Multiplayer

While the single player campaign will easily keep your full attention the first time you play through it, the multiplayer will have you spinning the Crimson Skies disc past the initial 12 hours. If you don’t have Xbox Live, then you would be missing out on great online experience. The modes included are as follows:

• Dogfight: classic deathmatch.
  
• Team Dogfight: classic team deathmatch.
  
• Flag Heist: capture the flag.
  
• Keep Away: one artifact, many players. Everyone wants the artifact, and whoever hangs on to it the longest wins.
  
• Team Keep Away: team version of Keep Away.
  
• Wild Chicken: capture the flag, except instead of there being two flags, there’s a chicken. This one’s the most entertaining of all the game types, partly because of that silly chicken that clings on to your wing for dear life as it leaves a trail of feathers for your chasers to follow.

Downloadable content

So far, it’s just the standard multiplayer modes that you’d expect from any good Xbox Live game – and they’re fun! But knowing what Fasa Studios did to extend the online playability of MechAssault, it’s likely that Crimson Skies will get the same treatment of new maps, missions, planes, weapons and game types through content downloads.