Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins
In the space of fifty years, Earth changed from a planet on cusp of a challenging future to a world a breath away from lifelessness and plunged into an apocalyptic time of ecological disaster, global warfare…
Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins is a real time strategy (rts) developed by KD Vision, released 20 February 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins is
Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by KD Vision and released in 2007. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the space of fifty years, Earth changed from a planet on cusp of a challenging future to a world a breath away from lifelessness and plunged into an apocalyptic time of ecological disaster, global warfare and the meltdown of human civilization. This is the time of the Maelstrom. In this ravaged world, the planet's dwindling resources have divided what remains of mankind in two: the urban freedom fighting 'Remnants' and the technologically advanced 'Ascension'. Now they must wage war against a new threat, the invasion of a savage alien race, the Hai-Genti, and each other in a desperate struggle for supremacy and survival. Through the game's missions, take command from different viewpoints…
How it plays
Its themes are warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins launched on 20 February 2007, within three weeks of God of War II, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle and Crackdown. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: God of War II, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle, Crackdown.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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