yeah, the damage model of this game was ahead of its time, i always have hated those simulations where your plane just exploded and made a hole in the ground no matter how you hit it.. this game was a game changer in this aspect.
Maybe not ahead of its time. Maybe the times just suck now for gaming. Too many good games from this time period made with way more primitive tech. Its the corporations that run the gaming world now, they suck.
The saddest part of this is that no other flight sim has given me the same feels as this game and Longbow 2. Here we are 22 years later, and there's still nothing that can take their place.
To be fair I find the Il-2 Battle of ... series pretty decent in that regard. You have scripted campaigns as well as dynamic (or rather random) campaigns similar to the one in Red Baron 2/3D with the newspaper (news from the front along with top aces section / kill board) , squadron (each pilot having a name and being able to die in a mission only to replaced by another one) etc. Sadly we have no modern times flight that simulates that (besides perhaps BMS which is modded to death at this point). DCS World could impement some of this "being a pilot in a war" feeling but right now it feels rather sterile in that regard.
It goes further back for me: Digital Integration Tornado, Fleet Defender… I feel you mate. Everything else got so sterile and too much sandbox like. There is no real experience unlike in those mentioned sims, Falcon BMS and flying by some serious ground wars with a few battles happen on the horizon… tanks firing at each other etc. Even ~10MB Tornado delivers this feeling. Look at this (and more of this epic channel here) and check the comments for time stamps ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F6fVlHQjZBc.html
My late grandad had the original discs, I must have played couple of hundred hours playing! I got to the point when I realised I could pretend like I was a super heavy bomber and would drop 2000lbs bombs and then respawn and instantly drop bombs again and repeat and watch them on the bomb cam. Also loved to set up missions with large amounts of fighters going towards each other at the same altitude for complete carnage. One of my favourite games ever
Mine was Sierra/Dynamix Red Baron, then Aces of the Pacific followed by USNF97, TG then I got a rom in the mail for WB...bought WWII Fighters then F/A18 Hornet Korea, found Fighter Ace online then Pacific Fighters filled the void FA left when online servers went down. Hurricane Harvey took out my rig (TM ERCS, SFS F15 H.O.T.A.S.) now I'm flying Fighter Wing 3.1 it's a new WWI Multiplayer air combat simulator app maybe your up for a lil 1v1 sometime? Cheers!!
Played with that game when I was deployed in the Golan heights with the Canadian Armed forces in 1999-2000, it was a very hot WW2 flight sim at the time, thx for the trip down in memory lane.
Oh yes ! i have this one and several important Jane's games in big boxes with huge manuals, bought them at their time : F15, F/A 18, longbow gold, longbow 2, 688i hunter killer, WWII fighters, IDF, Fleet Command,, USAF. Taht was marvelous times with Jane's simulators.
I would not have thought that Colonel Anderson is still alive in 2022. Went to WW2, was a P51 Ace, flew Thunderchiefs in 'Nam as well as commanding that air wing, test pilot for McDonnell Douglas, good friends with Brig. General Yeager, outlived both Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, and still going after the shittiest couple of years we have had in a while.
Watched this video and brought so many memories of playing this when I was 28 years old in 98 lol! I actually just found this on moddB and downloaded it and played it for the first time in many many years!
Same!!! So much nostalgia! I was like 9 playing this on my parents old PC back in 2001 lol. Dang thing would crash their PC all too often while playing but I still played the hell out of it. Just ordered a copy with a flight stick to experience it again after all these years!
The narrator in the museum is Edward Herrmann. He was narrator for many History Channel documentaries in the 90s and 00s. He's also an actor you'll recognize in a lot of popular movies. I loved this game, still nothing like it to this day. The reviews were middling, which was strange given how people loved the dog fighting.
THAT game blew my mind then,,,,,so ahead of its time....and the music is a great touch,...i miss that kind of games...today you must attend a flight school for 3 months to play a sim...
This was one of the first games I ever remember playing as a child, didn’t know how to do anything, could barely navigate the menu, but it sure was fun.
I picked this up for $10 off the shelf at WalMart in maybe 2002 and it was a move I did not regret. It's cool to see it played by someone who knows what they're doing.
We had a blast working on this game. I remember trying to create true 36-plane B-17 box formations in the (internal) 3D mission editor but the AI would always cause the planes to run into each other. 🤣
Ah WWII fighters. The damage model was ahead of its time as it wasn't until il2 (if it was any earlier idk what game was) where you could see your plane take visual/phisical damage. You gotta love the main menu being based on aircraft museums like the AMC museum in dover
I remember playing this back in the day. It was the first sim I'd ever played with a 3D cockpit, and it totally blew me away. I especially loved the mission where you could steal the Me-262 and fly it to your home base.
I recently bought and restored a win98 era pc so I could play old gems like this again! Was my favorite WW2 flight sim until IL-2 1946, but still great to play today. All the Janes published flight sims like Fighters Anthology, USAF, F-15, F/A-18, Longbow 2 and on were the best at the time. I know DCS world is the new king of simming, but you can't beat the beautiful big-boxes, with the spiral bound manuals and reference cards that we used to get...
For me it's kinda funny. I have incredible memories of this game, but not exactly for the flight. As a kid I would sit in the menu for hours taking in the scenery of the museum and listening to the songs they picked for the soundtrack. (Hell, one of my fave all-time songs is because of this game. "Take the A Train" by Duke Ellington) I feel like good creative menu design is underrated and underappreciated as hell, and this is by far one of the highest marks for me.
Great sim and great video! 13:06 The latest patch, 1.08f, did add wingman commands which are listed in the Readme file, even if they are quite rudimentary.
Great vid - I just downloaded it including dgvoodoo and everything, but the game crashes any time I try to fly. I can get to the museum screen just fine and interact with that, but entering a missio nor using the "Fly Now" button on the launcher just crashes back to desktop. Any ideas on fixing that? Running on WIndows 10, downloaded the game off of Moddb
Anyone know the controls to go to and Back from the external view? And any good websites or photos that have the a list of all the controls? Just downloaded it from moddb and got a massive rush of nostalgia.
You can't get this digitally anywhere. You might look for it on abandoware sites or hunt down retail copy on auction site. After installing the game just copy/paste 4 dll files from dgVoodoo2 (from dgVoodoo2\MS\x86\ folder) into the game folder and run the game. It should work fine.
The flight model and objective triggers really sucked, but it was a game ahead of its time. I used to love making massive ground battles. All the tanks would just cluster together until everybody died in a huge pile 🤣
AI crashing and stealing kills, that should have been got rid of in testing. I got the demo from PC Gamer and it felt really janky so I wasn't inspired to buy it.
@@Daimo83 Actually there were more escort fighters, not only my flight of 4. I wonder if this is common occurence, it was first time it happened and I already flew several missions in campaign and few single missions.
from film to music to game it was quality over quantiy back in the days it was about passion and artistic expression but now everything became mass produced shit they all do the art for the money its oaky to do that and somehow it's inevitable in the world of capitalism but the problem is that's all they care from begiinging to end ex:films like once upon a time in america , cinema paradisco - now: eveyhing is about marvel super heroes LOL musics like oasis,the smiths,david bowie - now:strippers think they are musicians games like early toral war series ,crisis1 -now:better looking graphic but that's all even the good documentary channels like history channel or discovery channel became shittier .... but the funny thing is they have more resource and more audienece and better technology compare to back in the days idk WTF is this world about anymore
