Airships (video game)

Airships
Main character(s):	Mickey
Main enemy:	Cybusmen
Main setting:	Paris, Pete's World
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC
Developer:	Sequence
Writer:	Joseph Lidster
Release details
Platform:	Online
Genre:	Platformer
Release date:	20 May 2006
Website:	Cybus
Format:	Adobe Flash game
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Airships, later renamed Save Paris and Save Cyber Paris!, was the second game and ninth release exclusively published on the Cybus website on 20 May by the BBC and Sequence to coincide with the broadcast of The Age of Steel. The game's conflict was based off the Preachers' war with the Cybermen in Pete's World.

Plot

Paris is controlled by the Cybermen and it's up to the people of N-Space to rescue civilians while destroying the Cybermen on the road by taking control of an Airship. Among the civilians are scientists, when they are rescued, the airship receives slight repairs, or the shots are more effective or stamina of these decreases. On your mission, you are guided by Mickey Smith.

Civilians are rescued in three stages (or levels), five, then seven, then fifteen. During the final level, flying bombs must be avoided, before the destruction of a building. The EMP or standard shots can destroy it it is written using the EMP. Once finished, a video is launched with Mickey saying: "You did it, you saved Paris. Goodbye!".

Controls

To move the airship, the arrows are needed. To rescue civilians, it must lower the ladder the using the spacebar. It is possible to destroy the cybermen with two ways, either by clicking the cursor in the direction of the Cybermen, firing an energy blast, or in the case of several cybermen use the EMP pulse using the E that destroys all the Cybermen in the are. It is possible to pause the game by pressing P, press H for help.

Cast

• Mickey Smith - Noel Clarke (uncredited)

Worldbuilding

• The controls for the Cybus Airship are available through the Cybus Industries website in Pete's World.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• This game is a reference to the end of TV: The Age of Steel, where Mickey wonders "with all those Cyber factories out there, do you think they'll be one in Paris?". When Jake affirms, Mickey says, "Then, let's go and liberate Paris." Jake is sceptical but Mickey is eager to help out in the parallel Earth.
• GAME: Cyber Assault shows a different account of the liberation of Paris, in the game, Western Europe is Cyberman territory. In Cyber Assault, Base Attacks are used to destroy Emotional Inhibitors, a Preacher is sent to the factory and destroys the emotional inhibitor with his firearm, rather than transmitting the code. It is possible the Cybermen later retook Paris.

Notes

• The games' webpage is titled "Cybus Airship Control Interface".
• The webpage notes that - "You cannot fly the airship without Flash 7".

External links

• Airships at Cybus via the Wayback Machine