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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I originally gave this game a four star review--it deserves FIVE! Since purchasing this, I've tried many other games and NONE compare. For it's market, this game is number one! I've owned it now for over a year and still I enjoy it. Only in books have I experienced the ability that this game has in pulling you into the subject. If you purchase this, then you'll see the mastery that the designers injected it with. Happy flights!

A great facelift for one of the greatest PC games ever...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: May 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The first time I saw this game, way back in the early 90's, it looked interesting. What became of that was many years, even including last year, of playing it non-stop until I bought the 3D version.

The realism is powerful, and the improved 3D graphics make this one game that will no doubt live forever in the PC gaming hall of fame. What makes this game different from all other flight sims is the campaign mode. In the last decade and even now, nothing has even come close to the feeling of building your pilot up in rank, status, and medals. When your pilot dies, you feel awful, especially after days and even weeks, of intense combat and intrigue, (Sometimes other famous pilots, like the Red Baron, will write you a letter and challenge you to a duel!). The campaign doesn't drag on either, because the war ends as it did in real life in 1918, so you can retire your score to the hall of fame board and start over trying to beat your last pilot.

Who needs multiplayer? This game rocks, and I have never met a person who hasn't thought thought this game to soar beyond other flight sims. The only others to come close are the good old Lucas games, Battle of Britan and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.

Buy this now, before it fades away and is pushed aside by evil marketing people who care more about graphics and sound than FUN! Fun is what games are about, and Red Baron 3D is one of the last great games of the early days that will always be there to go back to when flying games become ridiculous and boring, much they have already become.

Huge five stars for this awsome game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A huge five stars: Still my favorite game after five years and three upgrades, Red Baron 3D continues to be addictive in 2004. Unfortunately, the company that made the game is defunct, but there is a huge online community keeping the game alive with lots of awesome upgrades and options. I hope some rich guy, or perhaps a savvy game company resurrects this awesome game someday. I'm a huge fan of combat flight simulators, so I routinely buy all the new games. Nothing comes close to Red Baron for the sheer joy of dog fighting, the thrill of the hunt, and the fear of flaming death. The campaigns are virtually unlimited in their variety. The missions vary from routine to absolutely terrifying, requiring you to `bug out' or die plummeting in a flaming wreck. Even at the height of your skill, the lifespan of your pilots can be very short, or perhaps you will survive the war captured in a POW camp, maimed in a hospital, or victorious with a chest full of medals. A player has to be cunning and skilled to play this game and survive, but with some training, a bit of practice and some luck, you can become a canvas falcon and rule the skies as the Ace of Aces!

Red Baron 3D and patches done by fans, make this game, rock!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Now after 2 year since RB 3D been released, there are still a many hundreds that play the game. Lots of online squadrons are still active and involving themselves in planning and creating online wars with allied squads Vs German and their allied squads. Many users have created new add-ons without the help from Sierra, all season terrain that look realistic, buildings, objects, new aircraft and much more. There are many web sites to what the users done for this great game! I've played Red Baron 2 when it came up for sale. Then when Sierra/Dynamix upgraded to RB 2 to Red Baron 3D, I've keep on playing it, joined a squad and kept on playing online war with 32-64 other pilots. When you get into a dogfight with other real persons, it's an adrenaline rush and that by its self. You have to play it to find out...

Red Baron 3D, More Than Just a Flight Simulator

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Red Baron 3D is not your ordinary flight simulator program. Red Baron 3D is a highly interactive WWI flight simulation where you can immerse yourself in honorable combat in the skies above France. Red Baron 3D can be played in a wide variety of ways. You can choose your aircraft and fly against any one of many enemy aircraft flown by an AI pilot in whats called the "Fly Now" mode. You can create a pilot and fly from the beginning of WWI, flying realistic computer generated missions in the "Campain Mode". As your pilot gains experience and as the War progresses, your pilot will advance in rank and responsibility. In "Single Mission" mode, you can fly your choice of a number of missions that will test your skills as a WWI fighter ace. You can even generate your own missions to fly, such as bomber escort or intercept, offensive patrols, even balloon busting. You can also play via the internet and pit your skills against other players in real time from all over the world. To play via the internet, you will need to download and install an official Sierra patch called RB3D1078.EXE. This patch will allow you to see and play in the many game servers devoted to Red Baron 3D since WON.NET no longer supports internet play. There are numerous Web Sites devoted to Red Baron 3D where you can get information on how to play the game.

Regards;
JGS4SparksJ79bCO
Commanding Officer JGS4 Jasta79b, Red Baron 3D On-line squadron

Best All Around WW1 Combat Flight Sim

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes it is true! despite being released way back in, what was it, 1998? Red Baron 3D remains among the top of tier of combat flight sims.

If you are looking for this classic sim the bad news is that all original published copies are sold out. The good news is that used copies are not hard to find. Shop around and try to get the actual Red Baron 3D game and not the upgradeable Red Baron 2. Also, try and find a copy that includes the Red Baron 3D manual. This manual is chock full of everything you need to know about every aspect of the sim. There is also a large historical section devoted to the pilots and aircraft of the period covered in the sim and lots of period photos. It resembles a paperback novel more than manuals found with PC games these days.

Other good news is that although the game/sim is old it has been lovingly modded and kept up to date by a large community of artists and programmers. The game in its current state of modification hardly resembles the game as it was originally shipped.

The Campaign in RB3D remains to this day the standard to which all others are held. Really, there is nothing else in the world of 3D flight sims that can compare to it. It is the key reason why so many have been flying and modding this sim over the years. Very little about the campaign is scripted. Once you take off from your aerodrome how events unfold from then on depends largely on the decisions you make while in the air. While flying a mission there is a real sense of a war going on all around you. Looking off into the distance dogfights and ground fire that have nothing to do with your mission can be seen unfolding. I have seen planes little more than specks in the distance spinning out of control towards the earth, shot down out of the sky trailing smoke.

The game was programed to run with the now extinct Voodoo video cards and Glide API. There is a program called dgvoodoo that can be downloaded and installed that allows modern ATI and Nvidia cards to run the game in Glide, otherwise the game runs in Direct Draw and doesn't look nearly as sweet.

Anyway, I wanted to write up this review because the sim is still in use and message boards with enthusiastic modders and simmers from all over the world are currently active and they are a great place to get started and ask Qs about anything having to do with Red Baron 3D or any of its many mods and patches.

Here is a good place to start if you are ready to take the plunge! [...]

My Lord is this fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I hate computers, computer geeks and computer games. I bought a computer only because I needed it for work. I was given RB3D as a gift and didn't even open it for five months.

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. That's really all I have to say. The online setup where you play people around the world in giant air battles is the most fun I've ever had with my clothes on. You have to download free patches from the websites to get this to work, but it's ADDICTIVE!

BUY THIS!

WWI in a 3-d world

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Red baron 3-d is one of the best WWI flight simulator. Its beath taking graphics and great gameplay, mix into one. Good luck on your travels.

Highly addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I usually don't like this kind of computer game, but was intriged by the historical context enough to try the demo. I wasn't thrilled by the demo, but liked it enough to buy the full version. I'm hooked. I can't stop playing this ...thing, and can't believe the game isn't more popular. It is well researched, realistic and downright fun. The landscape graphics could be better, but they are good enough, since the main focus is on the aerial combat. It is so good my wife calls it "that ...game." If you like either WWI history or flight simulation or both, buy this game while its still available. ....

Greatest Flight Sim ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

One of the best games I've ever played! If you like on-line gaming and flight sims, this is one you have to get!

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