By Jim Rossignol on May 18th, 2012 at 5:00 pm.
No, not The Cloud as in the internet, but actual clouds. Actual imaginary game clouds. Although it’s also an online game, so I suppose both interpretations are true. Guns Of Icarus is a massively multiplayer game of airships, you see, and the footage below is straight from Muse Games’ beta testing moments, complete with the player voice-comms captured for illustrative hooting. In it the airships batter each other with big steampunky guns, and watching them come crashing out of the sky is a joyous thing. The game is currently in closed beta, and you can sign up over on the website.
18/05/2012 at 17:26 Beef says:
That’s two balloon-fighting games currently in beta. Fuck yeah!
18/05/2012 at 17:32 oceanclub says:
Is that perhaps one too many? So far I’m disappointed there aren’t more playing Air Buccaneers HD. The few times I’ve jumped into a game, the most populated server had 4-6 people.
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18/05/2012 at 17:33 mickygor says:
I was in the second beta weekend – it’s an incredibly fun game! Very glad I backed it.
18/05/2012 at 17:37 MythArcana says:
Holy leaping cows! Now we have another contender for our daily balloon fighter column!
18/05/2012 at 18:35 Mr. Floppyknickers says:
All this messing about with derigibiles! Do it proper, let’s get a crimson skies sequel made damit! Prop planes of exotic design, Zeppelins armed to the teeth, a delightful romanticized 1940′s style backdrop with thrilling heroics and piracy!
18/05/2012 at 18:40 westyfield says:
Oh wow, the scenery really is quite something. The rusting battleships and torn-up hulls make for some mighty fine post-apocalypse eye-candy.
18/05/2012 at 19:29 miiwwqq says:
http://cdd.me/1sw
19/05/2012 at 06:42 savagerose says:
There’s something attractive and epic about controlling a large vessel from the perspective (and controls) of a crewmember rather than from a third-person you-are-the-ship perspective.
Have some nice memories of a MUD (think it was acronymed SC?) that did that for spaceships; it just felt more real than flying a spaceship in something like EVE, where little details like locking your spaceship door get lost in the bigger picture.
So color me curious about these immersive airship games!
20/05/2012 at 05:14 JBantha says:
Tell Nathan Zachary send you!