Air Buccaneers

[Lord Rich]

Don't know if anyone ever played this, but it was an awesome mod for UT2004. Definitely one of the best games I have ever played, team work in it was just great and there was nothing finer than boarding an enemy battleship solo to wreak havoc with the crew.

Anyway I got pointed to this by a friend, seems that it is going to be redone as an indie game using the Unreal Developer Kit.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/03/famed-victories-of-the-sky-2/

(Video of original Air Buccaneers shown at the link.)

Couple of more videos for the land lubber's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2i4fSPCQsw - so many nostalgic names in that one (I'm even there briefly!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asF5UIcNukY&feature=related

I am naturally quite excited for the remake, even if it is only going to be a better looking version of the mod. I guarantee it will be well worth a try when it comes out.

 

[Sunhawken]

Can you add bots?

 

[Lord Rich]

You could in the original mod, they weren't as good as players but they could fight with a sword if they were on the ground and they could use the cannons and rudder on ships. The only real major thing they couldn't do was defend against incoming fire, that required you to shoot cannonballs and rockets with a sort of grapeshot fired from the musket.

Teams often had to work together with players each taking a role, defender, gunners, loaders and pilot.

 

[gaham1]

Looks amazing....

 

[Taalen]

Always wanted to try it since I first heard about it - probably when the project won (or scored high in any case) in a game development competition for students. But never got around to getting UT2004... so, maybe I'll manage to jump in with the second try.