"RB2 was a dissapointment from the very beginning - buggy to the point of being unplayable on release, even buggier 3D upgrade"
Analog, You're kind of hard on the old game there buddy! I never played RB2 but the stock RB3D is nothing like "unplayable". You can play the stock RB3D with a glide wrapper and it works fine. The game is not bug free, but declaring it unplayable or anything like that is somewhat misleading IMO...
The game is great!! Granted it has a few bugs, but at its heart it is a great sim!