Savage Skies

I really wanted this game to be good because dragons are cool. I really tried to like it. However, it came up short in so many ways.

The first thing that left a bad impression on me was the music. When the game starts up, it shows a cinematic scene of a red dragon flying through a valley, and a black dragon comes after him. The scene is fine, but the rock 'n' roll music caught me off guard. Maybe it's just me, but rock 'n' roll doesn't exactly fit in with a high fantasy setting. It's anachronistic. As far as rock 'n' roll goes, this music is pretty dull. In fact, I'm having difficulty remembering most of the game's soundtrack. It's rather forgettable.

So this ugly black dragon is pursuing this red dragon through the valley, breathing fireballs at him (or perhaps some sort of poison... a poisonball?). Then the red dragon breathes a gout of napalm on the forest he's flying over, setting the forest ablaze. He flies through the raging forest fire (he's a red...

THE GOOD:
Selection of characters, variety of stages, gameplay and action.

THE BAD:
Two-player split screen makes visibility hard.

SUMMARY:
I absolutely adore this game. Take the dragon-riding action from Drakan and multiply it by fifteen. There are SO MANY different dragons and "fantasy" creatures to choose from; griffins, rocs, undead creatures, flying pigs, winged rats and more! The gameplay is not hard to get used to, and the action is incredible! The only problems I had was that sometimes visibility is a little stilted in some areas of the game such as two-player mode and some of the tunneled areas of the campaigns. If you like air wars, you'll love this game.