Red Baron

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Description

Red Baron puts you in the pilot's seat of actual World War I fighter aircraft. This game features 28 different aircraft from both the Allied and the German sides presented in actual 3D graphics. Start a career as a pilot and rise through the ranks to become the most feared ace in the skies, or participate in a variety of single missions including simple fighter sweeps, balloon-busting, zeppelin hunting, or take on an actual WWI ace in one-on-one combat. If you're good enough, you may even be able to take on the infamous Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron himself.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Aircraft: Airco DH.2
• Aircraft: Albatros D.II
• Aircraft: Albatros D.III
• Aircraft: Albatros D.V
• Aircraft: Fokker Dr.I
• Aircraft: Fokker D.VII
• Aircraft: Fokker E.III
• Aircraft: Nieuport 17
• Aircraft: Pfalz D.III
• Aircraft: RAF S.E.5
• Aircraft: Sopwith Camel
• Aircraft: Sopwith Pup
• Aircraft: Sopwith Snipe
• Aircraft: Sopwith Triplane
• Aircraft: SPAD S.VII
• Aircraft: SPAD S.XIII
• Gameplay feature: Recordable replays
• Great War Planes series
• Historical conflict: World War I
• Red Baron games
• Sierra/Dynamix Red Baron series

User Reviews

Wonderful, colorful air combat!	DOS	Professor (107)
Probably the most fun flight sim ever	DOS	Maury Markowitz (251)
THE pure dogfighting simulation	DOS	Rick Jones (111)
Legendary Air Combat	DOS	Ghost (130)
AN UNDERRATED GEM!!!	DOS	Mr. Crap (4)

Critic Reviews

Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Dec, 1991		100
Raze	DOS	May, 1991	89 out of 100	89
Power Play	DOS	Apr, 1991	85 out of 100	85
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	Feb, 1991	9.6 out of 12	80
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Jan, 1992	76 out of 100	76
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Mar, 1995	72 out of 100	72
Amiga Action	Amiga	Mar, 1992	56 out of 100	56
Play Time	Amiga	Feb, 1992	45 out of 100	45
Imperium Gier	DOS	Sep 12, 1999		40
GameHippo.com	DOS	Aug 15, 1998	4 out of 10	40

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Trivia

256 color version

Players who owned the 16-color version of the game were a couple of months later invited to send away to Dynamix with proof of purchase to obtain free diskettes containing the 256-color version.

Extras

The box came with maps and a very big manual with information about the Red Baron, WOI, photo's, aircraft specifications, the lot.

Freeware release

This 16 color version was made available as freeware to promote and make amends for the late release of Red Baron II.

Multiplayer

Sierra's on-line community known as the ImagiNation Network (INN) featured, among many other games, a multiplayer version of Red Baron. The multiplayer version was popular and attracted quite a following until the network was unfortunately shutdown in 1996. The Red Baron community supported many squardons (some of which still exist today in other on-line flight simulators), inter-squadron wars, and a player-run "SkyWars Council."

Awards

• Computer Gaming World
  • November 1991 (Issue #88) – Simulation of the Year
  • May 1993 (Issue #106) - Introduced into the Hall of Fame
  • November 1996 (15th anniverary issue) - #4 in the “150 Best Games of All Time” list
• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 12/1999 - #92 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking

Information also contributed by Adam Baratz, Imajica, Kasey Chang and WildKard