"Crimson Skies" is a 2000-release arcade style flight sim from Microsoft and Zipper Interactive. The demo was fun and the game itself has a lot going for it. The game takes place in an alternate Dis-United States. "Crimson Skies" alters history and sets up its story line by having the US broken up into numerous independent regions after the stock market crash of 1929. Ground commerce comes to a halt between many of the feuding regions so air traffic became the standard means of transportation and trade. You play a good-guy pirate during these times, battling other pirates, no-good corporations and other governments in the best tradition of the old movie serial. You could say that "Crimson Skies" is a cross between Indiana Jones and The Great Waldo Pepper!