Crimson Skies: High Road to Live

By Tom Bramwell Published 22 April, 2003

Tally ho pip pip and Bernard's your uncle

As a number of you have spotted over the Easter weekend, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge will feature Xbox Live support for up to 16 players, with a range of game modes which sound new but probably aren't. Dogfight and Team Dogfight obviously aren't fooling anyone, and Flag Heist sounds familiar too, but as for Wild Chicken, Keep Away and Team Keep Away, we're not so certain. However, even if they aren't anything new, the idea of proper online aerial combat is still very enticing - as is the promise of downloadable maps and planes post-release.

Adding to the gameplay will be the possibility of jumping from planes into stationary anti-aircraft guns for added firepower, which sounds ludicrous but entertaining. And of course, this is hardly DC9-30 Professional (with apologies to Just Flight), so you'll be able to pick it up and go even if you can't tell a wing from an undercarriage.

Crimson Skies is due out at the end of the year in the US, but hasn't made it onto Microsoft's European schedules yet.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (4) Latest comment 9 years ago

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  • st3ph3n #1 9 years ago

    Excellent, just in time for my Broadband hopefully appearing.

    I assume that Keep Away is basically Capture the flag without bases, and your 'craft more than likely slows down when you get the item to keep away from people.

    Wild Chicken, no idea, but hopefully it involves chickens going wild, perhaps in a headless fashion.

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #2 9 years ago

    Yes. The colour of the sky is going to change.

  • pjmaybe #3 9 years ago

    The original was one of THE most played multiplayer PC titles in this office for a long while (before BF1942 came along) - So a LIVE-enabled version can only be a good thing. I hope it's significantly changed from the early footage I've seen of it though. It looked like they'd turned it into a shooter along similar lines to Rebel Assault II...And we don't want that, do we?

    Peej

  • Cyhwuhx #4 9 years ago

    .::: "due out at the end of the year in the US" (O_o)

    Is it me or is that still waaaaaaay off? I thought it was supposed to be released this summer... :S Hmm, probably a HALO2 substitute then...