The Ship - Free this weekend

Bold · Post by **Bold** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:43 am

Steam are running a free weekend for 'The Ship' this weekend. I haven't actually read too much about the game, but the basics are its set on a 1920's cruise ship, and you have to wander around and assassinate other players, without being seen. It sounds quite interesting, and is apparently 'critically acclaimed' so I've set it downloading

Scrunty · Post by **Scrunty** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:10 am

You don't know how big it is do you?

Bold · Post by **Bold** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:15 am

Cant find anything exact, but it claims to need 1.3GB of disk space.. so smaller than that

http://www.theshiponline.com/ wrote:The Ship is a unique multiplayer PC game developed by Outerlight Ltd., created using Valve's Source engine. Set on a series of luxury, art deco cruise ships built by Mr X, this devilish game challenges you to kill or be killed. Once you're on board you're given the name of another passenger whom you must find and secretly murder.Watch out for security unless you want to do some time in jail, take care of yourself and keep looking over your shoulder because somewhere out there is another hunter looking for you!

Liquid · Post by **Liquid** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:52 am

Thanks for the heads up bold , i have preloaded and ready to go.

Bold · Post by **Bold** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:57 am

Should be all set to give it a go tonight

Noon416 · Post by **Noon416** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:56 am

ronwestnz wrote:... 60 secs to game the activates

Late night was it?

I haven't bothered RTFM'ing, but I take it there are AI passengers as well or is the whole population of the ship human players bent on assassinating a certain other human player?

Bold · Post by **Bold** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:09 am

I haven't rtfm'd either, but I gather there are at least AI security guards. If you get caught assassinating anyone you get a trip to jail, which is not good..

It does apparently have an offline mode which is all AI and has a bit of a story line.

Noon416 · Post by **Noon416** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:39 am

Keep us posted Ron, it sounds like a good concept if it catches on.

Noon416 · Post by **Noon416** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:55 am

If the numbers are there, we'll put some thought into the option and see how it weighs up.