#Worldshift 2 full

Games seemed to get prettier, World War II became World War III, and most became so complex and full of conditional rules that it now takes a serious effort to learn them before you can start having fun.Įven I haven't played some of the major releases because I didn't want to learn another tech-tree or bonus scheme. So, thank you for asking! First off, when we began outlining the concept of WorldShift two years ago, we asked ourselves what was happening with the RTS genre. Lots of details will be covered on the game's website in time, as it's an area that needs a lot of explaining. Well, this and the co-operative multiplayer features are the essence of WorldShift. So, with our interested suitably piqued, we journeyed into the heart of differentiation to talk to lead designer Vesselin Handjiev about the game. Mix all that into a sci-fi setting with an almost exclusive multiplayer focus revolving around community features and co-operative gameplay, and Black Sea certainly promises something interesting. You'll control tens rather than thousands, and customisation will come in the form of relics and items placed in limited Ability Grid slots to boost your effectiveness - swapping and changing to freshen your tactics or replace old pieces. Unlike its first, celebrated outing Knights of Honor, WorldShift won't clog your fragile brain with expansive tech-trees and unit upgrades it simply wants to drag you straight into the action. Which is why Bulgarian developer Black Sea Studios came up with a fast-paced and action-orientated RTS when it sat down to think about its next big project. But some observers accuse it of growing rather stale, relying too heavily on the same tried and tested mechanics time and again. It's a well established and hotly contested genre, and you're tall. Evolution.If someone asked you to name a real-time strategy game on PC, you could probably reel off a list as long as your arm. If the poor gamer has to spend hours understanding the wild concept behind complex proto-fusion-neural-aqua-separation weapons in order to enjoy the game, then no thanks! Fat men with guns for arms. I believe science-fiction settings can be used more often, but please keep it simple. Clarke wrote in Profiles of the Future that, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' It's a quote that I adore. But sci-fi doesn't have to mean lasers and UFOs.

You know, all those huge alien tripods looking like giant mechanical spiders burning the brave Earthling soldiers with their lasers, etc. On the other hand, it may sound a little bold, but I would say that there certainly is something like a standard sci-fi stereotype that very few dare to go beyond. I can't really say if there are too few or too many games set in a sci-fi world. Things fell into place very naturally after that. For a moment we just envisioned a picture where instead of those temples, we'd have remains of today's civilisation covered by wild jungles and distorted by a mysterious plague of cosmic scale. I believe such temples exist in Thailand, Cambodia, and other South-East Asian countries. Have you seen those amazing pictures of ancient Asian temples engulfed by jungles? They're the kind of places where guys like Indiana Jones would go. By that time our civilisation is just a fading myth that no one believes in any more. Actually, only the background story starts in the 21st century the action happens thousands of years later.

Worldshift 2