Microsoft To Give ‘Microsoft Flight’ Away for Free? - mclachlanlaze1999

It looks like Microsoft Flight, Microsoft's informal-friendly vamp of its Flight Sim series, testament in conclusion be available this spring — what's more, it'll be downloadable and won't cost a thing.

To vanish around Hawaii, that is: Yep, information technology appears Microsoft Flight testament be freemium. Microsoft says the freebie version will apply players "the exemption to fly the skies over the beautiful Big Island of Hawai'i, out-and-out a kind of exciting missions, test their skills in flying challenges, OR come up hidden aerocaches on the island." Sign in with your Games for Windows LIVE history, adds Microsoft, and you'll receive additional free content, from extra missions to "the legendary Boeing Stearman plane" (it sounds like MS Flight will also support game achievements).

What'll you fly round the Aloha State off the block? Looks like the ICON A5 (pictured above), a light lark abou aircraft that South Korean won't fit into real-world production until late 2012. Microsoft describes the Picture A5 atomic number 3 "a high-wing amphibious monoplane with a carbon fiber airframe and a comfortable, automobile-inspired cockpit with space for two," noting it was premeditated by the aeronautical engineers responsible for the Voyager spacecraft, SpaceShipOne (an X-Lottery winner), and Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.

If you want full experience, course, you'll have to pay up. Microsoft ISN't saying what that'll cost, alone that you'll be able to buy in and download "additional content that adds new aircraft, regions and customization options." The caller plans to waiver "daily aerocache challenges," too (aerocache appears to make up a ready-made-functioning word that's just another way of saying "hidden piece of sky").

As for the game itself, I'll make the mike to Microsoft for a minute:

In "Microsoft Flight," players view the world from above in a visually stunning and realistic representation of the earth, complete with neighborhood-specific weather patterns, foliage, terrain and landmarks. Players can choose to necessitate the helm using highly rendered, straight cockpits and authentic piloting procedures, or plainly use their mouse and keyboard to control the plane in an outside view. Much experienced players commode tailor the fledge controls to gibe their skill equal, making "Microsoft Flight" easy for beginners while still provocative for the most established PC pilots.

There's also a unexampled video up (well, supposedly — all I construe are 5 undated webisodes) which you keister view here (click the 'video' tab at left).

And if you neediness in on the closed beta, the airdock doors to sign of the zodiac up are formally open.

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