WorldShift
WorldShift is a cyber-fantasy RTS game where you discover the mysteries of an object called Shard Zero
WorldShift is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Black Sea Studios, released 1 May 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What WorldShift is
WorldShift is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Black Sea Studios and released in 2008. It was published by Akella. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"In the 21st century, shortly after the colonization of our Solar System had begun, a huge dark object appeared beyond the orbit of Pluto. The object, called ‘Shard Zero’ by the scientists, possessed some kind of a deadly aura, spreading mysterious ‘plague’ of cosmic scale around itself, twisting and disrupting the very nature of space and life. There was no time for reaction, and all attempts to study the anomaly remained futile. When we finally realized the object is moving on a collision course with our planet, it was too late. Shard Zero hit Earth and that was the end of our civilization. WorldShift is set thousands of years later, when our civilization is no more than a fading myth…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
WorldShift holds a critic score of 56 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it launched against
WorldShift launched on 1 May 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Mario Kart Wii and TrackMania United Forever. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Mario Kart Wii, TrackMania United Forever.
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