Truth to be told Niagara Falls/Buffalo is not a US City only as it also covers quite a bit of Canada, but anyway: Being one of the world`s greatest tourist attractions on the borderline between Canada and the United States, Niagara Falls will amaze you! The scenery comes with unprecedented detail in effects , animations and awe inspiring views.
There are three main helipads in the scenery, the major one for sightseeing flights on the Canadian side, a smaller one very close to the Falls on the US side of the river and a medical rooftop pad on the Women and Children’s Hospital in Buffalo. Furthermore the package includes a bunch of International Airports and small airfields in the area in nice detail.
US Cities X is a series of city scenery for FSX that covers US cities created by LimeSim. Based on an extensive aerial image it will have all the major buildings and landmarks plus all the airports and heliports that are inside the covered areas.
It is clearly intended to fill the gap between the default scenery and very high dense city scenery such as Manhattan X, London VFR or Venice X. Because the file size is rather large due to the ground image it only includes one season (in most cases this is not a real issue) and no night textures. The VFR flights over these cities are mostly a day time affair anyway.
Features:
Aerial image coverage with up to 15cm/pix resolution (see attached Google Earth file)
More than 850 major buildings included
About 70,000 autogen buildings placed realistically
Extremely realistic animations of the Falls
Scheduled sightseeing boats going to the falls
Many sightseeing around the Falls like:
Skylon Tower with animated outside elevators
Marineland with animated -2G tower (check out the Orcas!)
Rainbow and other bridges crossing Niagara River
Spanish Cable Car crossing “the Whirlpool”
SkyWheel
Captive Balloon (animated)
Prospect viewing platform
Hydro plants
Major airports in and around the city are covered with new ground images (no new building structures added):
KBUF – Buffalo Niagara International Airport
KIAG – Niagara Falls International Airport
D77 – Buffalo-Lancaster
0G0 – North Buffalo Suburban Airport
9G0 – Buffalo Airfield
CNJ3 – Ft Erie
NY49 – Mesmer
77NY – Pendleton Airpark
79NY – Smith
62NZ – Lockport Cambria
85N – Hollands Intl Field
D80 – Olcott-Newfane
63NY – Shear
NY24 – Taylor
5 heliports:
CNF9 – Niagara Helicopters (high detail)
INK80 – Rainbow Helicopters Niagara (high detail)
7NK2 – Buffalo Women and Children’s Hospital Helipad
CNF7 – Niagara Falls Fire Station No.1
CNJ3 – Ft Erie Helipad (part of the airport)
Sound effects like downtown- and highway traffic, the waterfalls...
Not the best US Cities X I’ve bought. Yes the area around the falls is a lot better but even with max settings a lot is missing.
The entire downtown high rise area is gone, not a single auto or custom gen building throughout the whole scenery area is over 300 feet. I can forgive it’s dated looks were it not for leaving out every single high rise. There is nothing I can turn up any higher.
Watching the orcas is pretty neat though. It’s far better than the stock scenery at least. Just not great.
Viel Fototapete und trotz höchster Einstellungen und Option beim installieren, fehlen einige Gebäude (blauer Aussichtsturm, weiße Pyramide, sämtliche Hochhäuser...)
Diese Szenerie sieht bei Rundflügen am Tage tatsächlich so klasse aus wie auf den Produktbildern zu sehen ist und sofern man einen flotten Rechner hat läuft der FSX auch bei höchsten Einstellungen flüssig weiter, allerdings ist sie wohl nicht für Tiefflüge gedacht, da die Texturen der Gebäude immer verschwommener werden je näher man ihnen kommt.
Macht aber ja nichts, weil man bei einem Rundflug ja eh nicht mit einer F-16 knapp über die Gebäude donnert, naja, jedenfalls normalerweise nicht:)