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My Humble Opinion

I bought CFS3 the day it hit the shelves but I wasn´t really able to play it because
of  all the stutters anb bad framerates although my system tripled the minimun specs..
until I upgradet to a radeon 9700 and BINGO! It was running fine with most of the sliders
maxed (some minor stutters though).
I was wondering why people either seem love or hate it , since I think it is not that bad...
& not that good !!
So  I think it´s time to summarize my personal PRO`s & CON´s...
First the looks :
The clouds are pretty good ( not as nice as FS9 or IL-2 , but nice) ,
AND as far as I know and experienced you can hide in them   BIG PLUS!!!
The ground scenery is in my opinion so so , the facilities are OK to me ,
the autogen elements are ridiculously STUPID!
Europe is no covert by conifers that are twice as tall as the buildings,
and I don´t think anyone has ever seen towns and cities  that resemble the ones
in this game . The houses should be two or three times as big (they are usually
too small in flightsims..) and as far as I can recall most of the european cities
have large building blocks with yards in the middle ( hell! Even European Air War
got it right! It is still one of the great flight sims in my opinion!)
anyway , the ground textures are to fuzzy the water is a wee bit strange and I miss
flack searchlights...
For those who own Il-2FB it is kinda disappointing.And it is a disgrace for a flightsim
that is focused on ground attack!!!! BY the way in 1943 most of the cities have already
been struck by bombs and should have a number of damaded and destroyed city parts
in it.The damage model of the facilities is kinda weird , I was flying in quick combat
over London in a 109 and the britsh flak took down the Tower Bridge , The Tower and
The Houses of Parliament simply by shooting at me.
I can´t say much about the flight models since I am not a pilot and neither are most of
us . It seems good to me as well as the damage model of the planes (1% planes seem
to be better but the stock models are fine for me).
I would like to see some effect of the gun recoil on the flight model and a shaking
cockpit.
The dynamic campain and the role playing elements are a great idea and a big
improvement to the genre (maybe future sims have some kind of storyline included)
Thats all for now since I haven´t finished any of the campains I can´t say anything more.
All in all its OK the way it comes out of the box(for those with a matching computer) , it is
a lot of fun with all the addons of the numerous contructors (Thank You All!!!!!!!!)
and it could have been great...
but it isn´t! 

P.S. For those who disagree I know this is highly subjective and yes I actually
favor Il-2 Forgotten Battles but I wouldn´t want to miss either one of the sims
and sorry for any mistakes but english is not my first language,
And a happy new year to all of you! 

I have tried CFS3 many times. I HATED IT.

Whenever I play online in CFS3, the aircraft seem to warp and fly sideways with a TON of stutters and lag.

IL-2: FB in my honest opinion IS the best. Those Europeans know how to make a good game. To me, it's no disappointment at all.

I never owned CFS2. Therefore, I cannot comment on it. However, after seeing numerous screenshots of it, I easily began to hate it because the visual models and the damage effects seem primitive and the scenery seems a bit odd. Because of that, I don't trust CFS2.

"Shafted" , Just about sums CFS3 & its system requirements to me!