Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2

Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero versus B-24 Mitchell at Wewak

FlyingSinger reported in 2000 :
Something about the lighting and rendering in this sim just blows my mind -- although European Air War is very painterly" (as you said in the museum, like flying in a Robert Taylor painting), Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 is approaching photo-realism.
So much so that in some screen shots, you have the effect of a hyper-realistic-style oil painting (you somehow know it's not a photo, but so close... perhaps with anti-aliasing... )
One oddity you can see in the last shot -- the B-24D cockpit structure is wrong, too much glass on top. The B-24 had very claustrophobic cockpit windows -- this version looks more like a B-26 cockpit (I'm sure there will be a user-built replacement soon enough). But otherwise the B-24 is superbly rendered, and the Zero, even more so ! "

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