War Thunder, my latest distraction
I haven't always played many simulation games in any sensible way. Sims like IL-2 or FS9 , after a few sorties, or a couple circuits and ramming into buildings, I readily bounced off of. The exception to all of this, and the origin of my increasing interest in sims was when two years ago I bought Take On Helicopters and enjoyed flying the campaign. Take On Helicopters did a great job recreating Seattle in the most convincing way I've ever seen a city rendered in a videogame . Though it might seem superficial to say that it took a detailed environment for me to become interested, I think it's difficult if you aren't a pilot to be motivated to play a simulator given the reputation newer flight sims have. In any case, environments have always been a defining feature of flight sims so I really shouldn't feel too bad! Free-to-play has been a fantastic way to keep me flying lately. I found a friend in Microsoft's free-to-play game Flight . Flight does a decent...
