Microprose Combat Air Patrol 2 Review First Look 

I really wanted to buy this game despite the fact I knew it has some issues. You saved me, thank you. You actually saved me not from wasting my money, which I do in mass on other occasions in my life. You prevented huge disappointment from happening in my life. I've gone through a few of those and every time it was really bad experience. I really wanted CAP2 to become my favorite sim title, too much to see what's actually been delivered.

I'm really glad that the return of casual combat flying sims is happening right now. Oldschool games like Fighter Bomber, Tomahawk, F19 - way back on ZX Spectrum, then a year later LHX, F29 Retaliator, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, F117 Nighthawk or Dogfight on my first PCs, all these titles kickstarted my love for sim flying and kept me interested in flight simming and aviation in general. This interest later led me to more serious simulators, more "serious" interest. And although i do like reading theory explanation pdfs and diving into manuals and creating Excel cheatsheets with simplified checklists for those payware planes that simulate every single cockpit button and knob, including heaters and cargo compartment pressure, but sometimes it's really nice to just start a game, hop in a plane and go blasting. And for that, i got a PERFECT title. It's also EA, in active development, but in this case, the development is going very fast. Every new update brings major new features, and so far the bugs i ran into were relatively minor. Nothing gamebreaking. That game is called NUCLEAR OPTION, it's on Steam, it has GREAT reviews and it's actually TONS of fun, even this early in development. I really hope that CAP2 developer gets his sh1t together and fixes what needs to be fixed, or at least hires someone to do it for him. Because the more the merrier, i wish to see CAP2 succeed, and the game has REALLY beautiful graphics. But as it is right now, it's borderline unplayable. Basic functionality is broken, the gui is hell, sadly, there's a lot more baaad than there's good. And i truly regret it, because we don't yet have a casual combat flight sim with this kind of graphics. But graphics is irrelevant when basic stuff doesn't work.

First game I ever played was MicroProse Soccer

Thanks. You sure confirmed my suspisions, sadly. Deffently a no bey for me untill the opesit is shown :) Have a good day...

The only thing that the new Microprose and the old Microprose share so far is the name! This is the game in it's previous state as it was sold on Steam when the developer abandoned it! Microprose has not done anything to it yet!

Can’t help but think VTOLVR has the hands and arms thing sorted. Do that microprose, that works.

bought it, refunded it, unplayable in VR and it needs a LOT of work. even the basic stuff was broken, want to fly straight with vr hands, good luck LOL Great honest review without just dumping on the game.

FMOD is only for sound, you can't compare it to Unreal or Unity. I'm not sure but this is most likely build on some in-house game engine. But yeah the game is in really rough shape. I already stated that it would be better if Ed focused on basic features first and made them actualy work, because some earlier builds despite having less features were more playable than this mess. Adding more features by a single man team is nonsensical to me at this point. Do we really need more aircraft if the base one doesn't work?

All Hail EAW.

Micropose... We went from The Mighty 8th to this... As a DCS Player, i dont think ill be busting my wallet out for this. If i need a MicroPose Fix, ill stick with Carrier Command 2.

Microprose is releasing real crap. I had hopes that the new company would surprise everyone with a great comeback. According to reviews of Silent Depth 2 and Mighty 8th Redeux alone, it’s not looking too good. CAP2 is just as bad. But it’s been bad since the developers released it solo before Microprose picked it up.

It's actually sad. The flight sims niche is quite empty.

15:18 bit much, you can refund within 2hrs.

2014 called, They wants their graphics back.