| I’ll
bet some corporate genius is sitting at home right now
giggling with a giddy feeling because of this game. He shouldn’t
be. Fly!2K is nearly everything a bad sequel is - exactly the
same. Fly!2K is 1999’s Fly! with a fancy new "2K"
bumper sticker. Other than some minor changes (e.g. bug
fixes), this game is simply a clone of Fly!. Even the loading
screens read Fly! instead of Fly!2K. I had to check the box
twice.
The graphics in this game are
barely bearable. The mountains were well done. , but the urban
terrain was quite the opposite. The planes were also nicely
done. My only real problems I had with graphics are that a)
flying through clouds was like flying through a piece of paper
and b) I could not blow up the plane! This did allow for some
slick crash-landing cartwheels, though.
The gameplay was average in my
mind. There was no tutorial, which I thought was necessary for
this game. Fortunately, you can create your own missions. Also
available is a "Fly Now" option with several
missions which allow you to bypass the hassles of starting the
engine, or even taking off. A "Flight Planner"
allows you to plan your own flight (duh). In my opinion, Fly!-
I mean Fly!2K is a game for those who were too drunk to get a
pilot’s license.
Literally, what person would
want to fly from Alaska to South Africa in their free time? A
multi-player option is also available, but I found that the
feature which added the most replayability to the game is the
InfoMETER option, which allowed you to download current
weather options into the game. Feel stupid? Well there’s a
storm brewin’ on the shore of Cuba, let’s giddy up! A
multi-player option is also available. It allows you to fly in
a sky cluttered with other pilots, which is pretty cool.
However, in finality, I wouldn’t
recommend buying this game. If you want a crappy simulator,
buy the original Fly! Now maybe I’m a bit ruined on combat
sims, so if you want to pretend you’re a pilot with not as
many bugs, fly with Fly!2K. Then again, hallucinations are
just as good, probably better, just too many bugs. It’s your
choice.
-Salil Tamhane |
Learning Curve: 1-3 hours
All scores are
out of ten possible points.
Gameplay: 7
Graphics: 5
Replayability: 7
Multi-player: 6
Player Compatibility: 6
-Highs-
Realistic, Intricate
Gameplay [Uninstaller functions properly-Ed.]
-Lows-
User Interface,
Graphics, Manual, Being Similar to Fly!
-Bottom Line-
The suit who thought this
one up should be fired for sheer incompetence. This is a
horrible excuse for a sequel. The only reason it scored higher
than the original is because of the bug fixes.
62%
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