Crimson Skies is an arcade flight simulator, which plays in an alternate reality. Based on a FASA pen-and-paper game, you play the part of a daring rogue who flys missions for fame and fortune in an alternate reality 1937. The planes look like a mixture of futuristic planes and planes from WW2.

The single player missions are very various, as you have to complete jobs like finding a treasure, hijacking an experimental plane from the enemy or defend your homebase, which is a huge zeppelin. If you're done with the single-player-part you also will enjoy the multiplayer dogfights.

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Crimson Skies
	Crimson Skies (Jewel Case)	Windows	$19.95
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User Reviews

Cool and unique retro-styled masterpiece	Zovni (8824)
Indiana Jones and the Barnstormers from Hell!	Dr.Bedlam (53)	unrated
Not much for the hard core simmer, but likely the most fun you'll ever have	Maury Markowitz (203)
A lot of fun, a lot of shooting, but the stunt flying parts can leave you frustrated	Kasey Chang (3719)	unrated
These guys almost had it perfect!	William Shawn McDonie (1174)

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The Press Says

Game Revolution	Sep 01, 2000	A-	91
Power Unlimited	Oct, 2000	9 out of 10	90
IGN	Sep 22, 2000	8.8 out of 10	88
4Players.de	Nov 02, 2000	87 out of 100	87
PC Player (Germany)	Nov, 2000	86 out of 100	86
Jeuxvideo.com	Oct 23, 2000	17 out of 20	85
Privat Computer PC	2000	84 out of 100	84
Gameplanet	Oct 25, 2000		80
Gamekult	Oct 11, 2000	8 out of 10	80
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 07, 2001	75 out of 100	75

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Trivia

The original release of the game was extremely buggy with several engine-related problems, but worse than those was a horrible bug that erased your single player campaign whenever you started a multiplayer game. This was adressed on the very first patch, however.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by DaHero (902) on Sep 01, 2000.