Airlines 2

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Product Details

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• ASIN: B00006HCH4
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 1, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,908 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A good start..., December 26, 2002

By	Scott Taylor (Kent, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really wanted to like Airlines 2. It is basically an updated and improved Air Bucks (if you remember that one). I really like Air Bucks, but since it was a DOS game... I hadn't played it for years.

I had to try five different computers before I found one that would run Airlines 2. Luckily I have the variety of choices to try. You must have Windows Me, a 3D graphics card and at least 128MB of RAM. Your display driver has to be up to date, and a newer CD-ROM drive. It was rediculously hard to get it working.

Now for the bad news <g>. Things work fine for a couple of years and then planes start crashing left and right. After about 10 years, even if you replace your airplanes with newer ones, you will have multiple airplane crashes EACH MONTH. If there were this many crashes in real life no one would ever fly.

The most important plane is the Boeing (called Boodwing) 707. Stock up on these because they get discontinued about a year before the 747 shows up (at a far higher cost) and many routes only are economical to fly with 707s. Huge cities must have large planes flying to them, so when you lose a 707 most times you have to shut down the route. DC-10's can take some routes, but not most.

The rule "book" is a joke. There are many important rules that you have to figure out by trial and error. For instace, the rule book says that planes "must be the right size" for a route. What does that mean? Huge cities must be served by large planes. Tiny cities by small planes. So, if you Large city being served by 737s (for instance) grows to a Huge city, all of those routes suddenly stop working until the planes are replaced by 707s, DC-10s or the like. In many cases the routes have to be abondoned.

Want to fly a hub and spoke network? Forget it. A city can have, at most five routes in and out of it (depending on the size).

Don't even get me started on the total lack of responce from their technical support people.

This game could have been very good, but it fails miserably.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hard to navigate, December 6, 2002

By	kosta trimovski (hoffman estates, il United States) - See all my reviews

Pc requirements are false, game will not work with pentium 3 procesor even if you have 64 MB video card and 256 ram.
Game starts at year 1960 and you can't change that.
Authors of the game should look at Nintendo AIRBIZ Supersonic game and take some notes.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars AIRLINE by Efzed, March 27, 2003

By A Customer

Hi everyone. I have a copy of AIRLINE Simulation which is avaialble at www.airlinesimulation.com I think this simulation is far better than Airlines 2 (which I also have) The gameplay is much more realistic, there are over 5000 airports and there are around 250 aircraft types. It is much more flexible than Airlines 2 and whenever I have contacted their customer support I usually get a fast reply - within 48 hours at least. I can ddefinatly recommend this game.