Did you ever wish you could go back to the World War I days to join up with the German air force and shoot down the Allies? If so, you probably have issues, and might be interested in Sierra Online's Red Baron Arcade, an arcade-style dogfight simulator based on the Red Baron license. In Red Baron Arcade you take control of various aircraft and are thrown into dangerous missions that force you to bomb enemy structures, protect friendly forces, and more. Mostly you'll be shooting the living snot out of enemy aircraft. While sending allied forces to their painful and tragic deaths sounds like good, clean, fun, much like the wow powerleveling outcome of WWI for the Central Powers, not everything in Red Baron Arcade goes according to plan.

You start the game off by customizing your control scheme. There's the default up-is-up and down-is-down controls for the normal folk and the twisted inverted option for the rest of us weirdoes. There are also "realistic" and "simple" controls. The realistic mode attempts to mimic the unwieldy feeling of controlling an actual aircraft by making the screen tilt left and right as you turn. Since this mode makes me want to hurl, I stuck to the simple control scheme, which felt intuitive and natural. You can control your wow powerleveling aircraft with the mouse, keyboard or control pad, but the mouse controls are the best. The middle scroll button allows you to quickly slow down and speed up your evasive maneuvers on the fly (pun not intended). In addition, the precision of the mouse gives you first-person shooter pinpoint accuracy, which works great for mowing down targets.

While the game's first few levels serve as a tutorial of sorts, the later levels can make even a devout nun swear. You will die a lot in Red Baron Arcade, and most of the time it won't be your fault. Enemies can pepper your plane with bullets and send you to a fiery death in mere milliseconds. What makes matters worse is that wow gold when your health is low, this puts your fate in the game's hands. Sure you can squirm around in the air or press the space key twice to do a flip and fly in the opposite direction, but the cheap enemy artificial intelligence always knows your exact coordinates and a single bullet can easily send you to the Game Over screen. This proves extremely frustrating when you are mere inches away from picking up a health pickup, which happened to me more than once.

The graphics, which look terribly dated, are another reason to jump plane. The anti-aliasing, or lack thereof, makes the game look cheap. Textures are second rate, and you can almost count the number of polygons on the buildings with a single hand. wow gold I will admit that soaring through the clouds can look pretty cool.

What also made me happy was the music, which is actually pretty good. Unfortunately, the game has but a handful of songs; however, what is in the game is fairly epic and appropriate. The menu music sounds like a cheery song you might hear at the local fair, and the sound effects of your machine gun spraying ammo in conjunction with the constant revving of your vehicle's engine sounds solid.