Multiplayer airship combat video game
Guns of Icarus Online (also known as Guns of Icarus Alliance) is a steampunk-themed multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by American studio Muse Games. It is a follow-up to "Flight of the Icarus" (formerly known as "Guns of Icarus Classic"), and was released on October 29, 2012. A cooperative, PvE companion game "Guns of Icarus Alliance" was released on March 31, 2017. On December 23, 2011, Muse Games launched a Kickstarter project to raise $10,000 to partially fund the development of "Guns of Icarus Online", and the company subsequently received $35,237 at the close of the bidding on February 21, 2012. Following the completion of their fundraising campaign, Muse Games co-developer Eric Chung announced that "Guns of Icarus Online" would enter closed beta on April 10, 2012.
"Guns of Icarus Online" Version 1.0 officially went online on October 29, 2012. The improved Version 1.1 was first available through Steam on November 20 and online on November 23. In early 2013, Linux support was added. A PlayStation 4 version launched May 1, 2018 with full cross-platform support.
Gameplay.
"Guns of Icarus Online" is a steampunk/dieselpunk, multiplayer, first-person shooter that focuses on airship combat. Each airship is controlled by up to four players, with each member of the crew taking a specific role.
Players can choose three different classes: gunner, engineer or pilot, which allow them access to different kinds of tools. The captain of each ship chooses which weapons the ship uses. There are also several ships available:
After being in development since late 2013, the "Alliance" add-on launched on March 31, 2017. This added several PvE game modes, a faction war gameplay system where players play matches to earn war effort so that their faction can take over or defend pieces of land on a map of the game world, and, at "Alliance"'s launch, it contained four joinable factions and four new playable ships. Two new factions and their respective exclusive ships were progressively added in updates throughout spring and summer in 2017.
These new ships include:
The following two ships were added to "Alliance" after its launch:
Reception.
"Guns of Icarus Online" received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic, where it received an average score of 64 out of 100 based on 7 reviews.
Accolades.
" Guns Of Icarus Alliance" won the award for "Best 3D Graphics" at Intel Level Up 2016.
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