Crimson Skies

Publisher: Microsoft Corporation

Developer: Zipper Interactive

Category: Simulation

Release Dates

N Amer - 09/14/2000

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GameZone's Review

5.0
GZ Rating

Gameplay	10
Graphics	10
Sound	10
Difficulty	10
Concept	10
Multiplayer	0
Overall	5.0

Reviewer: John Brandon

Review Date: 09/29/2000

Crimson Skies is a lesson in how an incredibly awesome game interface, gameplay, and graphics can be so completely ruined by a game that just won’t run.

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Avg. Web Rating

8.4

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Description

In Crimson Skies players fly fast and low in a game reminiscent of a classic Hollywood tale, where dastardly enemies menace, evil plots abound, and a bevy of femme fatales awaits. As the handsome and daring air pirate Nathan Zachary, players take to skies filled with treacherous privateers, tricked-out fighter planes and giant aircraft-carrier zeppelins. Amid an ever-changing political landscape, Zachary and his notorious band of air pirates, the Fortune Hunters, have become the free agents in a fight for control of the skies. The game transports players to an alternate-reality 1937. The United States has been struck by the crushing blows of the Great Depression, the Great War and Prohibition, resulting in mounting isolationism. The once-budding road and railway system has been destroyed, leaving the skies as the only means of transport and commerce. Militias in the North, South, East and West have formed rival independent nations in a fight for air supremacy. It is an era where swing may be king but pilots rule, a world where the guns are bigger, the planes faster and the adventures more daring -- the world of Crimson Skies.

Hardware Requirements

Pentium 233 MHz or higher with a 8 MB 3D acceleror, Windows 95 +, 32 MB RAM, 300 MB Hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM speed, mouse, Direct Sound application programming interface version 6.0, 16-bit or PCI video card.