Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 review: Magic, with turbulent clouds [Video]

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First things first: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is real magic in game form.

Hovering over Paris in our Airbus H125 helicopter, with the ray-traced sun in the cockpit reflected on the curved windows to the right and left, the Eiffel Tower in front of us and all the iconic streets of arguably Europe’s most beautiful city below us, is a dream come true.

We’re talking about a flight simulator in which we can fly for two kilometers from the Place de la Concorde over the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe and see tourist buses and taxis below us. We can even activate the live traffic of all the world’s metropolises in the menu.

However, Microsoft still has launch problems. They are now relying much more on cloud architecture, meaning that we only load 50 gigabytes onto the hard drive and the entire 4K world is buffered, just like Netflix buffers a 4K film.

This caused a number of errors on launch …