Crimson Alliance

Crimson Alliance
Crimson Alliance's cover artwork depicting the game's character classes:
(from left to right) Assassin, Mercenary and Wizard.
Developer(s)Certain Affinity
Publisher(s)Microsoft Studios
Producer(s)Tom Potter
Designer(s)Mark Tucker
Platform(s)Xbox 360
ReleaseSeptember 7, 2011[1]
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player, Multi-player

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]

  1. ^ obi1mccarthy (July 18, 2011). "Certification? Nailed it". Crimson Alliance. Certain Affinity. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Crimson Alliance Announced!". Certain Affinity. May 27, 2011. Archived from the original on September 20, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  3. ^ "Official Crimson Alliance Announcement Press". Certain Affinity. May 31, 2011. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  4. ^ Fletcher, JC (September 7, 2011). "PSA: 'Free' Crimson Alliance download isn't the full game". Engadget (Joystiq). Oath Inc. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  5. ^ "Free Crimson Alliance Offer". Xbox.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2011.