More free content for Crimson Skies

By Tom Bramwell Published 1 June, 2004

Including places, planes and chickens.

Plug yourself in to Crimson Skies on Xbox Live today and you'll discover a hangar-full of new content ready to wing its way towards you. Microsoft has released three new planes (the Vampire, Firebrand and Hellhound), two new maps (canyon/cave-based Badlands and the night-time ruins-hopping Lost Plateau) and two new gametypes unto the masses this week, and the best bit is that it's all free.

Actually, bollocks to that, the best bit is that it involves chickens. Everybody loves chickens. They are the new camels. Especially when they present you with a full boost recharge, rapid damage recovery and instant secondary weapon reloading, as they do in one of the two new gametypes - Chicken Pox. The idea is to gather the little cluckers and use their peculiar gifts to score two points every time you kill a chicken-less pilot. Intriguing.

The other gametype is called Gunheist, and involves capturing and holding 3 antiaircraft gun emplacements, something Microsoft describes as "a whole new twist" on Capture The Flag. Still, we fancy chicken tonight.

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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 (5) Latest comment 8 years ago

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  • martyngates #1 8 years ago

    yay! the most underpromoted and best xbox live game

    buy it! GAME have it for £24.99 at the moment -bargin

    thanks god games prices are based on sales rather than quality, there's always a lost gem to be found

  • TipTop #2 8 years ago

    Man, I'll download tonight. I love it when a game you loved but moved on from gets new content. Same happened with PGR2 when we had the download last week or so. Fresh legs for great games.

    XBox seems to be rocking these days :)

    Edited by 1 at 01/06/04 @ 13:43

  • prettyboytim #3 8 years ago

    Cool!
    I played these last night. 'Badlands' is a great level, quite a lot like the other desert one, but it also has a cool little underground cave bit as well.

    The three new planes are pretty good as well. It is a bit fustrating though when someone keep trying to join your game who hasn't downloaded all the new content though.

    Ahhhhhh. Crimson Skies. Hadn't played it for months, but it's still a lot of fun.

  • Lutz #4 8 years ago

    Actually this is one game I'm thinking about getting...

    Can you customise the controls???

  • TechnoHippy #5 8 years ago

    Didn't enjoy it, Secret Weapons over Normandy is a much better flying combat game - unfortunetly not playable over live :-(

    C'mon Lucasarts, give me secret weapons with co-op and competitive online modes :-)