Black Sea Studios Details 'WorldShift'
Cooperative RTS With No Tech Tree
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Black Sea Studios has released more information on their upcoming RTS Worldshift. The all-new RTS has been designed from the beginning to offer quick-play gameplay with no need for thick manuals explaining complex technology trees.
"My feeling is that with a few exceptions we've been playing different re-incarnations of the very same RTS game for a decade!" Vesselin Handjiev, lead designer for WorldShift, told Eurogamer. "WorldShift is different not only on the surface, it's different to the bones."
Along with a cyber-fantasy setting the game will feature two aspects rarely seen in any RTS, modifiable factions and cooperative multiplayer gameplay. Factions will not upgrade in the standard fashion. Instead of technology trees players will find items and relics to unlock new abilities in their troops as the scour the land and defeat their enemies. Players will also control smaller armies than most modern RTSs, a group of 30-50 individuals each with 15 available slots for the interchangeable items.
Features include:
* Fast and furious multiplayer
* Thousands of items and powerful relics to collect
* Use items and relics to build your own tactics
* The best cooperative, player-vs-environment gameplay ever made in RTS game
* Random maps for infinite exploration
* Unique blend of post apocalyptic setting, hi-tech and primitive
* Epic, dangerous missions with great rewards
* 3 playable races
"My feeling is that with a few exceptions we've been playing different re-incarnations of the very same RTS game for a decade!" Vesselin Handjiev, lead designer for WorldShift, told Eurogamer. "WorldShift is different not only on the surface, it's different to the bones."
Along with a cyber-fantasy setting the game will feature two aspects rarely seen in any RTS, modifiable factions and cooperative multiplayer gameplay. Factions will not upgrade in the standard fashion. Instead of technology trees players will find items and relics to unlock new abilities in their troops as the scour the land and defeat their enemies. Players will also control smaller armies than most modern RTSs, a group of 30-50 individuals each with 15 available slots for the interchangeable items.
Features include:
* Fast and furious multiplayer
* Thousands of items and powerful relics to collect
* Use items and relics to build your own tactics
* The best cooperative, player-vs-environment gameplay ever made in RTS game
* Random maps for infinite exploration
* Unique blend of post apocalyptic setting, hi-tech and primitive
* Epic, dangerous missions with great rewards
* 3 playable races
