Ok, I downloaded the demo and installed it.
Brought it up, turned on all the realism features.
It loads the mission (2 minutes).
Suddenly, I'm in a dirty spit cockpit, and there's this awful beeping noise that goes on for about 1.5 sec. It stops when my plane explodes.
Another trip out there -- I last slightly longer, and I learn my lesson to turn off collisions. The panning view system sucks, so I have to kill that. Only problem is the fixed view system really doesn't give you anything to see -- I found forward, left, right and that's it. Now how am I supposed to keep my lift vector pointed at an enemy if I can't look up?
Sounds are cool, but the external noise of planes passing by is overdone. I can see hearing the rumble of a bomber over your own engine's noise when that bombers is 20 feet out your window, but 500 yards away?
The terrain textures are corrupt on my version.
All those planes in the air makes for an impressive sight, but that's about it. The hit sprites look as bad as the ones in AH, if not worse.
After three or four attempts at sorties, I had a hard crash. I don't know if I'll be heading back.
