Flight Sims are boring right? No, we just don't know what to do with them!
With the right hardware and after a patch update, you have a sophisticated, highly realistic combat flight simulator. Ten years ago an experience like this would have been impossible without access to a commercial flight simulator. Now it's available on your home PC.
For goodness sake, you have the chance to be a fighter pilot! This is
awe inspiring stuff and this game has the potential to thrill you like no other computer game. Hang on a moment though, flight sims are considered boring right? Actually no, the problem is nobody knows how to bloody play them!
First off, NO ONE READ MANUALS ANYMORE. Secondly, whether it's Microsoft Flight Simulator, Falcon 4.0 or LOCK ON the 'in game' training is a joke. I am desperate to know how fly these sims, but I am not going to read a manual 200 pages long. I want my training 'in game'. I want it to be snappy, clear and of a high quality. Can you actually think of a flight sim that has been able to do this?
There are some really good flight sims around. LOCK ON is definitely one of them. The 'in game' training is inadequate and it makes me really angry and frustrated. I want to be a 'top gun', I want to splash a mig. In the end, I end up fiddling with a few buttons, can just about master take off and landing. I look at some outside views and say 'wow' that looks neat. I guess I might knuckle down and work how to play this sim properly. But that's not fun, and I firmly believe with the right guidance, an above average gamer can have the an awesome gaming experience with most sophisticated of flight sims.