Red Baron II is a computer game for the PC

IBM PC compatible

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, developed by Dynamix

Dynamix

Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of computer games from 1984 to 2001, best known for their flight simulator, Red Baron, the Front Page Sports series, Betrayal at Krondor, and their online multiplayer game, Tribes.-History:...

 and published by Sierra Entertainment

Sierra Entertainment

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. It is the follow-up to the immensely successful flight simulation Red Baron

Red Baron (game)

Red Baron is a video game for the PC, created by Damon Slye at Dynamix and published by Sierra Entertainment. It was released in 1990.As the name suggests, the game is a flying simulation set on the Western Front of World War I. The player can engage in single missions or career mode, flying for...

, released in 1990. Red Baron II was released in 1997

1997 in video gaming

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. The game featured four modes of play: Fly Now (A quick combat mode); Single Mission which included several missions and a mission generator to create new ones; Campaign mode, which featured one of the only truly dynamic campaigns in a modern flight simulator and which replicated combat on the Western Front of Europe from 1916 through 1918; and peer to peer online play.

One of the best features of the game (at least in solo mode) is the "live environment" (the previously mentioned "dynamic campaign"), meaning that alongside each mission the player flies, the mission generator also creates specific missions for EACH and EVERY friend or foe squadron in each and every aerodrome of the front.