Prerelease:Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge/E3 2002 Build

This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge.

This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

The game made its debut at the Los Angeles Convention Center in May 2002, a year before its release. Only a few screenshots and videos remain of this obscure build, with context derived from IGN, Gamespot, and Inside Microsoft's Xbox - The X-Factor.

There are several differences compared to the final game:

The game's build has completely different levels in the prototype, whilst having a linear mission design given to the player instead of a more-open variety.
One of the levels in what eventually became the fifth level (A Dark Night), featured natural obstacles such as waterspouts and tornadoes.
A map is not present in the game's UI. However, a developer of the game revealed a reworked version of the UI (with a map HUD similar to the final version, with a different mechanic such as the perimeter of the map HUD glowing red that signifies that an enemy or target is detected nearby the player's radius).
A bonus weapons HUD was present in the build.
Targets are marked as red arrows instead of brackets.
A primary object HUD was present that would show icons on the right side that represent what objectives the player has to proceed.
The instrumentation of the game sounded slightly different that can be heard from clips of the build.
The game's build contains an early version of the main menu with a completely different background, with the Game Demos menu option not present in the build (in place with another unknown menu).
The game contains a variety hot air balloons in one of the levels of the build.
The game contained a different variety of zeppelins which cannot be found in the final game.
The game featured levels that take place in more locations such as Catalina and a flying casino off the coast of Louisiana, compared to the final build reducing the number of locations to Sea Haven, Arixo and Chicago.