Spielwertung: 1/10
Spielzeit: 38 Minuten
Spieldurchläufe: 1 (Ende, vermutlich...)

Eines der schrecklichsten Spiele, dass man "besitzen" kann. Schwer zu glauben, dass die Entwickler ein sehr erfolgreiches MP-Spiel mit derselben Marke und ähnlichen Mechaniken besitzen, welches sogar 10-Jahre-Jubiläum feiert. Ich könnts nicht beurteilen, da ich es nicht kenne, aber die Bewertungen scheinen sehr positiv zu sein. Dieses "Meisterwerk" hier dagegen ist völlig zurecht auf Steam TIEFROT.

Es gibt keine Story, außer irgendwelche kryptischen Postkarten-Ladebildschirme.

Unsere Aufgabe auf einem fliegenden Schiff, das wir nicht steuern dürfen (oder müssen) besteht lediglich aus eine der 6 Bordkanonen bedienen und andere Schiffe abschießen oder 5 "kritische Punkte" am Schiff zu reparieren. Das ist alles.

Es gibt eine Karte, auf der wir unsere Route festlegen, wobei unterschiedliche Wahlmöglichkeiten entweder "leichte", "mittlere" oder "schwere" Missionen nach sich ziehen. Wählt man die kürzeste, spielt man 3 oder 4 immer gleich ablaufende Runden (nur die Gegner werden mehr), bis auf endlich "am Ziel" angekommen sind und im Endlos-Überlebensmodus "scheitern" dürfen, denn ein "Ende" gibt es dort natürlich nicht, nur eine Punktzahl.

Die Graphik des Spiels ist unterirdisch und natürlich gibt es keine Erklärung zu den Waffen oder den Trefferbildern der Gegner.
Am besten wird das Spiel, wenn es von "leicht" auf "medium" springt. Schon dort erwartet uns völlig unfaires Gegnerverhalten. Diese kommen in derartigen Massen bzw. halten dermaßen viel aus, dass wir gar nicht mehr gewinnen können. Kümmern wir uns ums Schießen, raucht uns das Schiff ab. Reparieren wir eine Stelle, sind sofort alle anderen 4 komplett am Ende. Zeitweise schwirren 30+ Gegner um dich rum, während du nicht zurückschießen kannst. Anders als im MP bist du allein und kannst eben nicht Aufgaben untereinander aufteilen. Das Spiel fühlt sich völlig unmöglich an. Der Spaß ist gleich null, der Frust siedet, es gibt keinerlei Entspannung. Wenigstens ist der ganze Spuk in deutlich unter 1 Stunde vorbei.

Fazit: Hätte man Geld für das Spiel ausgegeben, wäre man SEHR schlecht beraten. Nicht mal 1 € ist es wert. Wer es gratis oder über Bundles bekommt, sollte es nicht installieren. Es gibt keinen Grund. keine Sammelkarten, kein Erlebnis, GAR NICHTS. Reine Zeitverschwendung.

3/10
As much as I love this game's spiritual successor, Guns of Icarus, this game is just s**t. It's buggy to all hell, the gameplay is repetitive and boring, and there's no story. It's got the right idea but goes nowhere with it. I picked this up at $0.50, and even that felt like too much for this unpolished lump of coal. It needs a lot more story, mechanics and variety before it's worth anyone's time, and the team has given up on it, so strongly discourage you from buying it. I highly recommend the multiplayer sequel, however, so go play that.

EDIT: I edited the first sentence to clarify that Guns of Icarus was the successor to this game, not the other way around. The original wording was clear, but some people can't read.

If you buy this game you get an exclusive hat for Guns of Icarus. That's the only reason why I recommend this game. The hat is really fancy.

I have bought this title is on a -90% sale.

This is a single player game in which you are on an airship being attacked by pirate planes. You have to man the guns, fend off the pirates, and carry out repairs as needed. In between missions you can change your ship's loadout. You can earn better guns based on how well you did on the previous mission.

You can sometimes choose which mission to take (some missions are identified as being more difficult than others), but overall the game is short. I beat every mission in about three hours.

Also, the game does not have a definite ending, it just thrusts you into a Survival mode at the end of the campaign where you try and live as long as possible against the pirates. I like my games to have a definite ending, so that was pretty disappointing.

I ran the game on Windows 7 64 bit and encountered no bugs. Graphics were probably good when the game first came out but by 2017's standards they're just passable. The music track was short but synced well with the idea of fighting across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

This is not the best game ever, but it regularly goes on sale for 50 cents, and that's not bad for 3 hours worth of entertainment.

Ok, I'm gonna be brutally honest.

This game is bad. There I said it. I'm not gonna let my love of this game blind me to the point of obsession.

Why is it bad? Because it was obviously built by a team composing of 1-maybe 3 people using Unity, probably at a Game Jam development event. And for that, I give the person(s) behind this all the props in the world. It was built, it was put on Steam and it sold copies. That's more than a bum like me can ever hope for.

But I love this game. I love it for it's faults. Sure, there's some things in the campaign that I would have liked to have been different, but it is what it is, and I'll still play it.

I mean, this is a classic case of a developer putting out their first game.

Look through all of video game history. A lot of developers had TERRIBLE first games, but now they're AA or AAA companies!

Don't sell this game short because it doesn't hold up to AA or AAA standard.

We literally have the birth of the Guns of Icarus series. That cannot be ignored as a massive step. And now Muse Games have moved onto Guns of Icarus and CreaVures.

And sure, people will have bought this game after playing Guns of Icarus, which is probably a slap in the face if you compare the two, but if you go into this game with blank or open mind, then you'll enjoy it for what it is and it'll make you appreicate later games more thoroughly.

This rambled on a bit, but don't hate this game because it's bad. Love it because it's bad.

This game is bad.

The concept is okay. It's like Guns of Icarus.
The problem lay mainly with the fact that the game only lets you play the first level. It's glitchy and simply won't let you interact with your guns in level 2 - and before you think this was a personal problem this was something I found to be the case after watching a video review on youtube as well. The game simply doesn't have anything past level 1 (which is only about 5 minutes long).

The ship you fly in looked like something a 4 year old designed and a 12 year old built. The cannons had some effort in them. The rest of the graphics honestly felt like the maker had no desire to make it a good game. It seriously gave me the "I don't care if it looks bad. I just plan to make a fast buck" impression. These are the graphics you would see on those computer games from the early 90s where 3D is still a bit of a workout. Not today if you're actually expecting people to pay for the game.
Anyone that has played Second Life: You could make the majority of this ship exactly recreated in prim and texture (from scratch) in about 1 minute on SL. It was really that simplistically designed (guns aside).

The animations were about the same. Not that I saw many inside 5 minutes. They felt like someone rushed them out as some free favor they owed the developer.

I started this game more or less expecting a single player mode of Guns of Icarus - a reasonable thing to asume considering when I first got it the game was named "Guns of Icarus" (barely any different than "Guns of Icarus Online"). I was honestly interested to see what they had in mind for a solo adventure. A story where you fight against AI opponents like many single player games. That sounds awesome really since I like GoI.
It didn't have anything like that. Just a blocky albiet fun 5 minute fight against some planes followed by the inability to actually do anything for the rest of the levels.

This game gets an actual 0/10.Possibly the only game I would ever rate so low.

Worth .49 cents. Just get guns of icarus online.

This was the only good game in the Groupees Be Mine Bundle 4 (which included such sterling luminaries as two dead multiplayer-only games and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Revelations 2012). The reason it looks so stodgy is because it was developed by four programmers over four months on a budget I think was around four hundred dollars. Despite the punk rock style development and a campaign that will last you two hours if you take the most circuitous route, giving those pirate bastards what for and then nipping off to fix up the ship before round two of the great punchup in the sky is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fantastic! I haven't tried multiplayer, because I'm expecting it to be dead or full of turds, but Guns of Icarus Online is going to be coming very soon and is something you should keep your eye on.

It seems like a good game but it stops working after the first level. Developers, please fix this.

Incredible gameplay, great co-op with your friends, and not to mention setting the graphics to "Fantastic" will blow your mind. 9/10. This is a must buy.