TITLE Crimson Skies
GENRE Simulator
PLATFORM PC
DEVELOPER Zipper Interactive
US PUBLISHER Microsoft
UK PUBLISHER Microsoft
NORDIC PUBLISHER Microsoft
ONLINE PLAY Yes
Official Fact Sheet:
Alas, mounting isolationism, prohibition and the economic depression of the 1930s has taken its toll on America in the air-combat/adventure game Crimson Skies. The former United States has been fractured into regional blocs and the skies above have been filled with superstar pirates and bootleggers taking advantage of the burgeoning air-transport system.
You’ll play as Nathan Zachary, a swashbuckler/ladies’ man with an assortment of privateer missions that will require you to be a daredevil flyer, ruthless dogfighter and a good judge of character since there is no honour among thieves. You’ll steal government fighters for parts and save beautiful damsels in distress. A special logbook tracks all of your adventures, or, if you’d rather, you can put the cart before the horse by using special pull-down menus in the log to create your own adventure from scratch. The game includes 24 single-player missions and supports up to 16 players on MSN Gaming Zone.
- Air-combat/adventure game set in an imaginative 1930s America
- Flight system that’s easy to learn and hard to master
- 24 missions include stealing government fighters and rescuing beautiful damsels in distress
- 11 exotic period crafts to fly, plus several others to challenge, including aircraft-carrying zeppelins
- Free Crimson Skies Novel – Crimson Skies Wings of Fortune Trilogy, Book One-Pirate’s Gold