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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.

best game I've played since Thief

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love the originality of this game. I won't describe the gameplay since that's been covered well by previous reviewers. The game runs as smooth as butter on my system (all settings cranked to the max) which is a Dell Dimension XPS 733r. That is a coppermine 733 Mhz, 128 MB RDRAM, GeForce 256 with 64 MB DDR RAM (Dell Brand GeForce) Sound Blaster Live. The only problem I have noticed is the mouse movement, which can be a little jerky in the menus. The load times do seem a little lengthy, but not unreasonable as with previous reviewers.

Unique Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Crimson Skies does what most games attempt to do, but few accomplish... create a believable, engrossing world that's incredibly fun! Sure, it's more of an arcade shooter than an actual flight sim, but that's fine by me. Most of the other flight sims I've tried are too mired in the details. Running out of fuel in the middle of a mission is not my idea of fun. Crimson Skies glosses over those details. Heck, you don't even get a fuel gauge! You do get a limited number of missiles (to keep you honest, I suppose) but the huge amount of ammo you carry will keep your machine guns warm the entire mission through.

Set in (a fictional) 1937, your planes are of limited technology. There are no radar screens here, but the game's designers compensate in a unique way. You can still "lock on" to a target, and it will display brackets around it if you're facing it. However, if the target leaves your range of vision, a "spyglass" will appear pointing you in the right direction (4:00, 5:00 etc...). While not exactly realistic, this avoids the speck hunts I used to have to do when playing my favorite bi-plane simulator (Red Barron). Of course, if you like straining your eyes, you can shut the spyglass off.

The complaints about the load times are deserved; they can take longer than expected. Download the patch from [Microsoft] to avoid the few glitches that shipped with the product. The patch doesn't speed up the load times, but it does make the game as stable as your coffee table.

Crimson Skies ranks as one of the most entertaining arcade-style flight sims ever made. Don't miss it!

Wonderful game but awful interface behavior

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is really great. I love it and the on-line game is even better.

That said, I am very VERY frustated by the menus behavior: It takes forever just to open a drop down list. There are constant accesses to the hard drive. That's unbearable! (Plus the music looping while you wait...) I tried to customize my plane once I had money but I gave up. 1 minute + just to switch to a different tab... This is a major glich. I really hope Microsoft/Zipper will release a patch soon.

I have a PII 333mhz, 64mb RAM, ATI Rage Pro. (equals the minimum requirements stated on the box) I probably need to add memory but still, there is a problem when it's only menus (unless they created 3D accelerated menus w/ tons of textures...)

Fun game, poorly made

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a very fun game, just with some minor system problems (it crashes). First it messed up my sound card, then my video settings. It took about 60 e-mails with a Microsoft support guy who didn't know english very well (when I told him that it messes up my sound card, he thought I was complementing the sound quality) to get the problem fixed.

a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

perfect need a say more. the graphacs are to die for. the missions are complex. and your plane rocks

ONLINE FLIGHT GAMES SHOULD BE LIKE THIS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

ITS NOT TO REAL OR TO FAKE IT IS JUST RIGHT A COMBO OF FUN AND SHOOTING AND ONLINE PLAY. THE SPECS ARE GOOD MY PC RUNS IT WITH NO PROBLEMS BUT I RUN A P3 1GHZ GEFORCE 2 ULTRA 64MB AND IT PLAYS AWESOME THATS ALL I GOT TO SAY

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 idea

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The story/idea behind this game is great. It's like the kind of adventure seen in Indiana Jones. It's just plain white knuckled, yet carefree action. I love it! But...I have a top notch machine and find that the game is SLOW. So far my experience with Microsoft games is always alike: they run too slow. Other games requiring a better computer usually run fine. What gives? Other than that, it deserves 5 stars for originality.

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