Paradox Interactive has revealed its new galactic RTS Ancient Space, due to be released for PC and Mac before the end of 2014.
The story-driven RTS is being developed by Creative Forge and features a single-player story that puts gamers in command of a fleet of spaceships exploring the edge of the known universe.
“A rich and compelling story will guide the player as they build and upgrade their fleets, and then survive overwhelming odds in deadly strategic missions,” said Paradox.
Ancient Space is billed as an “engrossing single-player campaign story with time-honored RTS gameplay for a suspenseful experience”, with multiple mission – ranging from exploration to stealth, and assault to defence.
As with most RTS games, Ancient Space will allow you to upgrade and expand your space fleet as you progress through the game.
Game features include:
- Classic Gameplay: Build, maintain, upgrade, and strategically command a multitude of ships in tactical battles and missions, facing aliens, pirates, and the unknown.
- Space Opera: A compelling story, performed by a stellar cast, follows the player as the fleet tackles questions of humanity and science in an epic single-player campaign.
- Live with Your Choices: Each mission advances the plot, and introduces new challenges to be met by choosing the right crew and the right upgrades for the job.
Ancient Space
The game will also feature a star-studded cast, which includes:
- John Billingsley – Star Trek: Enterprise, True Blood;
- Aaron Douglas – Battlestar Galactica;
- Ron Glass – Firefly;
- Richard Gunn – Dark Angel;
- Dina Meyer – Starship Troopers, Star Trek: Nemesis, Saw;
- Dwight Schultz – Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager.
System Requirements
Keen on Ancient Space? Here are the system requirements
Minimum hardware requirements
- CPU – 3.10GHz Intel Core i3-2100
- RAM – 4GB
- GPU – Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 or AMD equivalent.
Recommended hardware requirements
- CPU – 3GHz Intel i5 quad-core or equivalent
- RAM – 8 GB
- GPU – Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 or equivalent.
OS support: Vista 64 bit, Windows 7, Windows 8, MAC OS Mavericks
Watch some epic space battles in the game’s announcement trailer, below.
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The problem with recent “Space” RTS is that we get limited. I look at that screenshot and video and I see a fixed base on a planetoid. I see battles taking place on a flat slice of space (Plane).
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe there wasn’t enough gameplay footage, but I still play Homeworld 1. Sending fleets up and around the top and bottom edges of the area and pincer attacking from above and below while a micro fleet draws off the enemies defenders from the front. And that’s just the basics. Having to defend yourself in every direction including up and down.