Crimson Skies | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 2146
Platform: Xbox
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: p06001
Model: 805529097681
UPC: 827307933011
EAN: 0827307933011
ASIN: B00008G75X
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | It's the 1930s and you play a dashing air pirate named Nathan Zachary -- travel around the world with him, to solve the mystery of his friend's murder | | • | Pilot ten different war planes armed with everything from napalm to magnetic grapples | | • | Swoop high & low in search of stunt zones, where you'll uncover game secrets and weapon upgrades | | • | Use the environment as a weapon -- trigger landslides, collapse water towers, and shoot down bridges | | • | Four-person multiplayer madness as you enter dogfights with enemy aircraft |
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Product Description
In Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, you'll pilot classic aircraft in a major swashbuckling adventure!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 77 more reviews...
 Don't let this one FLY under your Radar... May 31, 2008
Crimson Skies- High Road To Revenge
Before I start this review, I would like to say that I hate most flying games. Okay. This is one of the best games I've played. I didn't think much of it, as it was a gift, but this game proved me wrong. Aviation games are usually not something I even look at. This game blew me away with its graphics, gameplay, storyline, and sound. I fully recommend this to every one. On a side note, this comes with a demo of Voodoo Vince and some videos.
Graphics- 9.5/10
The only thing you can complain about is that the CG between the action isn't perfect. It is very well done CG though. Everything else is perfect by X-Box standards. The level design of this game is some of the best I've ever seen. You will love exploring the incredible world they give you. Whether it is: canyons, islands, underground cities, or above ground metropolises, you will love it all. You travel to many different worlds to play in, so it's not repetitive either. The final couple stages are put together so well, it's mind blowing. You planes are very well designed and all look very interesting.
Story- 8.5/10
You are Nathan Zachary of The Fortune Hunters. You live in an alternate 1930s; a world in which The Great Depression tore apart the United States. The United States has turned into many different self-governing states. Many have taken to the skies to steal and control. The game starts off with you having a gambling problem. You have lost your zeppelin and your plane. You take your plane back and work to getting your zeppelin back. As time goes on, you are asked to keep Dr. Fassenbiender's plans for a weathering machine safe. The machine could be used for many great things...or it could be used to create F-5 Tornados. Of course, someone knows about the weathering machine and you are on a chase to figure out who it is. Your story leads to many turns and twists and is very well thought out.
Sound- 8.5/10
The music will always match the mood of what you are doing. If you are exploring canyons, you will have quiet, mysterious music playing. If you are engaging in air warfare, you will have fast paced music that gets your heart beating. The voice acting is done very well by most of the characters. Some of the characters just sound too unrealistic though. Weapon and plane sounds are done to perfection.
Gameplay- 9.5/10
This is an arcade aviation game. Does that mean it's only worth a quarter to play? No. It has arcade physics. This mean you won't have you do everything perfect and the game can create some tight squeezes for you too escape. You start in Sea Haven doing missions to try to find Big John. He is the only person that knows how to fly your Zeppelin. You are in a free environment. Much like Grand Theft Auto III, you can do whatever mission you want and in whatever order you like. You will have missions where you: attack planes, use turrets, race, navigate, steal planes, and much more. You ability to use turrets or planes in most missions keeps the game interesting. Also, the variety in missions keeps the game very fun. The bosses on this game are incredible and are some of the most well thought out even compared to God of War. Unlike GOW though, there are many bosses in this game for you destroying pleasure. The Multi-Player in this game is pretty fun, but not really a major focus of the game. There is a game called Wild Chicken that is extremely fun though. You try to catch a chicken and return it to your base for points. Yeah, it's crazy, but its very fun. I haven't played online as I don't have X-Box Live.
Difficulty- 10/10 (Note- This is how much I like the difficulty)
Even on Easy you have a have some challenge. That's the way it should be. If you think that's too easy, you can try any of the other three harder difficulties. Some of the final stages are very hard and you will really feel like you accomplished something. The game is really short, and can probably be beaten in around a day of good gaming. The game will still leave you satisfied after playing it though, and that makes the game perfect.
Overall- 9.5/10
This is one of the best games I've played in a long time. Don't just avoid it because it's an aviation game; buy it now! Really, the game is just that much fun. The single player is one of the best I've played in a long time, and the multiplayer is good fun once you're done. I recommend this to everyone.
an overall great game for either xbox console May 16, 2008
If only more games were like this.
Good graphics for the time. interesting story and concepts. and Great Controls. No this game isnt perfect. Like most games, there is major repetition. protect this, destroy that, pick up this. But that is everygame. This game has just enough variety. A dozen planes all upgradeable, but one. AA Guns. even trucks. Yeah there are a few things puzzling, why is the follow the leader so hard? why is the runway in front of a building you crash into. But honestly thats about it? my only two concerns, one is a level the other is negligble.
The style is very similar to SKY CAPTAIN, with Jude Law, Alternate history. and the Main character looks surprising like the Main character in UNCHARTED.
OVERALL pick up this game, you wont be dissapointed. UNLESS you expect everygame to be GTA. but there is enough variety and optional side missions to compare to that game
 Good game, overall May 11, 2008
This game is a lot of fun, story is fairly interesting. It tends to get repetitive in places, boss fights especially, but that isn't constant by any means, and the dogfighting is well done. The online is fairly good, not great but it will fill a few days before you set it down. Planes are interesting, characters are relatively engaging, gameplay and graphics are very polished. Overall, fairly good.
FUN, FUN, FUN!!! December 29, 2007
This game is a GREAT game, people do play it online but not that many. The maps are great they make the game more fun. You can bring geust into the game and it is a 4-player so if you have a four friends at your house they can play with you. Overall this video game is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 How long will it take you to break your controller? September 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a fun game. Wee, woohoo, yippee! You learn to fly the planes with the greatest of ease, and zip through the storyline. The graphics are great! Sometimes you have to replay a part 2 or 3 times to get past it. It's challenging! But then, you get to a part in the story called Soloho's Challenges (go on, google it). That is where the game ends for most people. Because suddenly, your are required to have a skill level that is totally out of line with the rest of the game - sorta like "catch this peanut, catch this peanut, STOP THESE BULLETS WITH YOUR TEETH!". After 40, 50, 60 tries, you take the disk out of the xbox, and throw it away. It'll make you angry. You will never finish it. Or if you do finish it, you'll never get that 40 hours of your life back... It's explain why such a highly rated game ended up in the $5 and under bin.
I loved it right up to the moment I hated it. And then I hated it enough to pitch out. I'm not sadistic enough to trade this piece of junk in... If you must play it, try to borrow it. Most people who own it will say "keep it".
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