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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Cool and unique retro-styled masterpiece	Zovni (9425)
Indiana Jones and the Barnstormers from Hell!	Dr.Bedlam (53)	unrated
A lot of fun, a lot of shooting, but the stunt flying parts can leave you frustrated	Kasey Chang (3673)	unrated
These guys almost had it perfect!	William Shawn McDonie (1161)
Not much for the hard core simmer, but likely the most fun you'll ever have	Maury Markowitz (221)

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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
PC Gamer (Netherlands)	Nov, 2000	88 out of 100	88
IGN	Sep 22, 2000	8.8 out of 10	88
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Nov, 2000	87 out of 100	87
PC Player (Germany)	Nov, 2000	86 out of 100	86
WomenGamers.com	Nov 07, 2000	8 out of 10	80
Gamekult	Oct 11, 2000	8 out of 10	80
Fragland.net	Sep 18, 2002	76.5 out of 100	76

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Trivia

If your opening menu appears without the majestic flag waving behind it and the movies play glorious audio for a not so glorious black screen, you are experiencing a known bug that Microsoft didn't feel it had to fix. Crimson Skies and the Ligos MPEG decoder don't get along. You need to find the properties page for the Ligos driver, and tell it to ONLY play MPEG-2 files. This will leave the MPG1's to Microsoft's decoder, which thankfully does work with the game.

It's not always this easy. If you can't get the property settings to stay put (I couldn't, the damn thing kept reasserting its association with MPG1's), then it's time to hit the registry.

ONLY EDIT THE REGISTRY IF YOU ARE 100% CONFIDENT. YOU CAN *CRIPPLE* YOUR MACHINE.

[Approver's Note: We agree - DO NOT edit you registry unlees you know your way around it. Do so at your own risk]

We're going to disable the Ligos driver. Do a registry search on the word "Ligos." This should take you to several keys (with huge numbers) that control the Ligos MPEG drivers. Each time you hit one that reads "MPEG Decoder" or "MPEG Splitter" go to the enormous number that labels the key (the GUID) and put an "X" inside the bracket, before the first number. This will uninstall Ligos without actually removing the references or files. If you need to activate Ligos later, just search on "Ligos" again. You'll find the Ligos keys sitting at the bottom of their respective lists (Both CLSID and the DirectShow Instance list). Remove the "X" and you have your Ligos back.

This problem apparently exists in several MS games. I know that MechWarrior 4 also has the video problem.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by DaHero (869) on Sep 01, 2000.