If a game can turn my desk into an 11-ton jet fighter, then that's good enough for me. I just wish I could've traded some of the realism for a little more entertainment. Thorough manual, but it could've been laid out better. And it's well under the 200 page industry standard for flight sim manuals. 6.0 Graphics Even with all the options turned off, this one still looks great.
Explosions are very realistic as are most of the texture maps.
Too bad you'll rarely get close enough to see them. 8.0 Sound Great effects. The best is when your plane loses all its systems. All you hear is your own breathing as the plane slowly falls out of the sky. Scared the hell out of me.