Initially, Microsoft did not announce any virtual reality support with the game. If you want to see how awesome Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is, check out some of the graphics and gameplay videos at the bottom of the guide. A recent update adds realistic winter weather patterns, which adds snow and ice into the game. The game contains over 2 million cities and towns, 1.5 billion buildings, 2 trillion trees, and 37,000 real-worl d airports.

All of this makes the game the largest open-world concept ever created. The game provides this from its 2 petabyte (PB) database in real-time as you are playing inside of the map. Live representations of terrain, trees, grass, buildings, and water are generated real-time in the cloud by Microsoft Azure technology.Īzure is able to render clouds, weather, and other real-world effects in real time as you are playing. The game has received a ton of critical acclaim because it simulates the entire earth using data and textures from Microsoft’s Bing maps. It is the first flight sim game since Flight Simulator X back in 2006. Flight Simulator 2020 is a brand new flight simulator game published by Xbox game Studios.

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