Having a hard time being humble? The lack of a true challenge got you down? Well, hot shot, whip out your liquid-cooled credit card and sign up for a tour of duty with Bob "Groucho" Marks in Aces High, HiTech Creation's massive multiplayer flight sim.

http://www.3dfiles.com/games/aceshigh.shtml

Is there really any weather?

Glad to see you’re still here

I downloaded ‘Aces’ a while ago, after reading up on it. Haven’t played it online as yet, the phone bills/play charges here are a bit too steep for my liking…But when an isp comes up a free online package in my little village, then it may be time to try the online fun.

I agree with you on the terrain/sky thing…sight seeing does get a bit dull after a while, though given that it’s supposed to be a combat arena, virtual tourism is not what you’re there for.

The only niggles I had with it were ; a/ The majority of the engine sounds are too limp/same, you push the throttle to the firewall and it doesn’t sound like the engines straining at all, you just get that 3/4 hearted drone. (Though as I remember there are some alternatives you can download, to spice them up.) b/ As you mentioned before about seeing thru things, that you shouldn’t be able to, c/ The tracer trails always seem to point in the same direction…

But these things are made up for, by the virtue of being able to fly so many different ‘classic’ planes, that are modeled very nicely, the flight models are excellent, no wishy washy dummed down affairs here
I think my personal fav’s have to be the Macchi and the Tiffy. I’m still amazed that they’ve managed to stuff so much into a small amount of code…Make you wonder about what the rest have been doing ??

Great review, got it bang on !!

I used to fly the P-38 Lightning in Air Warrior. It had a good sustained turn rate, but a horrible roll rate. You really needed to boot that rudder hard to get all the roll assistance you could.

I think I'll check out AH. Sounds like it's worth a try...at least offline...

The 8 player, H2H play isn't bad though, is free and has Corsairs, now appearently carriers too. Most of the sims I buy I only do for the online aspect anyhow. Hmm, 8 players, no real missions but it's online, PTO feeling, sounds like another sim I bought from a Big Gaming Company (tm) last year; but this one actually works well in multiplayer (hey it's made for it) from what I've seen in H2H mode. Maybe someone should post a head's up on the CFS2 forum, ooops did I say that?

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- Uttered by Schatt on Kali, 22:36, January 03, 2001