This was one of the major defining games that felt NEXT GENERATION to me (even though, it was really just Origin doing Origin things, pushing the limits of PC game tech by writing games that only ran well on machines nobody had yet) https://twitter.com/GameMagPrintAds/status/1356422274799316992
I mean yeah yeah, it had hours of "interactive movie" starring Mark Hamill and some other big names but the game was legit as hell too. I had a Mac though so I only ended playing the cut down console version at home...
The cover art was excellent which is why I RT'd it. Mobygames tells me it was Sam Yeates who painted it, doing an very effective Drew Struzan impression https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,2011/
The Internet tells me that Microsoft actually got Struzan instead of a Struzan-alike to do Crimson Skies
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