SEGA Reveals Stormrise

SEGA today announced the development of Stormrise a real time strategy game for the PS3, PC and Xbox 360. Stormrise marks The Creative Assembly’s first foray into developing a console-based RTS title . The game is slated to ship in 2009. Stormrise does things a little differently than most RTS games: you control 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 .According to Sega, 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.

Set on an earth devastated by a catastrophic event centuries ago, Stormrise sees the Echelon and the Sai battle to survive on this hostile and uninhabitable wasteland of a planet. The Echelon survived the event through self-educed hibernation, while the Sai learned to adapt to the new environment. Having evolved in vastly different ways, the differences between the two factions have caused 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 will be released in 2009.