As a designer of F-117, Michael adds Stealth Pilot to his long list of favorite roles. In his seven years here at Electronic Arts (EA), he has graced us with his abilities as Skateboard Maintenance Officer (Skate or Die), Football Coach (John Madden Football), Sensei of the EA martial arts dojo (Budokan) and Senior Lawnboy (PGA TOUR Golf). In his spare time, Michael likes to eat chili verde burritos at 2 a.m., and skateboard down the shag halls here at EA. There he goes now!
Previously to get anywhere near this level of detail for a particular locale you would have to purchase a 3rd party scenery pack and then suffer abominable frame rates.With the ability to automatically generate buildings, trees, static and flying aircraft and the associated radio traffic this package must have sent shock waves through companies whose business was based on enhancing the Microsoft sims. Still, the open architecture is there and the Pro version even includes an object / aircraft construction kit.
I'd imagine some business plans are hastily being rewritten and in the end we are all better off.
The sim has the ability to support computers and graphic cards that aren't even built yet - but they will be!
Yet it still runs on an average PC and looks good. Who could have imagined 10 years ago that this level of detail and complexity could be modelled on a PC? Only in my dreams!
MiGMan, 2002