July 10, 2008
SEGA Announces Stormrise – A New
Title from The Creative Assembly
From the development team that
brought you the Total War series comes a groundbreaking console RTS game
SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA
Europe Ltd. today announced the development of Stormrise, an innovative real
time strategy console title built specifically for the Xbox 360, the PLAYSTATION
3 and will also be available for Windows based PC. Stormrise marks The Creative
Assembly’s first foray into developing a purpose-built RTS title for console and
is slated to ship in 2009.
Stormrise offers fans of the classic
RTS genre an immersive and dramatic twist while challenging the conscience of
the gamer. Experience the heat of the battlefield by leading your troops from
the front line, instead of the traditional way of controlling the units from a
detached view point. Stormrise also allows units to be commanded in the air,
across rooftops, on the earth’s surface and even underground, this unique idea
of “verticality” introduces multiple layers of gameplay that must be mastered
for strategic advantage. The experience is heightened by a simple yet effective
control system tailored specifically for consoles, which allows easy unit
selection, rapid navigation and precise deployment.
”With Stormrise and its long line of
high caliber RTS titles, our developers at The Creative Assembly are poised to
revolutionize the console RTS arena,” said Sean Ratcliffe, Vice President of
Marketing at SEGA of America Inc. “Using a science fiction-based backdrop for
their first foray into the console RTS genre, The Creative Assembly has a
limitless palate from which to create their next award winning RTS game.”
Set on a bleak and barren earth,
devastated by a catastrophic event centuries ago, Stormrise sees the Echelon and
the Sai battling to survive in a hostile and uninhabitable wasteland. Remnants
of a superior technological people the Echelon survived the event through
self-educed hibernation, while the Sai, a more tribal faction, still exist
having learned to adapt to their surroundings and the new environment. Having
evolved in vastly different ways, the differences between the two factions have
spurred much animosity and hatred between the two races and the future of the
planet is now hanging by a thread…
Stormrise is in development at The
Creative Assembly’s Australia studio and is priming its forces for release in
2009. For more information please visit
http://www.stormrisegame.com.
