THQ Nordic and 3D Realms have just announced a new real-time strategy game, Tempest Rising. Inspired by RTS greats of the 90s and 2000s, Tempest Rising is a classic, base-building real time strategy game set in a modern day alternative history war scenario.
The game features 3 unique factions, each with its own approach to combat and economy and offering a variety of strategies for players of all stripes, maps with neutral structures to contest and neutral populations to contend with, deep and rewarding gameplay that keeps a focus on strategy while rewarding skill, and built-in customization options that allow players to approach the game their way in both single player and multiplayer game modes.
Below you can find its key features, as well as its announcement trailer!
- Classic RTS base building with fast and fluid hard-hitting combat.
- 3 asymmetrical playable factions, each featuring distinct economy and play styles.
- Each faction offers a unique roster of units.
- 2 epic single player campaigns with between-mission cutscenes.
- Skirmish, custom games, and ranked multiplayer matchmaking with Elo rating.
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I like what I’m seeing, great aesthetics and animations.
“Tempest Rising is a new…..”
New. A word you really don’t see much anymore in this garbage industry.
Just grown used to expecting ‘remaster’, ‘remake’, ‘reimagining’, ‘reboot’, ‘reissue’…..
And usually when something claims to be new it then proceeds to claim what it’s “inspired by” (ripping off) or what games it’s a mashup of. I realize it’s hard to be original or innovative anymore when just about everything has already been done but most developers don’t even make the effort or give the pretense that they’re trying.
Another thing that grinds my gears is when half of the trailer is fluff quotes from journos gushing over a game they were paid to gush over instead of showing off gameplay so us paying customers can judge for ourselves if we should care. But I digress.
This trailer did a lot of things right which is why it will be doomed to a lukewarm response by the self-appointed arbiters of this ruined industry, unfortunately.