It won’t cost you a penny to get a taste of Microsoft Flight once it’s released on PC this year. Microsoft today announced plans to distribute its Flight Simulator successor in free-to-play fashion, allowing gamers to play a portion of the game for free before paying to unlock new content, if they so desire.
Releasing on PC sometime this spring as a downloadable game, the free version of Flight allows players to fly around Hawaii, completing missions, challenges, and finding secret aerocaches hidden around the island. From there you’ll be able to receive an additional batch of content simply by signing into Games for Windows Live; anyone with an Xbox Live account will already have one, and those who do not can make an account for free. Doing so will unlock the Boeing Stearman plane, extra missions, and access to both Achievements and an Online Pilot Profile.
