Not going to beat across the bush – Jet Lancer, an upcoming aerial arcade shooter by Vladimir Fedyushkin and Nicolai Danielsen – appears an entire lot like Vlambeer’s Luftrausers, solely extra. Big highly effective future jetfighters, swirling dogfights, large robotic bosses and if the teaser trailer beneath is any indication, a thumping soundtrack. This is all tremendous, and Luftrausers was nice and I would like extra of that, however quicker, louder and higher. I’ve had half an eye fixed on the event of this one for some time, however solely now does it have an official title and trailer, which you actually ought to watch beneath.
Much as I liked Luftrausers, it was maybe a bit restricted by its deliberately low decision and zoomed in digicam. Just from the little bit we see within the trailer, the skies in Jet Lancer really feel lots greater, and much more lethal. Missiles (pleasant and enemy alike) swarm in every single place, a giant chunky cranium HUD indicator tells you while you’re in peril and people bosses are simply huge. Giant sky dragons, wobbly-legged robo-tanks and different such bits of sci-fi anime extra. I additionally spot one boss struggle within the trailer towards what appears like a pair of high-tech rival fighters – by no means not cool.
While it doesn’t appear to be your little fighter will rework a lot as you swap in modules, I’m digging the Ace Combat-inspired hangar display. It’s precisely the type of sci-fi jetfighter expertise that I would like. The game additionally guarantees a story-based marketing campaign, suggesting a extra linear development of challenges as an alternative of Luftrauser’s seat-of-your-pants survival twitchiness. It’s clearly an analogous game in lots of respects, however it’s doing its personal factor with the concept, and I need to be enjoying this as quickly as humanly attainable. Until then, I’m simply going to look at that trailer a couple of extra occasions.
There’s no launch date on it but past “2019”, however you may see just a little extra of the game on its Steam and official pages here. The dev’s Twitter feed can be stuffed with little video snippets and animated GIFs. Jet Lancer is being printed by Armor Games Studios.
