Shattered Suns
Publisher: Activision Inc.
Developer: Clear Crown Studios
Category: Strategy
Release Dates
N Amer - 05/30/2008
News
Shattered Suns To Release on May 30, 2008
The launch date for Shattered Suns, a sci fi RTS game for PCs, has moved from first quarter of 2008 to May 30, 2008, allowing time for a more extensive beta testing period.
Early Bonus Edition of Shattered Suns Now Available
Clear Crown Studios today announced the launch of an Early Bonus Edition for their upcoming science fiction PC game, Shattered Suns
Shattered Suns To Release in Q1 of 2008
Clear Crown Studios today announced that the official release date for Shattered Suns
Shattered Suns Beta Available July 6
The beta release will give fans an opportunity to try a pre-release version of the game for free before its official retail release on October 5, 2007
Description
Shattered Suns delivers a "broader experience" for RTS fans by introducing five unique features, including three-dimensional battles, a moving battlefield, player-designed units, unique economic challenges, and an interactive campaign.
As a science fiction game set in space, Shattered Suns features dramatic battles between warring space ships that take place in all three dimensions of space. Players command their space ships to fly to any point in three-dimensional space with only one or two mouse clicks. By literally giving players a whole new dimension of game play, players can execute interesting new strategies and tactics, such as ambushing the enemy from above or assaulting an enemy from every possible angle.
Terrain is often a critical component of any good military strategy, and adding a third dimension to the battlefield's terrain is not the only feature Shattered Suns has to offer. The battlefield, composed of space stations orbiting moons and planets, which in turn orbit a star, is constantly in flux. As planets and moons move along their orbits, space stations that were once far apart draw nearer to each other, and others that were once nearby grow farther apart. A moving battlefield creates many new strategic challenges that will add new spice to the RTS genre for even the most experienced players. Assaults must be timed based on the alignment of planets. Invasions that take too much time will find their reinforcements dry up as the stations launching reinforcements get further and further from the enemy position being invaded. Once-remote outposts may suddenly find themselves coming under heavy fire from enemy forces on a planet that has just come within range. Poorly defended planets protected by heavily fortified planets will soon find themselves without defenses as the two planets grow ever farther apart.
