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A good idea badly done

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This was one of the games that I had been really looking forward to this year, and sadly I have been disapointed. The underlying game concept was very cool; alt history air-piracy action with the ablity to customize planes and missions should have made Crimson skies a classic. Indeed when I first got the game I was blown away by the stunning grafics which were far better than thouse in MSCFS. Then I noticed the games extreamly bad quality of work that basically ruined the game. It has numerious bugs, for example in the basic version of the game if customize a plane for use in the "instant action" scenarios it erases your any campaign missions that you have completed, there is a patch for this that you can down load but something like that should have been caught befor the games realese. The other major bug is the tendecy for memory leaks to crash the game in a manner that forces you to use crtl+alt+delete to reboot your computer( it screws up your video settings otherwise). When you add this to the games habit of taxing system resourcs to the limit on even the fastest machines and the rather choppy frame rate you have a real looser of a game. In short Crimson Skies can be sumerized in seven words; good idea, bad execution, terrible quality control. My advice is save your money and get CFS2 instead.

Excellent game, except...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great, the flight model is a supurb example of how a completely arcade game should play, and all of the options are wonderful. Why then, one star? Every other mission (sometimes I can manage two in a row), after I've completed it, I get crashed back to the desktop w/o an error message. Microsoft support of course, knows nothing of the problem. Perhaps it's my computer (a P4 1500 w/ a Geforce 2), as noone else really mentions this problem, but this has made an otherwise 5 star game unplayable.

Think Twice Before Buying

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have to start by saying that this game has some very nice graphics and is highly enjoyable to play, however is has some major flaws. The single player campaign is sort of short, only 24 missions, and it will leave wanting much more. The big problem is multiplayer. Despite the fact that MS made this game and runs The Zone, attempting to play multiplayer via The Zone will leave you very angry. 95% of the people, including me, have the game crash on them every time a mp game is launched. Having tried it over LAN, this game is a lot of fun in mp, so having it crash every time leaves you extremely angry at the fact that its not compatible with a gaming service made by the same company!

About that load time--

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'll keep this short! I found the game unplayable on a P350, 64 MEG of memory. Great graphics, unbearable load times--Network play was great (person to person, not via the zone).

I recently borrowed a p750, GeForce2 with 256 meg of memory. What a dream! The game works well, most of the loading issues go away. It's just...considering what they list as their min. requirements. I say 3 stars.

Buggy game: good single player; so-so multiplayer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game can be a lot of fun -- as a single player game. The multiplayer game is very buggy, even with the top of the line system. Both the Zone and Gamespy Arcade have failed to adequately address the drop and memory suck issues. Hopefully a patch will come forward, however until that does I suggest you avoid this game as a multiplayer platform.

NOT A FLIGHT SIM...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Everyone is mentioning it, but no one seems to be bothered by it. The lack of physics while flying is VERY noticeable. Fly sideways, you should pull to that side and fall. Not here. While this makes it more "Fantasy like", if you're used to true flight sims, it'll take you a while to get used to flying here. I was disappointed by this more than anyone else though, it seems. Oh, and flying faster seems to improve maneuverability, rather than the typical slowing down for tighter turns.

The planes look great. The graphics are good. I loved getting to blast at a zepplin. My feeling is, someone needs to make a true flight sim like this, and have the top speeds, physics, and flight more realistic. Keep the zepplin aircraft carriers, and the awsome plane designs, and the graphics though.

If just a few things were better...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've been waiting for this game for what seems like years and I can't help but register some disappointment now that I finally have a copy. The concept is outstandingly original and fascinating, if superficially reminiscent of the old DOS game Air Power. The in-game graphics are great and the flight physics are a pleasant mix of sim-like and arcade. The box-art, in-game movies, voice acting, zeppelins, background story, and outlandish aircraft designs are juicy. The (skimpy) manual is also a hoot. Just about everything is great. If only the game worked like it should! On my machine (400mhz PII with a Diamond Monster II) the color and graphics gradually degrade until after about 30-40 minutes the screen becomes little more than a collection of bright green and yellow rectangles. The game is then completely unplayable without rebooting. There's clearly a problem with the graphics drivers but I've got the latest DX 7 Voodoo 2 reference drivers and the problem still occurs. Also, the in-game menus are grindingly slow, which seems really bizarre, given the fact that they do not seem to be particularly complex or graphics-heavy. This makes any attempt at designing my own aircraft and modifying mission loadouts an agonizing exercise. Twiddling one's thumbs for 5 minutes waiting for a pull-down menu to materialize is not my idea of fun. In some respects the game seems to play as if it was too hastily brought to market and not subjected to adequate beta testing. Maybe Microsoft will issue a patch that fixes the graphics incompatibilies and menu speed. I hope so, because there is no way I can currently justify giving this title the excellent score it would otherwise appear to deserve.

A cool game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty fun but it would be better if you could take off from the ground. I have had this game for a year and I also wish that it had cooler planes.

Nice

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i like this game...i haven't played multi but 1 player i fun...exept this game is short like only 24 missions...otherwise its great

Great oldie, but not with modern hardware

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

One of my all time favorite PC games. Not fully compatible with modern video subsystems (e.g., drivers, video hardware, etc.) or WinXP. I got it to work intermittently, but the text always displayed as rainbow colored noise. Would frequently crash to desktop, especially during cut-scenes.

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