Crimson Skies (Windows)

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Description

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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Part of the Following Groups

• Crimson Skies series
• Games made into books
• Games made into comics
• Green Pepper releases
• Setting: 1930s
• Setting: Alternate history
• Software Pyramide releases
• Theme: Dieselpunk
• Ubisoft eXclusive releases

User Reviews

Cool and unique retro-styled masterpiece	Zovni (10623)
Not much for the hard core simmer, but likely the most fun you'll ever have	Maury Markowitz (271)
A lot of fun, a lot of shooting, but the stunt flying parts can leave you frustrated	Kasey Chang (4608)	unrated
Indiana Jones and the Barnstormers from Hell!	Dr.Bedlam (56)	unrated
These guys almost had it perfect!	William Shawn McDonie (1180)

Critic Reviews

Gamer's Pulse	Oct 11, 2000	94 out of 100	94
Power Unlimited	Oct, 2000	9 out of 10	90
PC Gamer (Netherlands)	Nov, 2000	88 out of 100	88
Game Informer Magazine	Nov, 2000	8.75 out of 10	88
Gameplay (Benelux)	Oct 30, 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
PC Action (Germany)	Oct, 2000	85 out of 100	85
GameSpot	Sep 22, 2000	7.7 out of 10	77
Fragland.net	Sep 18, 2002	76.5 out of 100	76

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Trivia

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

Related Web Sites

• Crimson Skies (official website)
• Crimson Skies Board Game (Information about the board game.)
• Patch v1.02 (Microsoft's download site for the Crimson Skies Update v1.02)