The developers of Tempest Rising say they expect, say, Inspire EA is releasing a new Command & Conquer game after a decade of waiting. There are clear parallels between Tempest Rising-Command and Conquer, and the upcoming real-time strategy game obviously takes inspiration from the classic series first developed by Westwood and now owned by EA. Speaking to PCGamesN at Gamescom, Slipgate discussed his love for C&C and how he hopes to join games like Age of Empires 4 at the forefront of the RTS revival.
Several members of the Tempest Rising development team have long histories of working with Command and Conquer, including the credits of C&C fansite CNCNZ.com, one of the largest C&C community sites since late the 1900s and 90s, with C&C. a detailed RTS wiki and blog, Wayward Strategy (maintained by Tempest Rising Lead Designer Brandon Casteel). So it’s safe to say they’re fans of the series, but after ten years with no new C&C releases except for the mobile spinoff Command and Conquer: Rivals, they’ve remained unmoved.
I questioned about the similarities with the EA series, the answer is remplie d’espoir: “Honnêtement, if it means that EA – excusez mon français – se lève le cul et fait du nouveau jeu Command & Conquer ce qu’il devrait être, I completely agree. for this. Tempest Rising’s closer camera angles give the game a more personal feel, but perhaps more Warcraft 3 than C&C. Given how similar the game is to EA’s classic series, it seems like a deliberate choice. There’s even a population cap, though developer Mateo Vekovich assures us you’ll never have to hit it.
The team hopes to bring their story to the genre, noting that many of them’s years of integration into the C&C community means they “know what skirmishes players are looking for in a game.” The team mentions in particular the presence of a large number of cards, the possibility of playing against the AI or with friends in cooperative games, as well as multiplayer games “that can go on for many hours.” There are also plenty of nods to the competitive side, saying that the positive feedback is coming from veterans of the competitive RTS scene who are expected to compete in exhibition matches.
Vekovich says that Slipgate hopes to be “at the forefront of the RTS renaissance, much like [the game’s publisher] 3D Realms has been at the forefront of the boomer renaissance. So, for the second time in a row, we are pioneering something. When asked how the team feels about what Microsoft has achieved in the genre with Age of Empires 4 2021, Vekovich replied, “I haven’t played much AoE IV, but I’ve played their previous games with the definitive edition – they revived the old quality of life games that really brought RTS back into the mainstream.”
However, Slipgate does not see this as a threat to his audience; rather, he sees the success of Age of Empires IV as proof that “RTS is not only in demand, it’s also commercially viable, so we’re hoping we don’t just have 20 people to play it!” Once again, the team stresses that it is made up above all of fans of the genre. “As real-time strategy gamers, we’re really glad there’s something we can replay instead of just dusting off old CDs and trying to get them to work with Windows 10.”
Tempest Rising is available on Steam with an estimated release window of 2023. In the meantime, check out the best strategy games on PC and more to keep your management brain on track.
Additional reporting by Richard Scott-Jones.
Source : PC Gamesn
