SEGA announces new RTS 'Stormrise' for 2009

by Jem Alexander { Jul 11th 2008 at 8:30AM }

SEGA has announced that a it will be releasing a new game, entitled Stormrise, for the PS3 sometime in 2009. The game promises to be a unique take on the RTS (Real Time Strategy) genre -- which usually doesn't translate well to game consoles. SEGA promises that the controls are being made "specifically for consoles," with gameplay that involves a non-detached form of controlling your units.

In Stormrise, The Creative Assembly are creating a post-apocalyptic RTS set "on a bleak and barren earth". There seems to be a lot of sci-fi race vs. race backstory in there and there's a video to check out on the official site. We'll probably see a little bit more of it at E3.

Tags: sega, stormrise

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

sibbor @ Jul 11th 2008 8:45AM

Sega, please add keyboard and mouse support for this game to and we gamers will have some options if we don't dig the the "console" controls you set up...

Nate @ Jul 11th 2008 9:19AM

+100

jtedesco33 @ Jul 11th 2008 8:45AM

Here's a hint to anyone that is going to make an RTS for the PS3, it can function with a keyboard and mouse! Why will no one use the damn functionality? All of these RTS games control like shit with game pads.

TheSh0wstopper @ Jul 11th 2008 8:48AM

This game is gonna rock! Anyone who plays pc games and knows who Creative Assembly is will prolly agree. I had a bad feeling about Viking and it sucked, but thats what happens when you make games in genres you know nothing about. But hearing that Creative Assembly is making a Console RTS game gives me wet dreams.

-TheSh0wstopper

Phantom @ Jul 11th 2008 9:13AM

The only game I'm hoping for is FFXIII and FFversusXIII , but neither of those even have a guess at a release date yet , so until then I might get some other games , but unless this game has something super special about it I'll get the Tom Clancy RTS instead (I think it's called Endwar)