Microsoft Flight Simulator is available today with Xbox Game Pass subscription.
All Xbox owners with an Xbox Game Pass subscription can download Microsoft Flight Simulator today. As we have already reported several times, the approximately 100 GB download is already available as a pre-load and the game is available from 5:00 p.m. today.
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Ready for takeoff
Fold up your tables and bring your seats into an upright position: The Microsoft Flight Simulator is about to take off. After the technically impressive simulation was released for the PC last year, Microsoft is now also sending a version for the Xbox Series X | S afterwards. You can find out whether this is just as enthusiastic in our test. Microsoft has made a preliminary version available to us for this. Thanks a lot for this!
As the name suggests, the Microsoft Flight Simulator is a real simulation of modern flying. With a total of 20 authentic aircraft, from the agile Cessna to the mighty Boeing 747, you will take off from one of the more than 37,000 airfields worldwide into the freedom of the sky. Because in a technical masterpiece, the Microsoft Flight Simulator manages to map the entire earth without visible loading times and on an authentic scale!
This is made possible by Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, because although the Microsoft Flight Simulator itself already takes up a good 100 gigabytes on your hard drive, the real magic lies in the cloud. During your flights, the game downloads satellite and image data from Microsoft's in-house map service Bing Maps, assuming a fast and stable internet connection, in order to build a high-resolution virtual world for you. Almost 2,000 terabytes of data feed your tours around the globe - and this wealth of data is worthwhile.
Thirty well-known airports as well as numerous large cities and sights were modeled by hand. But replicating every house and every forest around the world true to the original, even Microsoft's wallet cannot do that. And this is exactly where the cloud and an in-house AI come into play, which generates true-to-the-original 3D models from the Bing data as well as possible. This looks deceptively real, especially from a distance, even if one or the other building turns out to be "cheating" when flying low.
The use of the maps data has another advantage. While in other open world games such as Forza Horizon 4 or The Crew city cores are recreated but compressed in terms of area, you really get the whole world on offer in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Just as you can experience it in the real world and look it up on a map service. This also means that your street, your house, your former elementary school, your favorite stadium can be found and experienced from the air. Here, however, outside of the big metropolises, randomly generated houses are used that do not have much in common with the real buildings. That is definitely enough for an authentic experience from the air.
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