Tempest Rising: the strategy game successfully succeeds and conquers 57 comments
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Tempest Rising (Technology Test) is a classic real-time strategy game that is heavily based on the premise and design of Command & Conquer. Fans of the classic get a proper restock, reviews reveal the fallow series currently can’t deliver.
The fact that an unlicensed order and conquer is truly created under the direction of Slipgate Ironworks. It would be undertaken to speak of a spiritual successor, can be read at PC Gamer that the imitation is “absolutely shameless” by the two varied fractions on the soundtrack, the cutscenes and the fulfilled game principle as well as an imagination campaign.
Obviously inspired
In particular, the setting in parallels is almost in the eye: after the nuclear war, two factions are fighting for new resources, which, like Anno, then turn out to be harmful to health, but which contains energy. The principle of the game is also adopted: it is important to dismantle “Tempest”, then build the base and the army to put the enemy base in rubble and ashes.
How this happens depends on the faction. GDI and NOD, here GDL and Tempest Dynasty, play considerably different in all areas, can be played and even building construction. Tempest Rising goes beyond the C&C model: for example, with special skills for units or special abilities for both factions from outside the map. Eurogamer also lists the opportunity to upgrade faction and arsenal between missions.
Playfully in new ways
Tempest Rising playfully plays with PC N games, especially at higher difficulty levels, beyond the template. Here, microvision would be more important, although the title, like PC games, is by no means excessively complex. Nevertheless: Tempest Rising rose as “more than a tribute” (PC Games N).
With Mission Design, the title remains classic. The tasks are described as exciting and diverse, but not new. Tempest Rising doesn’t think outside the box like Starcraft 2, he told IGN. The missions are “not incredibly creative, but they motivate until the end” (PC games).
Two things are repeatedly mentioned as weak points: the cutscenes don’t achieve the humorous, slap-in-the-face quality of the model because the real actors are excused, and there’s no good villain of Kane’s caliber. Basically, according to the tenor, Tempest Rising fails to achieve a personality. In addition, the multiplayer options are rudimentary, judges Eurogamer.
Technically, the game shows its sunny side in the TechAstuce tech test. Despite an Unreal 5 engine, the requirements for the hardware remain low, the frame rates, at least from the graphics card part.
Conclusion: a good RTS
Tempest Rising therefore successfully serves as a departure and “is not far from being in the classics” (PC gamer), it is simply the “new order and conqueror who does not want to give us electronic arts” (Eurogamer), but it is also without nostalgia bonus “a perfectly implemented real-time strategy game” (Eurogamer). Fans of the genre can therefore access without hesitation.
Review Overview for Tempest Rising Publication Rating Eurogamer 4/5 Gamestar 76/100 IGN 7/10 PC Gamer 85/100 PC Games 8/10 PC Games N 8/10 Metacitic Press: 80/100
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