Articles tagged flight

For years now I have felt relegated to high action, low realism console games when instead I fancied a burn on a flight simulator. I started to play these games in the early 80’s on my beloved BBC micro, but with each new flight sim on the PC it seemed you needed an ever more powerful computer. Flight Simulator X is no exception, looking bigger and better than ever before, but with the price of a high spec PC or laptop falling I find myself for the first time in some while with enough computer juice to run a flight sim.

Cubefield follows a pretty straight foward formula. You avoid cubes as your prism flies forward, earning more points as you progress. How can this be fun? Won't it look pretty plain? Is this a good remedy for boredom? Well, you'll be surprised what Flash can actually do in the hands of someone talented.