Comments on: Cannon Canon: Guns Of Icarus

By: Andrew Mao

Andrew Mao — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:32:10 +0000

I just put up an ABu server at ut2004://140.247.62.101:8777 and I will leave it up indefinitely until we get this community going again! Please play, ask your friends to play, and e-mail me!

Andrew

By: damien

damien — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:21:13 +0000

i’m trying to find someone, anyone, who has played this game.

i suspect i am about to become my own guinea pig in a moment…

By: roryok

roryok — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:31:19 +0000

could be getting ahead of things here but an air buccaneers style game that overcomes any shortcomings this has could be the next project after the RPS game (if the former is successful)

By: Stromko

Stromko — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:56:30 +0000

I’ve tried out Guns of Icarus before. Its campaign system is frankly rather terrible, especially if you haven’t purchased the premium version.

The game play itself isn’t too bad, it plays fast and loose enough … but I really can’t forgive it for my experience. After finishing the tutorial level it gave me two options, one path was Hard and one Normal. I decided I’d go ahead and take the Hard path. Got through it the first time, well enough that I could afford some upgrades. Hooray! Then I find out that both paths after that are for Premium users only– I turned back, and found that the upgrades I earned were gone. Not only that but I failed to successfully make the return journey 11 times. Whether it was just more difficult, or I couldn’t do it without the benefit of beginner’s luck, I have no idea, but I entirely ran out of patience.

The campaign is built on the theme that you’re some sort of freelance sky captain that makes money ferrying goods from place to place, but in fact it is an entirely linear experience. You can’t go back and forth, you can’t go sideways, the only way it will take into account your upgraded ship is if you keep going straight ahead. I’d see that as rather a missed opportunity on making a decent meta-game to prop up the slightly sparse action and presentation.

By: DarkNoghri

DarkNoghri — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:16:47 +0000

Totally missed out on Air Buccaneers last time. I think I was out of town, or some such. Would totally join in, if possible.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:28:40 +0000

Air Bucs was an awesome time. Count me in for playing again… if ever.

By: matte_k

matte_k — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:59:36 +0000

This reminds me a hell of a lot of Project Nomads…

By: oceanclub

oceanclub — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:41:59 +0000

Yes, let’s play! I missed the last MP session and was highly disappointed.

By: Gibius

Gibius — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:22:22 +0000

I still have Air Buccaneers installed. Let’s play it, or summets.

By: Senethro

Senethro — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:08:55 +0000

We should have a 1 year RPS Airbucs reunion.

By: DMJ

DMJ — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:46:58 +0000

Air Buccaneers can’t possibly strike twice. It’s like expecting someone to spontaneously invent Marmite. Again.

By: Army of None

Army of None — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:24:53 +0000

Which is a damn shame, because Air Buccaneers was brilliant. Played it once at a LAN party, was the craziest/most awesome thing… this flash game is interesting, not bad, but it’s no Air Buccaneers.