Crimson Skies

Crimson Skies
by Microsoft

Crimson Skies
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Product Summary

Brand: Microsoft
Format: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2000-09-16
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me
Model: C24-00006
Publisher: Microsoft
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Video Game Reviews of Crimson Skies

Customer Review: very good fun while it lasts.
Summary: 4 Stars

crimson skies is a fun,fantastic adventure like those old movies that your dad watched. the story is good, the planes are fast, and the girls are cute. the only down side is that the d word is used twice,and some one tells the villen to go to hell. thats about it. if you dont have a problem with that,then get this game NOW!

Description of Crimson Skies

It's 1937. Air pirates roam the skies over a shattered America. You are Nathan Zachary - dashing air pirate and ace pilot. Lead a squadron of privateers in thrilling ground level missions. Along the way romance a bevy of dangerous femme fatales, but be warned - these beauties can turn on you faster than a Fairchild in a terminal tail spin.
Hearkening back to the days when flight simulators had story lines and gamers valued playability over flight model fidelity, Crimson Skies is one of the more unusual games to appear in quite some time. The game is set in a fictional 1930s America, where sinister air pirates threaten both the sky and the ground and only you (playing the role of intrepid air adventurer Nathan Zachary) can save the day.

Both the premission briefings and the missions themselves play out like the campiest of Hollywood cliffhanger serials. Everything from the music to the way the dialogue is delivered evoke memories of the few episodes of Mystery Squadron and Tailspin Tommy we've seen. It's the kind of game where your enemies taunt you while you're flying, stately zeppelins float through the sky, and stunts are encouraged--the crazier the better. In fact, every time you perform an aerial feat that is particularly skillful (or stupid), the game automatically takes a picture of the dramatic event for your photo album.

Graphically, things couldn't be much better. The various planes are fanciful caricatures of real models of the period and are very detailed. The terrain and ground objects look amazing and are packed with little details. Mission environments are relatively small, but we never felt confined, thanks to the well-crafted mission objectives.

So is Crimson Skies an action game or a flight simulator? If it's this fun and stylish, who cares? The flight model is realistic enough that dogfights and canyon runs are challenging--speed bleeds off as you climb or tighten your turns, and the planes actually feel like they have some mass and inertia. On the other hand, missions are so over the top that you can't help but feel like you are playing an arcade game. Whether you are squeezing through mountaintop tunnel or barnstorming a hangar (and watching hapless pursuers smack into the sides of said objects), Crimson Skies is more reminiscent of Star Wars than of an episode of Wings on the Discovery Channel. However you want to categorize it, one thing is clear: Crimson Skies is a high-flying blast. --T. Byrl Baker


Alas, mounting isolationism, prohibition, and the economic depression of the 1930s has taken its toll on America in the air-combat/adventure game Crimson Skies. The former United States has been fractured into regional blocs, and the skies above have been filled with superstar pirates and bootleggers taking advantage of the burgeoning air-transport system. You'll play as Nathan Zachary, a swashbuckler/ladies' man with an assortment of privateer missions that will require you to be a daredevil flyer, ruthless dogfighter, and a good judge of character since there is no honor among thieves. You'll steal government fighters for parts and save beautiful damsels in distress. A special logbook tracks all of your adventures, or, if you'd rather, you can put the cart before the horse by using special pull-down menus in the log to create your own adventure from scratch. The game includes 24 single-player missions and supports up to 16 players on MSN Gaming Zone.

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