April 18, 2006
Maelstrom’s Factions Revealed – The Human Race
Divided and the New Alien Threat
The futuristic RTS from creators of
award-winning Perimeter to deliver unique play mechanics across three distinct
playable factions
Coming late September, exclusively for Windows
PC, Maelstrom is an action strategy game where Hollywood sci-fi meets
groundbreaking RTS gameplay.
Set against the violent ecological meltdown of
Earth, players will be able to unleash a tide of carnage with colossal
transforming robots, crush enemies by raining down fire, level entire mountains
and freeze the oceans.
In this ravaged world, water has become the most
valuable of resources and has divided what remains of mankind in two: the urban
freedom fighting ‘Remnants’ and the technologically advanced ‘Ascension.’ Now,
these two groups must wage war against a new threat, the invasion of a savage
alien race, the Hai-Genti resulting in a desperate struggle for supremacy and
survival.
Click here to see all-new Maelstrom screens.
The Remnants, Ascension and Hai-Genti comprise
Maelstrom’s three playable factions, and each is superbly different in terms of
theme and play strategy:
The Remnants
- Led by ex-US military General James Buchanan,
players can take charge with the heroic Remnants, as they modify their units
on the fly to deal with the situation. - Use stealth to infiltrate enemy lines and
guerrilla tactics to devise lethal traps involving napalm, proximity mines,
bomb cluster chains and devastating nuclear weapons. - Turn enemy units against their masters, as
players hack into and control the Ascension’s ruthless transforming tech, the
Mechamorphs.
The Ascension
- Dominate with the insidious Ascension, headed
by Arlan Khan, as players command the all-powerful Mechmorphs with their
transforming technology. - Fear no one with advanced technology and
shielded units, with their laser weaponry, cryogen rays and orbital weapon
platforms, which strike down death from above. - It’s not just the Ascension’s weaponry that
can transform; if players need to relocate their base or buildings, these too
can be transformed and moved on.
The Hai-Genti
- Attack the human factions and command the full
strike force of the invading Hai-Genti. - Take on an altogether alien strategy and fire
down spores from the skies to grow an army of vicious bloodthirsty beasts. - Launch surprise attacks and tear the humans
limb from limb to feed ravenous spores, the literal hearts of players’
campaigns. - Sacrifice own units to produce even more
vicious and deadly mutated monsters. After all, they’re only fodder for the
cause.
Complete with the ability to terraform landscapes
and transform units, Maelstrom will provide strategy gamers with the power to
harness the forces of nature in the most frantic, destructive, action-packed RTS
game yet.
Based on an original concept by Codemasters and
KDV Games, the Russian team behind the critically acclaimed Perimeter, and
wrapped in a gripping science fiction scenario devised by screenwriter James
Swallow, Maelstrom will launch in late September exclusively for PC. For all the
latest information and to sign up for exclusive faction newsletters, visit
http://www.codemasters.com/maelstrom.
