Welcome to the world of Crimson Skies!
Enjoy an all-new experience in flight combat! Crimson Skies puts you in the
cockpit for thrilling dogfights and aerial adventure.
In this alternate history, the year is 1937 and the United States is fractured
into squabbling nation-states, brought about by the weight of the Great Depression,
regional prohibition and mounting isolationism. Giant Zeppelins crisscross the
skies carrying both passengers and cargo, and airborne bandits are a constant
threat.
Enjoy an all-new experience in flight combat! Crimson Skies puts you in the
cockpit for thrilling dogfights and aerial adventure. Use your cunning and skill
to outwit the dastardly villians, and use the terrain around you to attain tactical
superiority!
Become the ace of the skies with Crimson Skies' intuitive flying system! Easy
to learn yet hard to master, Crimson Skies captures the true spirit of combat
flying with an intuitive flying system, which will let you command the air with
ease. The focus is on the art of dog fighting not the science of flying!
Grip the yoke tight as you fly low in completely interactive 3-D environments!
Crimson Skies puts the emphasis on flying low and using it's faithfully rendered
1937 America landscape to your advantage. Follow the line of the Hollywood Hills
as you swoop in for a daring raid on downtown LA, or hug the coastline and bank
against a cliff wall to dodge the enemy dogging your six!
Dodge flak as you go Zeppelin to Zeppelin in on-line multiplayer combat! Crimson
Skies comes fully multiplayer ready via the MSN Gaming Zone whether you want
to go one on one with a friend or fly squadron on squadron with a group of your
air pirate cronies.
It's like a time machine, only better! You are immediately immersed in the world
of Crimson Skies. Smell the leather of your bomber jacket as you become Nathan
Zachary, a handsome and dashing air pirate, in an alternate 1937 America where
gunship diplomacy and air piracy rule the day.
Blaze a name for yourself with hot lead in dozens of daredevil raids and aerial
adventures! Over 24 high paced and intricately designed missions promise to
enmesh you in the complex and engrossing story line of the Crimson Skies universe.
Capture your daring aerial exploits in your very own personal scrapbook. Each
mission in Crimson Skies comes jam packed with a sky-full of primary and secondary
objectives. See how many snap shots and headlines you can grab in the course
of your adventures via a personalizable memoir which captures your deeds in
the game and the mementos from your many encounters... Crimson
Skies puts you in a world of bigger planes, badder guns -- and more beautiful
women. All new fantasy planes, weapons and characters make this a flight experience
you're unlikely to forget!
Swoop and soar in eleven exotic and specially fitted fighting planes! Fly everything
from the nitrogen charged Whitley and Douglas Raven fighter-bomber to the buzzing
and whirring air gyro to the latest Hughes Aircraft prototypes.
Dogfight dastardly villains for air supremacy and the spoils of air-commerce!
Fight fast and low as you fly against some of the craftiest pilots ever to grab
a yolk. The goal of the game is air piracy as you play the role of Nathan Zachary,
the handsome and dashing leader of the notorious air pirates, the Fortune Hunters.
Snatch the super secret prototype to add to your aerial arsenal! As the daring
commander of an air pirate wing, you need to constantly be on the lookout for
new fighter designs to steal and reverse-engineer. Listen closely to the air
chatter and don't forget to ask about any rumors floating around the pilot community
regarding the latest advances from Crimson Skies' many industrial titans.
Immerse yourself in a fully interactive storyline in a gaming universe that
captures the sweep and romance of 1930's America!
Interact with dozens of denizens
in the Crimson Skies world as the handsome and daring Nathan Zachary, notorious
buccaneer and renowned ladies' man.
Air chatter with friends and foes, cut-scenes, in-game animation sequences and
a variety of dynamic mission objectives will help dedicated air pirates live
and breath in the Crimson Skies world while engaging an array of fearless adventurers,
sinister plotters, bloodthirsty sky-pirates and militia heroes.
Along the way, gamers may run up against ace pilots like Paladin Blake, famous
starlets such as Lana Cooper or deadly femme fatales like the Black Swan!
Watch out, that girl you seduce tonight might be the deadly vixen gunning for
you tomorrow.
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Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000
Pentium II 266 MHz or higher processor
64 MB of RAM
675 MB of free Hard Disk space
4X CD-ROM drive
8 MB / 3D Video Card
Sound Card compatible with DirectX version 7.0a or higher
Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
Speakers or headphones required for audio
Online: Additional 96 MB needed for Windows 2000; 28.8 Kbps modem or
better; LAN or null-modem cable; Internet Explorer 3.02 or Netscape
Communicator 4.0