What our customer's say!

"Good for its time, but now it is dated...", FS2000 was an INCREDIBLE program when it came out around 2000 (go figure...) but for the year 2006-2007, I would HIGHLY suggest FSX, if you computer can handel it. It is an incredible ammount more realistic!!! If FSX is too powerful for you, I suggest getting FS2004. It is a great program, with TONS of addons and a great comunity around it. Its computer specs aren't nearly as demanding as FSXs, but still, don't expect any of these programs to run smoothly on that $500 computer from Best Buy.

"Not a review - just a heads-up", I got this game a few years back as a steal, thinking that my P4 wouldn't satisfactorily run "FS 2002", or that the differences between the two were minor enough to obviate the higher price of the "newer" game. With the release of the even newer version (ACOF), I got a bargain price on '02, and found it ran at least as nice as FS 2000, and had more fluid atmospheric effects (including - at last - movable waves). Add-On aircraft are more easily sorted on 2002 than 2000, and the old game gains less in of an edge in framerate on 2002 than it lost over FS 98. In short, by now any decent machine will run 2002 without hiccups. You don't need FS 2000 anymore.

"An exciting, learning experience", I have long wanted to get into the left hand seat of an airplane, and MS FS does an excellent job of that. With even a rudimentary understanding of flight principals, I can get off the ground andget back down again. I find the tutorials are thorough and easy to understand. Like my son's and their games, I keep bypassing the tutorials and going right for the "fun" elements: flying a 737 into my home airport, attempting takeoff in the Concorde. THere are tremendous online resources where you can download additional aircraft, paint schemes, etc.

My only complaint so far: the Help section is absolutely the least intuitive and help-oriented I have ever seen for a MS product. Very little detail and drill down available. I guess I'll have to fork out the [money]and get the 3rd party guide.

Advice: get a joystick! A mouse or key commands are poor substitutes for a control yoke

"Honestly, THE BEST OF THE BEST", I have just bought this game for only 30 dollars! and i get a $20 mail in rebate! what could be better than this. I started downloading and it took me about 10 minutes since the game has 2 disks. I went to start flying a plane and the graphics were ok. The beginning was a little tough since you have to get to know the game but after only 15 minutes it was pretty easy. You need a 500mhz computer or better to play the game.I have tried playing X plane and it wasnt better than FS200. So i strongly recommend Fs 2000 because its cheap and it teaches you like you were a real pilot. Did you know that pilots train with this game sometimes. And also i strongly also recommend a joystick.

"Cool game but your alone.", Flight simulator 2000 is a very detailed game. The only things I don't like about are,

You are alone in the air, Theirs Very rarely any air traffic, and if their is it's only a plane or two.

Also if you plan your own flight by wsing the flight planner mode, don't even bother going through all the trouble finding the right nav, com, and transponder code because it's no use. The radios don't work at all in flight plan mode.

Also, I strongly recommend getting a joystick if you decide to get this game. Knowing from my experiences it is very hard to fly a plane yust using the arrow keys.

Don't get me wrong, this is a pretty cool game if your into flight sims.

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"Just another warmed over game.", Microsoft, in their "infinite wisdom",has decided to warm over their FS98 version with this "clunker". After gobbling up more than 1 gigabyte of hard drive to do a custom load they still want you to do a lot of CD swapping just to play the game. At least with FS98, you can load it and play it off your hard drive. Iv'e spent more time loading and, swapping cd's than I have playing FS2000. Nothing too "whoopee" about their so called improved graphics either. A few little "frills" here and, there. I'm sure MS is proud of the fact that to start the game you have to verify each time by loading the CD's, taking from 1 to 3 minutes. "bummer".

"As accurate as FS98 in geography----Not !", I have FS98 and both Combat simms, so I bought this one when it came out and although visually impressive, it had so many glitches in the rendering of the geographical boundaries between land and water that I would only give it one star. That was not the only problem, the controls were rearranged by someone who never used FS98 and you will not like the change . Inputed dedaults do not stay after one use, auto pilots dont work, and the lake I live near is unrecognisable. It seems all the effort went into the simulated terrain and major cities and geographical accuracy went out the window.Flight simm 98 is still the most geographicaly accurate flight simm that Microsoft produces.When I fly at my hometown airport I can not recognise where I am once in the air, It is that bad.

"Choppy, chunky, clunky", Got this and the Sidewinder II force feedback stick for Christmas. I couldn't WAIT to play it, so I installed it on my mother-in-law's NEW Celeron machine right a way... BIG mistake! The box grossly understates the requirements, but it says "Pentium", and it MEANS "Pentium"! Don't even try on a fast (500 MHz) Celeron. At home, I installed on a 400 MHz PII, 128 MB ram, and set the visuals to a compromise point, so I could at least get 15 frames/sec.

I think they should have ditched some of the thousands of airstrips, and save the space for better terrain detail. Flying over flat, blocky, repeated aerial photos just isn't that exciting. Trying to please everyone in the world by putting in their local po-dunk airport has make the overall product suck. It is fun to fly out of your hometown once, but since there is a tremendous lack of detail, the novelty quickly fades.

The 3D buildings have poor detail, and dynamic scenery, like clouds, are always "popping" up in your face as the machine frantically tries to keep up. This creates a huge lack of details in the distance, and an unrealistic feel. It is much easier to fly at night, because the shimmery, blocky ground graphics do not distract you. Flying VFR (visual) should be easier, but the detail is so poor, you can't tell one road from another.

When you land, there is nowhere to really go, except up again. There is nothing to greet you at the airport terminal - not even traffic to avoid. If you can even find your way to the terminal, that is. Again, the ground detail makes it very difficult to see where you are going. The terminals are just static blocks. It would be fun to actually deliver your passengers to the gate, or something. It would be cool to have a "passenger meter", showing the discomfort of your passengers when you pull some serious negative G's in a 737. Some screams and cheers in the background would be appropriate, and would give some sense of accountability when you barrel roll through the Grand Canyon!

The force feedback to the SideWinder blows. It felt like I had a gator by the tail! I have flown planes before, and they do NOT fight you the way this game/stick combo does. Turn the force off, because it spends all its time trying to force itself back to center, using the FS2000 settings.

On the positive side, the flight models seem very accurate (if you don't use the force feedback stick!). This simulator would be somewhat valuable for pilots practicing IFR, navigation, and approaches to specific airports. The sound is very good, but gets crackly when the visuals drain your system resources.

When somebody builds a sim that I can look down and RECOGNIZE houses, streets, etc., I'll try this again. Otherwise, I'd stick to games/sims that rely on action and strategy, rather than realism, for their fun factor.

"Flight Simulator 2000", Well if you are a commercial pilot then you and only could really enjoy this. I could not endure the slow going of this software. Sorry but unless you enjoyed being bored to death hunt for something else!!

"DIM SIM", Two years ago I tried Flight Unlimited on an old power mac. It was soooo much better than MS Flight Simulator 2000. I now have a P3 866 with 128DRAM, so this machine should work well with MS FLT SIM 2000, but no such luck. The graphics are slow and choppy and generally pathetic. Even when I fooled around with the settings I couldn't make the sim work as well as Flight Unlimited did on an old mac two years ago! This is a prime example of bigger not being better. Bill Gates should try fast foot or dry cleaning and stop producing ugly software. Buy Flight Unlimited and wait for MS to learn how to fly. I've been a licensed pilot for 18 years, and MS FS 2K is a real lead balloon.