Ancient Space announced (Paradox Interactive)

[steve58]

We are in a space game Golden Age...

http://www.ancientspacegame.com/

Paradox Interactive announces Ancient Space, a story-driven sci-fi RTS game in development at CreativeForge Games for release for Windows and OS X this fall. An announcement trailer is online showing off some cinematics and revealing some familiar science fiction actors in the game's cast, including Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers), John Billingsley (Star Trek: Enterprise), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Ron Glass (Firefly), Richard Gunn (Dark Angel), and Dwight Schultz (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: First Contact). Here's what they are revealing about the game at this time:

Ancient Space is a single-player, real-time strategy title that puts the player in command of a fleet conducting a scientific mission on the edge of the known universe, charting what lies beyond in 'The Black Zone.' A rich and compelling story will guide the player as they build and upgrade their fleets and then survive overwhelming odds in deadly strategic missions.

Ancient Space mixes an engrossing single-player campaign story with time-honored RTS gameplay for a suspenseful experience. Mission objectives are many, varying from exploration to stealth, from assault to defense and more.

Ancient Space Features:

New Frontiers, Classic Gameplay: Build, maintain, upgrade, and strategically command a multitude of ships in tactical battles and missions, facing aliens, pirates, and the unknown
An Explosive Space Opera: A compelling story, performed by a stellar cast, follows the player as the fleet tackles questions of humanity and science in an epic single-player campaign
Live with Your Choices: Each mission advances the plot, and introduces new challenges to be met by choosing the right crew and the right upgrades for the job

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/154333/ancient-space-announced

[Anguille]

Excellent.... O0

[undercovergeek]

Ah the space game - they were releasing tiny shots of this whilst teasing people about HOI4 and rune viking blah whatever its called

[sandman2575]

Man, where did this come from ?!  Releasing this fall?  Had no idea.  Sounds kinda "Homeworld-y" with its mix of RTS and story-line campaign.  Looks way more promising than GalCiv3, imo...

[Rayfer]

Hmmm....was that cinematic or actual game play footage?

[GDS_Starfury]

Meh

[RooksBailey]

At first I was excited, but this screenshot makes me think that this is going to have more of a MMO quality to it in the sense of button-mashing auto attacks, etc:



I am also a bit concerned with the hype around the cast of B-list actors - seems like a way of overcompensating for a lack of gameplay.

My attitude is wait and see. 

[Tpek]

Isn't Auto-Attack the opposite of button-mashing? :P

[jomni]

When I read the title, I thought of this...

[Tpek]

^Well he does look like a Centauri (one of the alien races from Babylon 5). :P

[RooksBailey]

Isn't Auto-Attack the opposite of button-mashing? :P

I always thought that when you hit a button in a MMO and your char goes through a pre-scripted attack sequence, that was an button mash auto-attack.  ??



I don't play a lot of MMOs so I could have my terminology messed up.  :)

[jomni]

^Well he does look like a Centauri (one of the alien races from Babylon 5). :P

[Martok]

I'm underwhelmed by the video, but the premise sounds mildly interesting.  Will keep an eye on this one. 

[RooksBailey]

New dev video:

I want to be excited, but I have yet to see anything that really 'wows' me  Seems like Camel 101's Gemini Wars more than anything else.