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Sometimes the game market seems so choked with multi-year-in-development, multimillion dollar budget uber games that so often fall tragically short of expectations that it's often surprising when a budget title actually brings more fun to the table than many a new Ps3 games which are supposedly the "real" games.

Make no mistake, in buying video games, the Ps3 Red Baron Arcade definitely is a budget game. At this very moment it is for a mere $19.99, and it definitely doesn't have the depth or extras of your average full-price game, but sometimes the extra crap gets in the way of making a game fun... and naked of cut scenes, voices, complex mission structure and other high dollar features, it shows that a game can be fun even if the developers didn't mortgage a nation to make it.

It appears to me that Ps3 Red Baron Arcade is just a revised version of the twenty-five year old game known as Red Baron. Atari produced the original game. It featured a green and black 4 frame per second vector graphic wire frame flier. It was a lot of fun to play and even now I sometimes still play it. It brings back some great memories.

Ps3 Red Baron Arcade features 23 single player missions as well as online multiplayer missions through GameSpy. It also allows you to set the controls to either "arcade" or "simulation." The stick behaves more realistically under simulation mode, whereas arcade mode is mostly just point-and-shoot without having to worry about the actual method involved in flying a plane. This choice allows the game to appeal to both the casual gamer and the flight simulator enthusiast who might want a slightly more realistic experience.

But beyond that, there isn't much realism to be found here. Enemy planes often appear out of thin air to join the battle, and of course what biplane or tri plane could carry so many darn bombs? There's also an "energy" bar that refills over time that you can use to perform special maneuvers such as a turbo boost, and what my father (who is actually a pilot) refers to as an "Immelman," that is, basically half a loop-de-loop with a twist that makes you nearly instantly change direction.

The point is, you start the game, you start shooting, and you enjoy shooting down planes in fire and smoke. The Zeppelin-busting missions and the bombing missions are fun as well. The game also provides 8 different planes to unlock and use, each with different stats, and you can customize the paint scheme of your planes. You'll get shot down a lot in this game, but a single click starts the mission again, and it's rare that a mission will last more than 20 minutes anyway so it isn't overly punishing.

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