Guns of Icarus

Guns of Icarus

Close your eyes and imagine a future where giant airships Steampunk roam the air guns are old and rusting in abandoned villages flooded with light. Now open them and take the hard truth: You've already imagined something more spectacular than Guns of Icarus can provide. This action game in the third person is history midbattle signs may suggest such a time and place, but the game itself is a redirect with a note that his advice with the whole hand within minutes of starting your first through Thurs. As there is a rudimentary version of the game, you can already play for free in your web browser. The full version downloadable throws in additional weapons, weather effects and patterns of enemy attack (do not let the false promise of extra "levels" on the developer's website fool you), but these additions provide little value.

If you can find three others to join you in Guns of Icarus "online co-op game, you might have some 'fun, but not enough to make this a little' purchase value.

The first game and all the subsequent fighting, however, plays in the same way. You spawn on a blimp faster to the next destination on his trade route. There are six rounds of the ship: a leading one in the back and two on each side. Swarms of planes screaming down on your boat and you have to man these towers that shoot at you bomb squads with bullets.As different parts of your ship is damaged, you must not only deal with buzzing hordes, but also repair the damage before taking a dip ardent Terra Firma. Are your engine damage, move more slowly to your destination, which prolongs the fight. If your property is damaged, you will receive less reward when you finally reach your port of call. These awards are updated armor and weapons more effective than you can use to replace less powerful Gatling guns, where you started.

You may use guns, rocket launchers, and even a Tesla gun that launches a flow of electricity to distant targets. But even with more powerful weapons at your disposal, Guns of Icarus never developed or developing. Each match consists of scampering repair your Zeppelin and other parts of your ship between sessions of the tower personnel. This can be difficult - you need to manage your time and choose wisely to man the turrets right at the right time. But alone, it gets old very quickly. You will encounter different patterns of attack, a pair of opposing airships and various weather effects that affect your visibility, as you move through the countryside, but these changes can not thin compensate for the lack of variation. There is only one airship design so you can run (even if it feels more like floating) on ​​the same low level in every game.

You can enter up to three friends and boredom share, but co-op games are an independent business, without even the minimal growth of offers single-player campaign. It's good to share responsibilities and Gunning repair with others, but ultimately feels almost useless. The game summed up the game and a point total, and a synopsis of each player how many planes shot down and the number of seconds that he or she spent repairing the ship. However, no reward for continuing to win, and not in the game chat. (If you buy the game through Steam, you can use a chat program, if an imperfect solution.) Production values ​​also contribute to the sense of weapons of Icarus is a mere shadow of the game should have. The soundtrack gives it a futuristic texture discordant superposition of horizontal lines that give the game a crude, but very interesting.

The disadvantages would be easier to stomach if Guns of Icarus remained a simple browser game, but the whole enchilada costs $ 8 if you buy from the developer's site and $ 9.99 on Steam. With so many imaginative games from independent developers to choose from, spending so much money on one who harbors no surprise after the first five minutes of play just does not make sense. If you want to support the scene Indie Game development, spend your money on a game with more creative energy and sustainable value.

Finally, coming to a showdown last season, but hardly a highlight, it's just an endless battle in which combatants flooding to inevitably crash and burn.

But the thick texture does not obscure the plain appearance of guns, the effects of fire bad, gross and animations airship design simple.