It’s like...umm, well, a futuristic RTS, I guess.
WorldShift is a next-gen cyber-fantasy RTS game which, say developers Black Sea Studios, is designed to be quick and very easy to learn and play. It offers hectic, fierce encounters all around the Earth and a fascinating story uncovering ancient secrets about the true nature of the Shard and the Plague. But also, WorldShift introduces many features new to the genre, like modifiable factions, unquie cooperative multiplayer gameplay, and more...So, let’s have a bit of story, shall we? In the 21st century, shortly after the colonization of our Solar System had begun, a huge dark object appeared beyond the orbit of Pluto. The object, called 'Shard Zero' by the scientists, (cos all scientists in games come up with snazzy names for space objects instead of just numbering them like real scientists do) possessed some kind of a deadly aura, spreading mysterious 'plague' of cosmic scale around itself, twisting and disrupting the very nature of space and life. There was no time for reaction, and all attempts to study the anomaly remained futile. When everyone finally realized the object was moving on a collision course with Earth it was too late. Shard Zero hit Earth and that was the end of civilization. (Should’ve spent more time looking at it rather than giving it a jazzy name, I reckon)
Click for larger imageAnyway, WorldShift is set thousands of years later, when civilization is no more than a fading myth. The remains of Shard Zero still are spreading its Plague, twisting and re-shaping Earth and its nature, sometimes in the course of centuries and sometimes in a matter of hours. Humans developed a new culture and now live in 5 mega-cities, struggling every day for the precious resources they need to survive. The rest of Earth is populated by the Tribes, successors of early humans, that were affected by the Plague.
Click for larger imageIn WorldShift, there are no technology trees featuring hundreds of upgrades; instead, WorldShift allows the players to discover and acquire a vast number of items and powerful relics that they can use to freely change their gameplay and preferred tactics and to surprise their foes. The players will gather items as they fight their opponents and as rewards for completing missions. But to discover the most powerful relics, they must form teams with their most trusted friends and embark on deadly missions where it is difficult to survive and where the real challenges await.
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