Platform: PC
Blood, Crude Humor, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence
THE SHIP
Developer: Outerlight LLC
Winner of IGN's 2006 Most Innovative Design Award One of Firing Squad's Top 5 Games of 2006!
The Ship blends traditional first and third person gameplay with a Sims-style day-to-day needs system including food, sleep and social interaction. An intriguing game featuring exploration, investigation, survival, stealth, and murder, The Ship is set on beautifully crafted, luxury art deco ships with highly polished interactive environments.
The crux of The Ship's gameplay is "the Hunt," a nefarious "kill or be killed" game engineered by your "benefactor," the mysterious Mr. X. Each player is given the name of one of the other contestants on board and must hunt them down and kill them with any weapon they can find. Depending on the game mode, the winner is either the last hunter alive or the one with the most money in his bank account.
In order to be a successful hunter, it will be necessary for players to know their way around all of the liners, each of which has its own secrets. Among such secret features are extra weapons, hidden rooms, passages and tunnels, "extra special" ways of murdering foes, and environmental traps.
Features
- Single player arcade, tutorial and story modes
- Online multiplayer gaming with up to 32 players
- Extensive selection of murder objects and methods
- A.I. passenger and crew characters
- The only game where you can laugh at your own demise!
The Ship in the News:
- The Escapist's interview with The Ship designer Simon Hill
- "If my words carry any weight whatsoever, then please take my advice and give The Ship a try. The more of you who do, the more fun we'll all have, and the better a chance there is that the developers will continue to make games like this that break new ground. Score: 8.9 out of 10." WorthPlaying