Only one fleet sees the sunset
Carrier-launched multiplayer jet combat for arcade fans and simulator pilots alike. Eleven real jets, real weapons, two fleets, one ocean.
XBOXPLAYSTATION| Title | Iron Eagle |
|---|---|
| Developer | SideBrain Interactive |
| Publisher | SideBrain Interactive (self-published) |
| Platforms | PC (Steam). Xbox and PlayStation versions planned. |
| Release | Coming soon |
| Price | To be announced |
| Genre | Multiplayer jet combat: arcade handling, simulator detail |
| Players | Online, up to 20 pilots plus AI wingmen (3v3, 5v5, 10v10) |
| Modes | Fleet Battle, Team Deathmatch |
| Controls | Mouse and keyboard; Xbox and PlayStation controllers |
| Engine | Unity 6 (HDRP), ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS |
| Languages | English |
| Website | ironeagle.sidebraininteractive.com Short links: playironeagle.com · ironeaglegame.com |
| Studio | sidebraininteractive.com |
| Press contact | press@sidebraininteractive.com |
| Steam | [Steam store link: coming soon] |
In development: pre-alpha. Everything here, including screenshots, key art and trailers, comes from the game as it is today. It is work in progress and does not represent the final product.
Two carrier fleets steam toward each other across the Pacific. Up to 20 pilots and their AI wingmen launch off the catapults to fight for the sky, and the first team to sink the other's fleet wins.
Iron Eagle is built for both kinds of pilot. It is quick to pick up with a controller or mouse and keyboard, and deep enough that radar, stealth and real weapons decide who comes home. Every sortie starts on the deck: full throttle fires the catapult, and the ones that go well end on the wire, rearming and refuelling for the next launch.
In Fleet Battle, each side brings a carrier, cruisers, frigates and corvettes, each with its own radar, missiles and close-in guns. Pilots knock out a ship's systems one by one and put it under, while the ship's Phalanx, RAM and Sea Sparrow fight back against incoming jets and missiles. Team Deathmatch strips it back to pilots only.
SideBrain Interactive is the independent studio making Iron Eagle, run by lifelong gamers making the games they want to play. More at sidebraininteractive.com. [studio location, founding year, team size]
From the F-4 Phantom II to the F-22 Raptor and Su-57, each with its own speed, turn, roll, G limit and toughness.
Catapult launches, blast deflectors, tailhook traps on four wires, bolters, and rearm, refuel and repair on your own deck.
Carriers, cruisers, frigates and corvettes with radar, SAMs and CIWS you knock out one by one. Ships sink.
About 36 air-launched weapons, from the AIM-9X and AIM-120D to the AIM-54 Phoenix, Harpoon and JDAM, and each jet's real gun.
Stealth by aspect, the radar horizon, island masking, sea clutter and the Doppler notch. Flares, chaff and jamming.
3v3, 5v5 and 10v10 on dedicated servers. AI wingmen fly real roles and land back aboard to rearm.
A full day and night cycle, volumetric clouds, an open ocean, and thunderstorms with lightning that lights up the fleet.
Every kill replayed from several cameras in slow motion, and every match saved for the replay theater.
1:54The morning of a Fleet Battle, from a quiet dawn on the carrier deck to the moment the fight turns.
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1:34Everything you see, you can do: jets, weapons, carrier ops, Fleet Battle, radar, weather, kill cam and online.
IronEagle_Launch_v2_4K60_ProRes422HQ.mov, IronEagle_Launch_v2_4K60_H264_upload.mp4, IronEagle_Launch_v2_4K60_H265_upload.mp4Captured in the game at 3840 × 2160, unretouched. Click for the 4K file.
Staged and rendered in the game engine, then graded. Each comes clean and, where marked, with the logo.
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