Guns of Icarus: Alliance – Head In The Clouds

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">A PS4 review copy of Guns of Icarus Alliance was provided by Muse Games for the purpose of this review&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Guns of Icarus is a first-person air-based combat game including PVP and with the latest release&comma; PVE is now included&period; You control the various crew members all with specific abilities and skills of benefit to the team&period; You will fight your way through some very interesting landscapes to become the finest ship in the skies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Getting started&colon;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Upon launching the game was greeted by a bold and imposing soundtrack bolstering your thoughts of the experience to come&period; I was thrown straight into single player training which showed me how difficult running my own airship would be&period; But it lacked the teaching of any sort of preparation for the big bad multiplayer world&period; The training starts you off with the most difficult class in the game&period; So you really know it all by the second training mission and the rest is just boring&period; By the time I was released into the world&comma; I spent 80&percnt; of my playtime dead&period; The training neglected to mention that there was more than one type of ship&comma; some more powerful than others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-139106 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;02155650&sol;5910c034ae653a117d67e472&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"470" height&equals;"264" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Breaking in your airship&colon;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>After getting to grips with the game&comma; I acquired a new ship and some perks&period; Then I was ready to rise through the ranks&period; I started a game of coop with some randoms and that&&num;8217&semi;s when the games true beauty shone through&period;  As a single player game&comma; this would&&num;8217&semi;ve driven me to madness&period; Once I got talking to an actual human team in a nice easy coop mission it was fun and exciting gameplay&comma; we continued playing through all the missions and grew in skill as a team&period; The team liked my new ship and made me feel special for having it&comma; you better believe I upgraded with the nicest equipment after that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-139107" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;02155808&sol;1560-1-300x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"470" height&equals;"264" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Picking the class for you&colon;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Guns of Icarus features  3 unique classes&comma; Pilot&comma; Engineer&comma; and Gunner&period; Each of these is fairly self-explanatory but deciding which ones for you is rather tough&period; Me personally&comma; after seeing the amount of responsibility allocated to both the pilots and engineers I decided being a lemming style gunner was the job for me&period; Each class has special abilities geared towards making their roles easier such as the pilot being able to speed the ship up&comma; the engineers can sprint around the ship to keep on top of all the equipment&comma; and the gunners can reload the mounted guns faster than the others which were a lot more my play style&period; You can take other items in your class loadouts to help yourself and the team with various effects like quicker cooldowns&comma; speedboosts&comma; and different ammo types&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-139109" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;02160416&sol;guns&lowbar;of&lowbar;icarus&lowbar;crossplay-1-300x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"470" height&equals;"264" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Taking to the skies&colon;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>By the time you hit the 20-hour mark in this game you&&num;8217&semi;re going to have had some highs&comma; an awful lot of lows and a certain level of resentment for every squad you play with for lacking the abilities you want&period; The easy battles become too easy&comma; the hard battles are a struggle but completely do-able&period; You feel like a veteran to the clearly new players&comma; teaching them your own personal tips and tricks&period; Leaving the coop scene and heading into PVP is as hard as the game is going to get as with any multiplayer game&comma; to me you&&num;8217&semi;ll always be playing against someone better than you especially in this game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Conclusion&colon;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Guns of Icarus is a fun and inventive game&comma; But the true fun of the game comes with playing alongside friends&period; To fully implement yourself as part of a crew you need to know who you&&num;8217&semi;re playing alongside and you need to be comfortable communicating to be successful&period; If you enjoy a bit of a challenge&comma; Well thought out landscapes with beautiful vistas creeping up around every corner&comma;  there are lots of moving pieces and every movement leads to action if this appeals to you this will be your sort of game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;