Red Baron 3D
MiGMan’s Combat Diary | 1998
Test system:
CPU: Pentium 233 MMX
RAM: 64 meg
3D graphics: Creative 3D Blaster Banshee
Diary
Red Baron 3D puts you in the hot seat on the Western Front.
You'll need help to survive... meet Oswald Boelke, ace pilot and author of Boelkes' dicta .... a kind of ten commandments of dogfighting whic is still studied today by professional fighter pilots.
Oswald Boelke. Pray you see him before he sees you.
It always shocks me to realise just how young these historical figures were.
You can create single missions or fly campaigns. The manual is a good read in its' own right, which can't be said about most game manuals. It narrates the events and outlines the tactics you will have to use to survive.
Aces of World War I
Intel briefings include video (film) footage. Here you see early AAA in action.
An early AAA in action.
The pilot dossiers are quite thorough.
Mick Mannock, World War I Ace
Eddie Rickenbacker was one of the survivors.
Verdun, just part of the landscape modelled in Red Baron 3D.
The sim gives you the illusion of flying over a living landscape... church bells toll, tracers fly, bridges tumble.
The mission debrief in Red Baron 3D replays your adventures blow by embarrasing blow.
In conclusion
Red Baron 3-D is an engrossing recreation of the air wars over France in WW1. The style of presentation can't fail to educate as it entertains. With British, American, French and German services to fly in and a full complement of planes it represents hours of flying fun.
