Crimson Skies is an arcade flight simulator, set in an alternate reality in the year 1937. Based on a FASA pen-and-paper game, the player is cast as a daring rogue who flies missions for fame and fortune. The planes look like a mixture of futuristic planes and planes from WW2.

The single player missions let the player complete jobs such as finding a treasure, hijacking an experimental plane from the enemy or defending their base, a huge zeppelin.

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User Reviews

Cool and unique retro-styled masterpiece	Zovni (9427)
Not much for the hard core simmer, but likely the most fun you'll ever have	Maury Markowitz (222)
A lot of fun, a lot of shooting, but the stunt flying parts can leave you frustrated	Kasey Chang (3664)	unrated
Indiana Jones and the Barnstormers from Hell!	Dr.Bedlam (53)	unrated
These guys almost had it perfect!	William Shawn McDonie (1153)

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The Press Says

Daily Radar	2000		100
Gamer's Pulse	Oct 11, 2000	94 out of 100	94
Game Informer Magazine	Nov, 2000	8.75 out of 10	88
Jeuxvideo.com	Oct 23, 2000	17 out of 20	85
Game Informer Magazine	Nov, 2000	8.25 out of 10	82
WomenGamers.com	Nov 07, 2000	8 out of 10	80
Gameplanet	Oct 25, 2000		80
JeuxVideoPC.com	Aug 03, 2006	16 out of 20	80
GameSpot	Sep 22, 2000	7.7 out of 10	77
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 07, 2001	75 out of 100	75

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Trivia

Bugs

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 addressed on the very first patch, however.

Installation

During installation of the game you are treated to a radio play featuring Nathan Zachery (the player character) and the Fortune Hunters. However, on faster machines, the installation finishes before the radio play does... and cuts the drama short!

Intro

The introduction movie to Crimson Skies is done in the style of 1930s newsreel footage... complete with propaganda.

Merchandise

In addition to the game, Crimson Skies universe also extends to a tabletop RPG, novels a comic book line and a planned, but never made, movie from Dreamworks.

Pictures

One of the features in the game is the ability to change your "momento" on the "stateroom" screen. The momento is a picture frame containing B&W photographs of a variety of subjects, mostly women, but also of your dog, yourself, and yourself with Black Swan. As you win more missions, you can get even more pictures to put inside.

You can export most items you "won" in your scrapbook to your Windows desktop. For example, when you took out the sub, you get a picture of your gang posing with a life preserver from the sub. You can export that to desktop! You can also export most of those women pictures (such as the one in the screenshots).