Crimson Alliance
Crimson Alliance is a co-op action role-playing game developed by Certain Affinity and published by Microsoft Studios. The game was first announced at RTX 2011 and was available for demo at E3, ComicCon and…
Crimson Alliance is a hack and slash/beat 'em up, released 7 September 2011 on Xbox 360.
What Crimson Alliance is
Crimson Alliance was released in 2011. It is available on Xbox 360 only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Crimson Alliance is a co-op action role-playing game developed by Certain Affinity and published by Microsoft Studios. The game was first announced at RTX 2011 and was available for demo at E3, ComicCon and PAX Prime,[2] with the press release being announced on May 31, 2011.[3] Crimson Alliance was released on September 7, 2011 on Xbox LIVE Arcade for free as a freemium. Player can choose to pay between 800 Microsoft Points for one character class or 1200 Microsoft Points for all three character classes.[4] The game was also offered as a free bonus code download for those who purchased all five of the fourth annual Xbox Live Summer of Arcade titles before August 23, 2011.[5]
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Crimson Alliance holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 39% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Crimson Alliance launched on 7 September 2011, within three weeks of Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.
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