The 90s are back, baby: RTS games based on Stargate and Terminator are under development
This is a good time to become a fan of licensed real-time strategy games based on science fiction licenses. At the Game Awards last week, Funcom announced a new RTS based on Dune. Today publisher Slitherine is showing not one but the other two in the pipeline: Terminator: Dark Fate-Resistance and Stargate: Timekeeper .
Stargate: Timekeeper It was first announced in May, but Slitherine showed the gameplay for the first time at Twitch’s “Game of War” event earlier today. Set in the SG-1 universe, Timekeepers is a small-scale tactical game with 14 missions. Commander Eva McCain and her team support the unit to fight the Anubis army. Later in the campaign, they will also help Jaffa Resistance, lead the attack on Moloc, seek an alliance with Unas, and get stuck in a time loop-all of which may sound familiar to SG-1 fans.
As McCain, the player will lead a team of experts composed of humans and others, each of whom has different skills and can use different methods to solve problems. According to Slitherine, the choices you make are important. Stargate: Timekeepers has “multiple potential outcomes.” Although consistent with the nature of the original material, alien technology will allow you and your team to go back in time and try again if something goes wrong.
This is what it looks like. For some reason, it has no audio, but it shows the close-up and personal nature of the game.
Terminator: Dark Fate-ResistanceOn the other hand, it is the display of large-scale strategy games. As the commander of the human army in the unfortunate future, you must lead the resistance army against the leader of the robot army in the timeline of dark fate. But this is not your only problem: the greater threat may come from other human factions, and when you gather power to your banner, you must deal with them. In addition to the single player campaign, Terminator: Dark Fate-Rebellion will also support PvP multiplayer games with up to four players.
The details of this battle are less detailed-it was just announced after all-but Slytherin revealed a trailer for the future of Oklahoma City’s flyover. It does look grim.
Some new screens provide a closer view of the action gameplay:
Slitherine shines on the licensed sci-fi RTS: it is also developing a game based on Starship Troopers, which was announced in 2019.composer Kejello It also appeared in today’s live broadcast to talk about the role of music in the game and show off a little bit of gameplay.
Starship Troopers: Terran Command will be steam March 31. Stargate: Timekeepers and Terminator: Dark Fate-Defiance have no release date, but they are “coming soon.”