Flight of the Icarus Reviews

This game's marketing shows multiplayer, I cannot find any way of accessing it if it exists. What is here is an airship that you have to run across on your own repairing, where sometimes your repair progress resets randomly. When you aren't repairing the airship, you are expected to find one of the six turrets on the airship and use it to shoot down the enemies attacking it. Throughout the campaign you unlock weapons or armor based on your performance that you can take into later campaign levels. There are four weapons, each with an upgraded version, that you can unlock up to six instances of to place in the six turret slots on the airship. There is a gattling gun that does a lot of damage at close range, but little outside of that; a cannon that does significant damage, but is slow firing with a slow projectile; the tesla gun that charges to fire a beam at whatever you are aiming at, but has to reload after every shot and only does two cannon shells of damage; and rockets, which I never chose to unlock before I beat the game. While the game is amusing, it is too simple with some irritating bugs that lead to it not really being worth picking up, but it could be a decent diversion if it came free with something else as a look at what came before in Muse's development history.

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.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t even know Guns Of Icarus had a predecessor until I looked on the Wikipedia page earlier this month. This entry displays many characteristics of what I would assume to be inspirations (Laputa: Castle In The Sky, Mad Max, maybe even a little Star Wars or Fifth Element), and I feel that a lot of said inspiration was also lost during the development of the following entries. Then again, I haven’t played any of the Icarus games in over a decade, so maybe I’m just misremembering. The concept and gameplay loop are both solid, but in the end, it really does just feel like a low-budget Guns Of Icarus. It’s got a good soundtrack, although there’s only one song, and the campaign has a decent bit of “content”, but due to the way the campaign actually works, you need to do at least three full playthroughs in order to see it all. Each level is essentially timed survival, but depending on what path you take, you’ll get more/harder enemies and different loot upon level completion. There’s also a bit of lore on each destination in-between levels, which is accompanied by some decent art. The UI is a mess and it lacks basic options such as a sensitivity slider, plus there’s a really weird post-processing filter which makes the entire game look like ass. It’s not bad, but even as a fan of singleplayer games, I don’t see a world in which I would ever choose to play this over either of the sequels. If you’re a fan of the Guns Of Icarus franchise, pick it up on sale for a dollar and see where the series got its roots. If you’ve never even heard of Guns Of Icarus up until this point, give it a pass.

Protect your zeppelin, upgrade or replace your on-board weapons and shoot down as many planes as you can before time runs out or before they destroy your cargo. It's a form of tower defense, but very basic and easy. After each level you have the opportunity to add new weapons or replace existing ones with unlocked or upgraded guns. The graphics look poor and there's practically no sound (the thunder and guns are the only sounds that come to mind actually). I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone. [Rating: 65/100]

I bought this game expecting a sort of singleplayer Guns Of Icarus. Instead I got a boringly repetetive game, that tries to keep you busy by having to manage different tasks under pressure. And fails miserably at that. You can savely ignore two thirds of those tasks, which takes the pressure out of it completely. It becomes a mindnumbingly boring game of repeating the exact same routine over and over and over... The "campaign" consists of several flights over featureless terrain. It lets you chose between several paths at the begining of each flight, which is pointless, as it really doesnt matter which one you take. As such the incentive to replay it, after you finished the whole game in less than an hour, is none whatsoever.

I loved Guns of Icarus Online but this game is no where near as good. I only bought it because I wanted to collect all the games in the series. However, this is expected as it was released in 2010 and was pretty much a little prototype to Guns of Icarus and I didn't expect it to be great. I bought it for less than a dollar so I can't really complain. That being said, I'm curious why the developers kept this on Steam as those who have never played Guns of Icarus Online might think that it is similar to Flight of the Icarus and shun Guns of Icarus Online when it is in fact an amazing game.

They made a game that requires multiple players working together to stand a chance but forgot to make it multiplayer. This is less of a standalone game and more a concept demo for Guns of Icarus Online. I wouldn't have given it a negative review if it weren't for the fact that they are still charging money for this.

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.

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.

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.