3.8 wow, that has to hurt. But I completely disagree. No where in his review did he mention the characters or the story(something PC flight sims lack to this day).That to me is the biggest selling point of this game, you know and actually care about(or are annoyed by) your fellow pilots and enemies. Every flight sim I've played has had the boring out in the middle of nowhere, dead calm action and complete lack of audio traffic. In this game you have not only the most detailed com traffic ever(where else do you get a rio who talks about life is probably a game and I'm being controlled but some fat guy with a joystick) but a good amount of action(though it often feels more like a battleship game of launching your missiles miles away and hoping they hit their target. Also it uses FMV that was a trademark of the mid 1990's. but its actually done well here(something only the Wing Commander series can claim).James Tolkan reprises his role as Hondo. the rest of the cast is unknown but do their job quite well, especially your RIO who basically speaks for you(think half life you never say anything and are never seen). Graphically he's wrong again(not about the terrain), the jets in TG are photoreal(though lacking in polys) where as USNF was pathetically cartoony.The terrain indeed is choppy(some kind of mode 2 or 7 or other) but can do some interesting effect(grand canyon is amazing).Also above the clouds at sunset it looks like actual video footage. The not quite arcade and not quite hardcore sim doesn't hurt it in my opinion but sets it apart from the other dime a dozen games out there. Granted the sim isn't complex or easy and the combat is a bit...lacking. but the atmosphere, story,characters make it a amazing experience, its also the first sim game I actually cared enough to play all the way through.
