PC - Windows : Crimson Skies Reviews
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Fun, but be aware of technical issue
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User
I first saw this game at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant/arcade where you sit in a plastic bubble that rocks and rolls with the movements of your joystick, lending an immersive feel to this combat flight simulator. I'm glad there is a version for the PC. Sure, the flight model is not exactly realistic and your wingmen are pretty much useless, but I was impressed by the fine voice acting and the whole 1930's heroic action movie feel. Several of the missions are of the "You want me to do WHAT?" variety, such as fending off a dozen enemy fighters to do an aerial pickup of some guy off a moving train or zeppelin before it blows up. Although some missions took me many attempts to succeed, this game held my interest all the way through, and I completed every one to the game's ending.
Personally experienced technical issue: The game runs fine in Windows XP on Athlon XP 2500 processor with 1GB RAM at highest 1024x768 resolution (hardware acceleration) on Nvidia Geforce 5200-based AGP graphics card. However, the game has problems running at this resolution on newer graphics cards such as Nvidia Geforce 6800GT PCIe card; problems which include corruption of the in-game drop-down menus and unpredictable termination during gameplay to Windows. This is with the Nvidia drivers as of August 2006. Setting Win98 compatibility mode didn't work for me. A workaround that actually works is to set a lower display resolution such as 800x600 (software rendered), which of course detracts from the visual experience.
The game is old (read: cheap) enough to buy more than 1 copy to take advantage of the multiplayer feature. Playing on separate PCs, my 9-yr old daughter and I enjoyed: Capture the flag, head-to-head dogfights, and a variation of the zeppelin missions, in which we liked to help each other destroy our own zeps.
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