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Red Baron Arcade
Publisher: Sierra
Developer: Stainless Games
Genre: Flight Simulator
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Platforms: Playstation 3, PC
ESRB: T - Teen
Reviewer: Eric
Wasn’t Red Baron Arcade a decent game on the PC when it was released last
year? I thought it was but all of the sudden it is on the Playstation 3 and it
is a whole new story. What happened during those couple of months when the
developers ported this game over to the Playstation 3?
Where to start with this game? The graphics are terrible. For $10 you are buying
a game that looks worse than a PSOne game. There isn’t anything good that can be
said about a game like this because I quite frankly thought these sort of games
were never going to be released again. It is one thing if a classic is brought
out but this…this is a disaster.
Red Baron Arcade has numerous clipping issues too. I had occasions where I was
flying right through the enemies. Fires look a whole lot worse too, it seems
like there is a red and orange clipping graphic that is trying to eat the some
what passable graphics.
The games saving grace, graphic wise, has to be the water. It does not look the
best but it sure looks a whole lot better than everything else in the game.
I could go on forever about the graphics, really I could. If I did that then I
couldn’t bring up the fact that this game has the most random invisible walls in
gaming history. When everything around you is just cut-and-paste work you start
to think that you are living in a real bad nightmare.
Trying to go through the games missions can be a bit of a challenge do to the
poor everything. Remember those invisible walls I mentioned? Sometimes they are
the very death of you if you don’t play your cards right. Then you also have the
fact that the enemy can pretty much hit you from wherever they want. Who cares
about that when you got…wait this game have nothing.
When you loose at a mission that means you have to sit through the games
annoying loading screens. There are no midway points in this game. When you
loose that’s it, tough luck, let the game load and do it all over again. Isn’t
it enough we have to endure 30 second load screens?
All of the problems in the solo gaming experience can be found during online
play. To tell the truth things seemed a lot worse online. I should have just
gave up trying to get into a match after 10 minutes but no I had to wait. What I
found was hell and the Red Baron was laughing in my face.
Final Verdict
Red Baron Arcade was a decent arcade game when it was released. Sony should have
saw how the Xbox 360 version was cancelled before they let the game get released
to the public. Thankfully you can download the demo but doing that is a waste.
Stay away from the Red Baron!
Rating Breakdown
Gameplay: 2 out of 10
+ Can’t lend anyone $10.
- Everything.
Graphics: 2 out of 10
+ Better than Pong.
- Everything.
Audio: 3 out of 10
+ Gunshot sounds.
- Do I have to say?
Replay Value: 1 out of 10
+ Can play DS or PSP during load times.
- Deleting the Red Baron Arcade can only be done once.
Overall
2 out of 10
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