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Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, Xbox, £59.99)
Verdict: Come fly with me
Thousands of planes flew last year, carrying millions of passengers to hundreds of airports.
You may not have noticed them because, thanks to Covid, they weren’t in the air. They were on computer screens.
Last August, the 2020 edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator — the first new title in that venerable series for almost 15 years — was released on PC.
It was less a game, more a miracle: a means of flying detailed recreations of actual planes across a detailed recreation of the actual world.
Last August, the 2020 edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator — the first new title in that venerable series for almost 15 years — was released on PC
This week it has landed on Xbox — and it’s still rather miraculous. Although the console (in its various forms) is not as powerful as