Red Baron Pack

This is the very last time I purchase any DOS game. It runs on seemingly everything but Windows 7. So all of this pack is completely worthless to me. And I'm not taking the time to try a ton of workarounds just to make this fossil work.

I'll admit I'm not usually a flight sim fan, the awkward juddery controls on a keyboard put me terminally off IL:2 Sturmovik (who wants to spend hours mapping keys for a perfect setup when you could just play a different game) Red Baron 2 therefore suffers from my inexperience. However in my defence this game just tosses you in at the deep end and expects you to cope. There are no training missions or tutorial, your first mission is randomly generated and could be easy or intensely difficult. My inexperience, the devilish control system (nobody has owned a dedicated gaming joystick since the mid-90's) and the game's absolute insistence on a "true" WW1 flying sim means long periods spent propping the plane up as you fly over a wasteland trying to figure out the unintuitive camera angles before brief periods of action where (in my case) you're shot down, maimed or injured. I guess that does make it a lot like WW1, where the average lifespan of a new pilot could be measured in days. That doesn't make it a good game though, or even very fun to play, especially as newbie. I know the game is old but I'm pretty sure even back in the late 90's games had tutorial levels and some form of support for new players. That's my chief gripe, that and the lack of options for someone who doesn't want to re-map their keyboard. Anyway I downloaded Freespace 2 with this and I'm glad I did now, 2 hours of the most galling and stupefyingly boring gameplay later I can't wait to be launched into a sim which might cut the beginner a little slack now and then.

Possibly the worst WW1 Flight Simulation that I have played ! I was hoping this game was like the original Wings that I so much enjoyed playing on my Amiga 500 so so so so many years ago !