Reviews (by Oliver)

I have just updated this scenery from the former plain photoscenery version to this "3D" version with autogen and night lighting. IMO the new buildings and vegetation add a lot to the immersion and the three-dimensional feel when flying low over this scenery. To me these features alone warrant the asked upgrade price and set this concept apart from the majority of "photo only" sceneries. That's why my new rating is 4 stars, which raises the category from "solid" to "better than most of the other photosceneries". I am a bit unsure, though, about the new 3D night lighting: The provided screenshots are very honest; they show 3D lights (light "points") without any ground splashes or the like, but in varying colours and density, sometimes also double rows of them for primary roads like freeways/motorways. Compared to Chris Bell's Night Environment Editions, Taburet's 3D night lights and the night lighting developed by Orbx, the RWS night lights fall quite behind, but it should be mentioned that the RWS lights, just like their autogen, come optimized for performance right from the start: I haven't experienced any signifikant frame rate drops or VAS increases since the update. My bottom line is, that the buildings and vegetation IMO already fully warrant the upgrade price. While the night lights leave something to be desired IMO, I regard them as a free bonus, but not as the main reason to purchase the upgrade.

This is not a city scenery that comes with a "cityscape", parks, trees, houses and stuff. Instead it is a plain photoscenery without autogen, but of good quality. RWS did pretty good with coastlines and watermasking in their former releases; obviously these strenghts cannot be applied to an area that has no coastline and hardly any water at all. So what you get is what you see in the screenshot and I like the fact that this title again is good quality and covers quite some area. I picked it up during the current sale and use it as an extension and improvement of the surroundings for my OERK addon airport. So, as long as you don't expect a cityscape you should be OK with this product ... ;-)

It's from Justsim, so I had to get it on day one ... ;-) Took a helicopter flight with very high graphics settings and was impressed with the details, the many points of interest and the covered area. Then forgot about my graphics settings and loaded the PMDG NGX ... VAS usage was still o.k., frame rates were very good, and now I am on my way into Pristina. It looks like the VAS footprint of Varna has been completely unloaded, so well done again again, Justsim. I also like the colouring and the harmony between this scenery and ORBX Global Base. LBWN may not be a "Mega Airport", but considering its quality and the surrounding scenery supplied it's well worth the price asked (even incl. 19% German VAT in my case).

Probably the best US City by LimeSim so far. I placed it on top of the Ultra-Res city Boston from MegaSceneryEarth which already provides a 50 cm resolution for its photoscenery. Still the LimeSim product not only adds the custom city buildings and the autogen houses and trees, but also increases the resolution for airport areas noticeably. Aerial images for the airports were expected but LimeSim also added depictions for some coastal stretches. In short, a lot of eye-candy, no matter which approach into KBOS you are flying. Unfortunately the ground colours of the US City differ from those of the Ultra-Res MSE City (no seasonal variations for either title), but the gain in immersion outweighs this issue by far, IMO.