Rise of Flight: First Great Air War, New Free No Time Limit Demo

[Coraline]

I know there are a few threads through the search feature about Rise of Flight.  Though I thought others may be interested if you love early aviation like I do to try and pick up the new Free to Play Demo.  Yes Demos are always Free... normally.  Though this demo is new compared to Rise of Flight's old demo.

New Features:
1. Unlimited Access to All Game modes
2. No Time Limits
3. Multiplayer is open and free you can play with none demo users

Only down point of the demo is you get stuck with only two airplanes available.  In short they're now giving away the "Cheapest" retail version of Rise of Flight which only came with two aircraft out for free now.  Demo Users get full access and even an account they can create without spending a single ounce of money.  When as a demo user you can purchase/buy any items/aircraft in the game and customize the aircraft selection to your liking.  I hope you enjoy or at least look into it if you love period of aviation like I do.  Because like one person told me "Rise of Flight has the potential to be the absolute best flight simulator of all time."  I would not say that lightly either.

http://riseofflight.com/en  Play It Free Button on the right side in green. hehe

 

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

What 2 free planes do you get?

 

[Rujasu]

If I had to guess, the Fokker D.VII and the Spad 13. The only new thing in the demo is the lack of a time limit, it seems. No, wait, it's the retail game for free, just like the OP said.

 

[Coraline]

It is the entire retail game for free.  The Demo used to only allow people to play mission mode.  All modes are available including multiplayer, and the new career mode. 

Planes you're restricted to are the Albatross DVa and Spad 13.  Though you can fly against ALL aircraft in the game it's self so. hehe

It is a attempt to draw people into the game.  Since they converted it a long while ago so people can purchase airplanes individual, so the demo was now opened up to let them just purchase aircraft they want to have, rather than forcing them to buy a package which came with aircraft people did not want which was the only way to get out of DEMO status.    Since demo status is pretty much gone everything is open to you, but you only get the demo aircraft until you pick and choose what you wish. hehe

 

[Rujasu]

Oh, right, it was the Albatros that they gave. Both of the aircraft they give for free are very nice planes, though personally I think the Spad is a terrible machine. Buying the Dolphin made dogfighting on the allied side a much more pleasant experience.

 

[DanAngleland]

I would play this if I had a joystick, but I don't, so....

It's a great shame that this game hasn't got the sales/online player base it deserves (I presume these are the reasons practically the entire game is now free). I remember seeing screenshots and developer blogs of it before it came out, and I was struck by the beauty of it.

 

[Coraline]

I just cry at the sight of such old airplanes.  I find the First Great Air War perhaps the only really romantic air war.  No radios, no parachutes, everyone was a flying knight in personally painted aircraft, all fighting to be the best or just to stay alive in what was unproven technology, they were the ones who went up creating the tactics, developing the methods that would be passed down to pilots of the future.  They had no books to refer to, no years of old veteran to train them.  Only a hand full who survived the early years of the war to pass down to the pilots of the later years.   

The actually air war really only lasted the greater part of 3 years of  the over 4 year conflict, from their only a hand full of the famous pilots of that war came out a live, no matter which side they fought on.  The Germans had great success early on, until the Allied powers really just started to beat them by sheer numbers of aircraft.  Great aces fell, people like Richthofen the Red Baron, Albert Ball, Mannock, Werner Voss, Hawker, eta eta. 

Richthofen lead what was considered the most successful fighter squadron of the war.  Most of which in the squadron he demanded they'd be aces, if they could not achieve he would train and help you achieve it.  Richthofen's Flying Circus had this aura of invincibility at one time.  Then many of Richthofen's closest friends kept falling as the odds dramatically went against them,  him himself eventually fell to a single bullet through the heart, and to this day no one knows who shot him down.  I always like to say Fate gave him death out of pitty. 

Watch this it is quite a fun fan trailer that really shows the game and it's physic and just how cool it is, but yet is also entertaining to watch. hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lTT3BayFnk