When on the correct level, you then have to find the nearest parking spot to where the delivery is to be made, park up and make your way on foot to the delivery point. Although the game doesn’t explain it, there is in fact a very easy and clear-to-view map to show you the direction you need to go to complete the mission. To get higher or lower, you drive your HOVA to points on the highway that work like lifts, taking you where you need to go. This location may be on a different level than the one you are currently on. The storyĪfter collecting the first box you have to deliver, you make your way to the delivery point. The preference is up to the player, however, I found I could see more detail, and found that more helpful, viewing the world from the first-person perspective. There are a number of viewpoint options, including far away and up-close third-person views, and a first-person view. Whilst on foot, you then discover the various things you can interact with such as collecting items, buying food, meeting merchants, and most importantly, talking to NPCs. Driving on the conventional city skyways means your vehicle goes faster, but at any point, you can veer off to explore, however when you do, the HOVA then travels much slower.ĭespite the city being so large, the only areas you can explore properly are those you reach on foot.
The HOVA vehicle is very simplistic with accelerate, brake, left, right, and up and down controls. Driving around the city in your HOVA vehicle, it is only when you have found a parking spot that you can get out and explore the buildings and walkways on foot, in a more traditional third-person view. The first mission brings into focus how you are to traverse this vertical world.
#Cloudpunk first person driving driver#
When you do tear yourself away for a moment and become focussed on what you are supposed to do, you begin the compelling story of Rania, a one-time musician turned delivery driver for a shady firm called Cloudpunk.
You may indeed have a waymarker set to where you are supposed to go, but with so many visually enticing distractions of massive electronic billboards and bright city lights piercing the night sky, the thrill of checking out ‘what is over there?’, pulls you far far away from the mission. Your eyes and ears are assaulted with unfamiliar futuristic sounds and a vertical, rain-soaked cityscape that explores the clouds above down to the sea below. There is no setup, just you inside your HOVA vehicle, being instructed by someone called Control to go to a location and collect a package that you then have to deliver.īefore you start to do that, you pause to drink in the world you have been thrown into. The game starts with very little exposition. Where it succeeds where so many of the far more expensively made games don’t, is that from the moment you begin, it captivates you with its world, narrative, and story, to reel you in and keep you playing. The game is far from perfect, however, being rough around some edges.
Indie developed games often give you that little slice of gaming heaven that no AAA experience can Journey, Aragami and State of Mind spring to mind, and now you can add Cloudpunk to that list.
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