Wings allows you to select from a group of five pilots, two Brits, an Irishman, a Canadian, and a Yank, and embark of a series of 20 missions (although some missions are more than one stage), culminating in an ultimate final showdown with the Red Baron himself.
Well, today, kids, we get to punch a hole in the legend (and his plane), and win one for Snoopy, with Wings 2: Aces High. Despite the carnage, though, the air war has been somewhat romanticized over the years pilots doing battle like knights of old, diving, rising, swinging through the air as the men on the ground watched in awe, eventually creating the legend of Manfred von Richtofen, better known today as the Red Baron. An entire generation of Frenchmen, Germans, Britons, and to a lesser extent, Americans was smashed like breaker waves hitting the beach in the fields of Flanders and northeastern France. World War I on the Western Front was a hellish cauldron of death and despair.
