Retro-inspired RTS Tempest Rising debuts 20 minutes of multiplayer battling
Last August, THQ Nordic and Slipgate Ironworks – the devs behind Ghostrunner and Graven – introduced their new retro-inspired real-time technique recreation Tempest Rising. It’s an alternate historical past story about three factions who duke it out over a uncommon mineral, the titular Tempest, and we had beforehand seen two of them in a marketing campaign walkthrough. The third faction is simply out there within the recreation’s multiplayer modes, which the group have launched footage of immediately. Catch the 20-minute 1v1 match beneath:
The multiplayer match above has lead recreation designer Brandon Casteel at conflict along with his boss, Slipgate’s CEO Frederik Schreiber. Seems like a wholesome, protected strategy to air office grievances, however the video games tug-of-war technique appears to be like like a bunch of enjoyable too. Schreiber performs because the Global Defence Forces whereas Casteel controls the Tempest Dynasty faction. Each one has a unique economic system, distinctive items, and requires gamers to strategy the battlefield with completely different methods in thoughts.
You begin a multiplayer match with a small group who reacts to your instructions with a deep “off we go” exclamation. They’re primarily helpful for scouting the map and amassing useful resource crates, and whereas pleasant items are away, you may make investments vitality into base-building and harvesting Tempest by means of the sticky crimson vines on the map. Leaving the Tempest vines alone, although, will trigger them to grow to be extra mature and priceless. The whole multiplayer match is full of these strenuous tactical choices with execs and cons on both aspect, which ought to maintain longer matches feeling contemporary.
From Tempest Rising’s announcement, its Command & Conquer inspirations had been as clear because the heavy in-game tire tracks. EA have been comparatively nonchalant a couple of new correct C&C, so followers are in all probability happy they’re getting a brand new IP that’s riffing on gameplay they love.
We’ll want to attend some time longer earlier than we construct, increase, and battle our means by means of Tempest Rising. It’s at the moment concentrating on a 2024 launch, and you may take a look at extra particulars over on Steam.
For now, C&C followers ought to take a look at Jeremy Peel’s interview with the sequence’ co-creator as they dig into how the Gulf War and Apple’s drag-select gave us the long-lasting RTS video games.
