The Ship Sails to Steam

Looked good until they started shooting and beating each other like retards. Another generic deathmatch game... on a ship?

I really want this to go well, if only because (a) they're in the UK, (b) they're using Source+Steam, (c) the idea is pretty cool, and (d) i like peas.

Sounds like Hitman for HL2....which is sounds good.

Hmmm....Hitman on a ship...not a bad idea...

So this game is like that assassins game with squirt guns?

For a second I thought this would be some sort of interesting first person adventure game that had you solving a murder mystery by following clues and interviewing suspects for information and such, progressing by your own wits instead of by the games puzzles.

So, for example, the game logic would be different then that of a standard adventure game. It wouldn’t be like “You found the countesses brooch in the bedroom of the debutant, so now there’s a new dialogue branch in which you can ask the debutant about the brooch” sort of thing. The player instead would have to figure these crucial things on his own, and come upon asking the character about it himself – so instead of the option just being available from there on, the player would have a special text box in which he could type keywords into, to ask these plot-advancing questions of different characters. So for example I go to the debutant and instead of just clicking on the “HEY HOW ABOUT THIS HERE BROOCH” option in the list of choices I type in “brooch bedroom” into this little box, and the game knows what I want to ask.

How many players do these guys consider "massive?"

They're blowing it with that trailer - once you check out the site and read up a bit - it sounds really cool. This is the type of game you could introduce to non-gamers quite easily.

The original HL1 mod is still available at http://www.outerlight.com/theship/

There is a few servers and one of them has some players on it usually.

There was this game back in the early 90's for the AMIGA that had you play a detective on a cruiseliner in the 20's-30's.

It utilized 3d graphics but I don't remember what it was called? Anyone knows?

the game play sounds cool, but the level design and textures look no better than an HL1 mod :(

I remember when this came out as a mod.

It was pretty fun, but players who just ran around shooting everybody kinda ruined it, if I remember correctly. Also it was pretty buggy.

I'm betatesting this game, and while I'm not sure if I'm supposed to go into specifics, I can say that it's very original and quite fun. The Outerlight team is very dedicated and pretty inspiring being a small independent studio working on this kind of game as their first title.

Yes, but can you be Jack Dawson and this time push Rose into the freezing ice water to make room on the floating door or whatever?

This looks pretty cool.

Woah! A game that is released well in advance in Europe before the US?

btw, Chris, UK is part of Europe... ;) So the last bit there has a bit of redundancy :P

BTW...
'The Ship' will be released on Valve's Steam network from the 11th of July 2006 and will be available for online purchase and download. You can also pre-order and pre-load the game from Steam a week before release. The game will be released worldwide as a retail product, available in a shop near you, from 15th September 2006 UK and Europe and January 2007 for USA.

For a second I had "Murder On The Mississippi" flashbacks, and that was really cool. I hadn't though about that game in years (decades even).

I wish I could find a PC version of that game; remake, port, whatever. I've looked. No luck ;(

Original C-64 version:
http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D86