the game so appealing?

There is the fantasy aspect.As compared to the SIMS (a game I find boring), where things occur in suburbia, or at least a place readily familiar, tropical islands hold appeal for the average poor soul trapped in (my case) the midwestern U.S.Tropical islands are sexy, otherwise we wouldn't spend so much effort and money vacationing on them.The game does a good job setting up a tropical feel (the music, the scenery, the accent of the narrator/assistant.

There is the lure of power.The association of your dictator with Castro is intentional.Here is you chance to either become the dictator that you know him to be, or to make up for his sins and shortcomings.Of course, many of the aspects of game-play are configurable, therefore, one can determine which of these shortcomings you wish your dictator to possess.

The level of involvement.Dictators, whether benevolent or not, are involved in the day-to-day lives of their people.Here you can monitor conversations, political beliefs, happiness, etc.There is a lot of information at your disposal, though you must discern the useful from the useless.

The historical edge.As mentioned previously, the association with Castro seems intentional - after all, he is the most familiar dictator to many Americans.However, the game includes histories of several other dictators in its instructional pamphlet.Thus, you feel that you are learning something as you while away the hours.

Overall, I found the game entertaining, at the top of its genre.If you like SIMS-style games, I recommend that you give this one a whirl.

Addictive, inventive Sim
I prefer this type of game, as it's impossible to get stuck. I get frustrated with games where it becomes impossible to progress, either because of a glitch, or because some obstacle is basically impossible to pass, even with walkthroughs. This doesn't happen with Sims.

Tropico runs fine on my iBook G3 800 MHz with 640 MB, running Panther. I haven't had to adjust performance or anything.

The game sets you up as President of a small Carribean island, and you have to decide what to build, what to pay your workers, how much to embezzle, within a tight budget. There is a lot of complexity - more than in the Sims, for instance, and I am still exploring all the possible options, after a month of playing with the game. I haven't got into building TV stations, or imprisoning my enemies, for example, as I haven't had to fine tune to that extent.

Tropico is easy to learn, and there are three tutorial games included, which allow you to learn how some of the key parts of the game work. After that, you can either just run the sim as you want, or you can follow one of the 30 or so predefined challenges, where you have to build an airport, or embezzle a certain amount of money, or generate a particular level of tourist revenue, within a given time frame. These challenges are quite difficult, and require you to use all of the functions in the game.

I find it easy to get hooked on a game in the evening, and it's very hard to put the computer aside until I've run through a scenario. The good thing about Tropico is that there are varying levels, so relative novices can run through a game with no problems, but that doesn't mean you get bored, as there are plenty of features to explore at more challenging levels. Definitely a keeper!

If you like the Sims ... you will like Tropico :)
I was hesitant when buying this game because the graphics looked great, and I was not sure if my pc could handle them.Although my computer is pretty old, Tropico runs quickly and efficiently.I have never run out of new scenarios, and find something new every time I play this game.I would certainly reccomend this product, particularly at this low cost!

Fun game, horrible port
This game is fun and addictive. However its performance leaves much to be desired. I have a PowerBook G4 667MHz, 768MB of RAM, with a Radeon 7500 32MB VRAM video card, and this game slows to a crawl when the population of the islands goes above 150 individuals.

Its performance is just ridiculous. My computer's specs are way above the system requirements listed on the game's box, yet I can barely play the game most of the time! I have tried everything to boost the software's performance. I've turned off all of the fancy graphics features (I've even turned off display of trees and vegetation, ground textures, etc.). Just to see if the game would run any faster, I've even reinstalled OS 9 (I am running Panther right now) to run the it. Under OS 9, it does perform a little better, but not much. The game would run well for a bit, then it would freeze for a couple of minutes to do calculations before I can get on with the game again.

This is unfortunate, because I really like the game play, but its performance is just not acceptable.

With Tropico, You Rule!
Macsoft's port of PopTop's fabulous "Tropico: Mucho Macho Edition" is more game than you could imagine for such a low price.At under twenty dollars you get the original Tropico, plus the expansion pack Paradise Island.

Tropico puts you in charge of a Caribbean island circa 1950.Your job is to run your fledgling island nation - how you choose to do so is up to.Will you rule with an authoritative hand and build a strong army and policy force to squelch those Tropicans you dare speak against you?Will you fulfill the every need of your people or leave them wishing (or raging) for churches, schools, jobs, homes and entertainment?

The game is abundant with details, from the buildings to the people.In one easy click you can find out individual statistics on any Tropican, including age, family, job, home, likes, dislikes, education, and whether they will be voting for you in the next election.

You can play a free form game or choose one of the many scenarios included with the game.The scenarios, ranging from easy to ridiculously hard (and they mean it), will help to expand your horizons and push your limits, which will in turn enrich your free form game experience as your explore new goals.

My main gripe with this game is that it just plain won't run well enough to be worth the bother if you aren't running a system well past the requirements.It can run under both classic mode and OS X though I would advise booting into classic to run the game unless you have a top of the line machine. ... Read more

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Maxis' Sim line of games has sold more than 7 million copies over time. Ten years after releasing the original, they've returned to revamp the one that started it all. SimCity 3000, like its predecessors, can't be won or lost. You create and manage the best virtual city you can, using the colorful but simple interface. At worst you'll run out of money, but by listening to your advisers and patiently zoning, developing, and budgeting, you'll see your turn-of-the-century homes become millennial skyscrapers.

You can start with a fictional model, a randomly generated terrain, or a landscape based on a real geographic location. As you balance transit, commercial, and industrial needs (to name a few), place famous landmarks (like the Eiffel Tower), make deals with neighboring cities, and limit pollution, you'll be tempted to lose yourself in the incredibly fine detail. Zooming in shows the population strolling and traffic jamming, and the ambient soundscape completes the immersion. If you feel like you've seen it all, Maxis's Web site offers new maps and buildings as free downloads. Fair warning to prospective tenants: to experience SimCity 3000 in all its uptown splendor, you'll need to take the system requirements seriously. --Jack Gardiner ... Read more

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Remake of sim city 2000
Although this game has better graphics than the original and sim city 2000 it is just the same old thing.A remake of a fun game with newer and better graphics.

One of the best
First of all let me say that I'm not a "gamer" so pardon me if I'm not up to par with lingo etc.

Now I'm free to say that this is probably one of the best games I've ever played. I'm a SimCity 2000 vet and was eagerly anticipating this one, and it's everything you want it to be. Enhanced features, better details, great interaction, it still has it's humerous edge (if you've played SimCity you know what I mean, it's a funny game), and the great music (honestly, we need a SimCity soundtrack ;), just kidding). Personally I love the enhanced terrain editing tool, the new cheats, building/facility selection, the graphics, the new (and somewhat amusing) characters, and the more up-to-date graphs and charts and advisors that let you know how your city is doing. It is missing some of the things that SimCity 2000 had like disasters (if you liked that stuff, they could be fun) and the arcologies, but they are replaced with a more user friendly interface, interesting scenarios and offers from neighbor cities and businessmen, a very fun gaming atmosphere, and a royal selection of great new features that make this superior to SimCity 2000 in my book, and up there as my personal favorite game.

Disappointing
It takes more than amazing graphics and extra features to make a great game.Case and point, SimCity 3000 and SimCity 2000.SimCity 3000 has far superior graphics than SimCity 2000.However, the gameplay is so slow (just barely acceptable on a 867G4 with 640MB of RAM) that the coolness factor of the graphics gets lost in frustration.SimCity 2000 had amazing performance even on classic Mac Performas.SimCity 3000 requires twice the minimal requirements, i.e, the fastest G4 at the time, if you expect to play the game at some modicum of speed.The extra features of SimCity 3000, though nice, are not extensive enough to warrant a whole new product rather than a simple patch.Nothing was done to the overall depth and gameplay of the game and much could have been done.It really saddens me that Maxis was bought out by Electronic Arts, a Mac-unfriendly software producer.This unfriendliness is evident in the look of many elements in the SimCity 3000 interface.For example, take a look at the Windows-like Open File interface.Electronic Arts is more friendly to Linux users than Mac users.Overall, this is a terrible, unoptimized port of SimCity 3000 for Windows to the Macintosh.Software MacKiev did a poor job.Definitely pales in quality to the Aspyr Media port of The Sims for Macintosh.Also, do not be surprised if this is the last SimCity game you will see for the Macintosh for a long time.

Fine, butSim City 2000 was much better
Sim City 3000, overall, wasn't a horrible game. Compare to some other "Sim" games, and it looks great (SimTower). However, compare it to Sim City 2000, and it stinks. The interface is slower, and less instinctive. The cartooniness also isn't great. The new ideas, such as lobbyists, deals, and garbage are good, but not enough. Changes in the electric system and others parts of 2000, while more realistic, make the game slightly less enjoyable. If given the choice however, choose the better gameplay of 2000 over this glitzy game.

Blah!
SimCity 2000 was far and away one of the most addicting games I had ever played.Well, when I heard that SimCity 3000 was coming out, I could not wait to see what kind of improvements they had made.Well, imagine my surprise when I had found that this great game series had actually taken a step back in terms of gameplay.The visuals in the new SimCity are fantastic though.I love being able to zoom on down to street level and see the people walking down the sidewalk and [stuff] piling up in people’s yards, but this does not make up for the lack of enjoyment I feel when I play this game.It seems like no matter what I do in this game, the industrial areas just continue to get filthy and look [bad].Perhaps this game really is more of a challenge than the original in that respect, but I’ll stick to the ease and fun of the original anyday! ... Read more

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Participate in seven new missions with even better art and more intricate plots. The three new Starship classes--Oberth, Akira, and Prometheus--are capable of sending two ships out on the same mission at the same time. With 12 new commands in the mission scripting language, Starship Creator Add-On allows you to create more exciting engines. And now you can import JPEG photos (for Windows users) to more easily make your friends and family captain and crew! ... Read more

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You know...
in Warp two theres a Update featre in the options menu that will allow you to add the miranda, excelisor, oberth, and prometheus classes so you can have all the ship in one program.... i thought the game originally was well crap because it implied that you could also captain the ships in the missions. well i was wrong but now that Warp 2 made an addon where you could export certain ships to dominion wars is cool. but i want to export all my designs!

Every Trekkers Dream?
Well, it's pretty cool being about to "build" or I should say "mutilate" you own starship, but they game isn't quite for any real trekker.Aside from the frew problem I've had running it, they ships themselve are the real problem.I was very disappointed in that the equipment that you install on the ship isn't really what's on them.The Sovereign class shihp doesn't live up to the movies at all.In First Contact, we clearly see that the Enterprise-E has a holodeck.Well, in SSC there isn't an option to install such a device on the ship.Granted, the Enterprise-E may not be a scientifically oriented as the Enterprise-D, but only half of the sensors that are on the D are on the E in the SSC.As well as the lack of ANY labs on the Enterprise-E.It has the same type of warp engines as the Enterprise-D but it's slower than a 100-year old Constitution class ship."The most advanced starship in the fleet..." is only capable of doing half the missions.And even then, only half as well as a lowly Miranda class vessel which can do atleast eighty percent of them.Voyager could stand some tweaking...where did the astophysics lab go?All in all, the intrepid class ship is good.Defiant, a warship, with a cloaking device which serves no purpose in the game.Excelsior, as fast and better than the Voyager?Mayber Excelsior is bigger so more things can go on her, but she isn't more capable all around than Voyager.In Advanced mode, the ships have to be perfectly balanced.Meaning that you need to maake the Enterprise-D exactly what the Engineering Manual say is should be.Well, more mistakes are here.The Enterprise-D has 12 phaser banks (including the one hidden on the Star Drive Section) yet only Six can be installed. Really, I think it is still a lot of fun to play with, but when you like the Sovereign class vessel a lot (like I) and it turn out to be one of the least capable ships, it kinda turns you off to the whole thing.Mike Okuda needed to help S&S on this project and if he did, well, I don't write Star Trek, but it has flaw that conflict severely with Star trek movies and showsalike.Finally, its a cheap game.It'll entertain you for a few weeks or months and afew years from now you'll play with it again, maybe, so I suggest you get it.Nothing else like it exist and if you a Mac user you can play this.(I really feel sorry for all Mac users.Great computers, but no one wants to make great games for then like Klingon Academy, and Dominion Wars)Get it, play with it, and have fun.If you're not a Trekologist like myself (I know, I'm a nerd) then you'll have a blast and won't be hung up on these discrepancies.

Star Trek Starship Creator Add-On Pack
This is the best Starship Creator game EVER!!!!!!! I love the Akira and Prometheus ships. Its better than Starship Creator WARP II.

ST:SC add on
This is a much better deal than Starship creator delux.

Okay game
Starship Add on pack is a good game for star trek fans, but it won't keep your intrest for any great length of time, Creating the starships is fun, but the missions are extremely boring, and there are only a limited amountof them. This game can be more intresting if you download your own picturesfor crewmembers and take the time to program your own missions. ... Read more

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Combat Pilot
I like anyone who likes the P-38 and the P-51B. It would be nicer if it had the P-61.

Nice aircraft selection
Some of the nicest retail aircraft for CFS available.The P-38 and P-51B are especially nice.

great planes
these are the best planes that i have found for cfs. they are better than abacus. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

If it's a consideration in real-world piloting, it's a consideration in Fly!. First, pick your plane. Then configure and prepare it for flight. Set fuel levels for the entire aircraft, or set the levels in each tank individually. Adjust weight load by pulling up cargo and passenger diagrams. Add or remove passengers. Adjust cargo placement. The aircraft's center of gravity will change accordingly until you judge it's safe to take flight.

Expect the environment to be as real as the planes. The 3-D volumetric clouds allow you to temporarily fly blind or to practice keeping a safe distance. You can also define the weather environment by importing the daily NOAA METAR weather data online. Fly! automatically configures the weather in the simulation to match.

The 25-meter LandSat satellite imagery of five major cities provides 50,000 continuous square miles of high-resolution ground detail. Over certain areas, 5-meter IRS-C1 satellite images allow for increased ground resolution. Outside of the satellite areas, there is a 5-meter generic terrain tile appropriate to that land type--scenery from around the globe! ... Read more

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WHAT WERE THEY THNKING????????????????????????????
Can we say "STUPID". this game is Horrible! don't buy it! the only wy to get in the air that I know of is to start in a level that you start in the Air. that or the ludicrous mode in which you actually gain total control of the plane, so you can go backwards and straight up and not run into a glitch.

FLY!, FLY! 2K,FLY! II, BUT FLY!!!!
I have my private pilot licence, since I am 24 years old. There is pilots in the family. And I found FLY! 2K, 3 years ago. And I ensure you that I find that those which did not hold the commands of a Cesna, or of a Cherokee Piper, in their hands, must find the landings difficult. However, I continue to Fly, and to make "virtual" mess. I am not bored. It is always a new adventure each flight. I recommend to take your time. Start with staing in the airs. Then practice your takeoffs, with the assistance of the computer, for the "check List". The worst is to land. It does not matter the way, the virtual one or reality. And I still have the same feeling of my first takeoff, it is always like the first time.
Taste the look of the landscape. Take your time.

the best flight sim
this game is lot of fun to fly

Unbelivable
I bought the game Fly.It took a very long time to learn how to play and even longer to install it.It's quiet good after all that, if you read the whole User Manual which is 288 pages of small sized letters and complicated notes you have to remember or at least remember the page number.If you don't the only way to move is if the gust speeds are high.Then your flipped over!Otherwhise, this game is a bomb.I don't recomend it.Now the graphics are good, but they're installed seperatly.It's okay to get, if you have .5 GB to spare.Same thing with the maps.

A Very Good Sim!
This is a very good sim of piloting an aircraft! Very accurate details and wonderful voice communications. I showed this to a private pilot and he was amazed at the acuracy of the program. Early versions were very buggy. Runsvery well on my iMac DV with 128mg RAM ... Read more

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This Game is so Fun!
This game is for girls only.It lets you yes you be yourself.You can have quizzes that only girls can answer.You even can to do magic.Trust me this game is AWSOME!That is the fun in girls! ... Read more

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JeetLiner- Flight Simulator
JetLiner is a fantastic flight simulator with airplanes models suchaas the 737-300, 747-400, 767-300, and the 777-200. The game is a very exciting ADD-ON TO MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR. JetLiner's newcomers can do a shuttleor experienced players a long flight, facing many obstacles. Bad weather,fog, wind conditions... etc. I enjoyed the product, but buyer and gamerbeware this game does NEED Microsoft Flight Simulaotr(s) 95 or 98.-CJK ... Read more

Features

• 3D interactive railroad simulation game
• Choose from more than 50 authentic real world trains from famous railroads around the globe
• Create your own routes and worlds, or set industry production levels as operations manager
• Control one or more locos and issue orders to other drivers
• For 1 player

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Great Train Simulator and a fantastic value!
First, let's understand what we're looking at here. TRS 2004 is an advanced 3D Railroad simulation, which can take a decent amount of computing horsepower to provide an enjoyable experience. Those who don't bother to read the system recommendations and requirements on the box or on Auran's Website (such as those amazed that a "graphics card" is needed) will probably be somewhat disappointed when their 5 year old computer doesn't run it well. Most people with a fairly new, fairly powerful computer should find that it runs sufficiently. If your computer can run games such as Far Cry and Doom 3, it should have no problem running Trainz. Again, check the requirements BEFORE purchasing, or don't whine about it later. That being said, TRS 2004 is a wonderful world of railroading. There are so many different aspects to the program, that almost everyone is sure to find something of interest. If you like creating your own worlds fron scratch, you can do it. If you simply want to watch the trains run, you can do it. If you want to drive the trains, you can do it. If you're interested in the assets management aspect such as providing fuel for the power plant, power for the other industries, etc., you can do that. If you want to build and paint your own 3D scenery items, engines and rolling stock, you can do that as well, with the included Paint Shed and the free downloadable GMax, which is a scaled down version of Discreet's 3DStudio Max.

It's amazing how one person can complain that it doesn't come with enough items, and then also complain that those items take up 1.5 gigs of hard drive space. Granted, out of the box TRS 2004 doesn't come with everything you could ever want to run on your railroad, but it does come with a sufficient amount of engines, rolling stock and scenery items from around the world to more than adequately get you started. Add to that over 39,000 additional free items, mainly created by a large and active 3rd party development community conveiniantly archived at Auran's Download Station, and there's an amazing array of just about everything you could want. While downloading larger items for free can be time consuming, faster download speeds are available for an incredible price of under $10 per year, which helps to defray the cost of providing the servers the content is stored on. The support provided by the program's authors is amazing, both via online forums, a helpdesk, and through live online chat sessions. It isn't unusual to catch some of the principles of the company such as the CEO or members of the design team online and answering questions or giving details about forthcoming improvements. Imagine going online and finding Bill Gates providing support for some of Microsoft's products. Of course, that won't ever happen, but that's what you'll find from Auran.

It isn't the perfect program (what program is?). There are a few issues and features which could be better, but at least the people who wrote it are interested and active in making it better. If you like trains, you just might find all of your free time being taken by this program. I've personally spent the last 3 years with this and previous incarnations of this product, and I can truthfully say, in terms of value received compared to price paid, it's both the best and cheapest program I own. Endless hours of enjoyment to be had by fans of all ages is truly priceless.

Total Failure
It came on two CDs and you eventually discover that the second CD holds the software which is needed to fix the bugs on the first.

You also need a graphics card or equivalent.

I do not have the graphics capability so although it appeared to load it would not run.

I shall give it away or bin it.

24/7 Fun-Filled Excitement
Our 6 year old son has been FASCINATED with trains for a few years now (like most boys) and he has played other train software programs.However, when he found TRAINZ on google and liked what he saw . . . we purchased this program for his enjoyment.Well, I gotta tell ya, setting it up was alittle on the "higher" learning curve but now . . . we cannot get him off of this program.AMAZING for us to watch him (6yo) paint the train (Paint Shed), create the track layout including town, cars, and run his trains.

Now . . . he is teaching mom and dad how to run the program.

Listen, if your CHILD is interested in TRAINS . . . . this program is a MUST BUY!!!!You will be "AMAZED" beyond comprehension on the graphics and simplicity of this smooth program.Additionally, you will enjoy countless hours watching your child "dream" and play an educational program and LEARN!!!

Cheers . . . Joe and Jan, Oak Harbor, WA, USN.

game is not practical
I just purchase the game so I could play it, I didn't program it, somebody else did, shouldn't have to configure and fix all the issues associated with this game. You can spend countless hours trying to get this game to configure on your computer and I can't get it to work.Most average people buy/own average computer, (dell, hp,....etc)This game runs if you want to purchase aftermarket video cards, build your own tower and waste time updating drivers and configure it once it gets installed.Shouldn't have to do this to play a game.When I go to a resturant the food is served to me hot, fresh, I don't have to go back there and cook it.When I buy a new car and need new tires I don't have to update my axle to support the new tires, just unloosen the lug nuts take old tires off, put new tires on the rims and tighten down the lug nuts,oh I pay some guy in the garage to do this too.This game is a complete waste of time, I am not a graphic junky, if I want that realistic look I would have become a real train engineer.I have installed many simulation games on my computer and never had trouble until now.

My Son Loves It
I bought my son this simulation for his birthday (8th).He loves it.It runs well on our computer and has only crashed when he loaded up a layout with zillions of objects (hundreds of cows, cars, houses and such). (Win98SE, Athlon 1800XP, 512 Meg, ATI8500 or NVidia 5600).He learned the editor and driver with only a few hours help from me.He spends hour after hour experimenting with the editor tools, looking through the object list, creating complex layouts, and running trains.
This is one heck of deal!A solid product at a great price that kids love.You can't beat it. ... Read more

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What is your favorite aircraft to fly?With Airport Factory 99, you design your own flying machine. From huge airliners with tons of metal, to stealth warplanes, your fleet will be Microsoft Flight Simulator compatible. Laemming Wheeler, an icon in the flight simulator world, has developed significant improvements for this version, including an upgraded interface. ... Read more

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Awefull, Doesn't Work well at All!!!!
DON'T GET THIS GAME. It is a major pain to design the most basic plane. The interface is confussing and its not worth learning. Because once you finally design your own aircraft, It has to fly like one of the existing planes that comes with your flight simulator and it does not feel like your flying the plane you just made. A GOOD IDEA GONE BAD.

it's wonderful
I ove how you can design planes

It does the job at a decent price
This program makes it fairly easy to generate a simple aircraft and place it in Flight Simulator. When you generate your first aircraft, it really helps to closely follow the manual's tutorial.That will answer a lot ofquestions.

While the artwork portion of the program remains a bit of amystery, it is clear that if you stick with it, you'll get there.I amsatisfied enough to purchase Custom Panel Designer from the same company.

A MUST for Microsoft FS fans
This is a must to buy with either FS98 or FS2K. Then you can build your own favorite airplanes to fly around. I was able to build with the wizard about 5 airplanes in under 3 hours. Much better then trying to do it byhand. ... Read more

Reviews (4)

X Plane
If you ask me, I think that this is the most realistic flight simulator for Mac's.I play this game all the time and I learn new stuff evertime when I fly around to different places.

The most realistic flight simulator
This is definately the most realistic flight sim. In other flight sims, a flight model is used, that tells the simulator what the flying object should behave like in given conditions. In X-Plane however, the flight dynamics are calculated during the game based on the flying surfaces present on the object in question. The result is an extremely versatile and realistic flight simulator that allows you to fly some of the world's strangest planes (like the Pogo, V22 Osprey or the Space Shuttle!!) along with the world's most simplistic planes (Gliders and Cessnas)

The autopilot is excellent for flying long distances, I have had no trouble so far flying across the continent. (west coast to east coast)

The downside is that most of the terrain is pretty featureless. Bad if all you want to do is fly around buildings. The game does allow the user to build custom objects, so in theory you could build the golden gate bridge and fly around it and under it if you like. It takes time to build good scenery.

Using the tools included, you can even build your own plane based on your own specifications. How would you like your own flying car? Someone even has made a model of the International Space Station. You can download them all

Great Sim, but flawed
This is a terrific flight simulator, but it has some serious flaws.Because the world is modeled as flat, long flights do not function properly. Distant bearings are often not correct, one can't fly over the dateline, and worst of all, the ground shakes violently after significant distances are flown.In addition, though the flight model is vastly better than most sims, there are problems in the flight model that prevent acrobatic manuvers in planes that should should be able to handel them (loops don't work well at all). Finaly, the scenery is bland and although there are tools to improve it, the tools are themselves quite limited.There is hope, though, because Laminar Research is constantly adding to and fixing X-Plane. Perhaps a round world and acrobatics are in X-Plane's future. Only the developer knows for sure.

Simply Amazing
I've used x-plane for over 3 years now and find it to be the most versatile and entertaining flight sim around. I even used it to practice when I was studying for my own pilot's license. It's feature rich as well with tons of different planes and situations available. Would have gotten five stars if it supported a round earth model and provided more detailed scenery. Don't let these two things discourage you from getting the best mac flight sim around. ... Read more