Crimson Skies
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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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1001 Video Games
Crimson Skies appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
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).
Awards
- GameSpy
- 2000 – Special Award for Sound
- GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 01/2001 - Best Simulation in 2000
Information also contributed by Kasey Chang and WildKard
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Crimson Skies Board Game
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Patch v1.02
Microsoft's download site for the Crimson Skies Update v1.02
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- MobyGames ID: 2320
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Game added by DaHero.
Additional contributors: Zovni, Abi79, Patrick Bregger, FatherJack.
Last modified March 2nd, 2023.