You sit there seeing a body of water slowly come closer and closer, you start to make barrier but it comes so fast that you can't stop it and have to pull your army back. This is what makes Maelstrom a really cool idea of a game, it lets you control water and earth to bring some really cool rts elements in the game. The game has three races Remnants, Ascension, and Aliens (not original but to the point), each fighting in their very own way but not in units. All the units in the game fight the same way and they make look totally different, they are just blasting each other, the way the play differently is that the aliens can flood a map polluted water, which heals your guys but damages other guys. This is really cool idea because it bring a new way of fighting by just slowly flooding the map and making it so the other guy can't go anywhere. The remnants cool trick is two use the earth as its barrier you can make gully's or small hills to divert the water into some place else which is cool to do and also can act like walls. Its amazing to be having the lead in a battle then water start coming in and you have to fall back and hide behind wall knowing an army could break through or water could come washing over. The ascension can freeze water to hold it off or make bridges which is cool but I haven't been playing as them that much.
I think the idea of the game is awesome, I can imagine in a multiplayer map with 3 guys each one of the races. The alien guys tries flooding the map and slowly moving out, but the remnant guy suspecting this has made barriers which direct the water into the ascension base, who is able to freeze the water and come marching into the remnants base. It makes such a cool idea plus the races are cool and you get 3rd person view with some.
With all this praise does come some let downs, the ai is that smart, I was flooding the whole map and they did nothing but try and attack and be destroyed. The third person view does feel a bit tacked on and makes for a cool thing but isn't as cool as rise and fall's 3rd person. The thing that gets me most is the sound, its a bit to quiet, for some reason they decided that you have to zoom in to their noses to really hear anything from your units, which isn't all that bad but still takes away from the feel.. The game has a few other minor flaws but those are really all that important. The game is a really cool idea, and just plain fun to use but its got an unpolished feel to it. If you have some cash and want to buy something new and fun, but be warned it does have its flaws.
I think the idea of the game is awesome, I can imagine in a multiplayer map with 3 guys each one of the races. The alien guys tries flooding the map and slowly moving out, but the remnant guy suspecting this has made barriers which direct the water into the ascension base, who is able to freeze the water and come marching into the remnants base. It makes such a cool idea plus the races are cool and you get 3rd person view with some.
With all this praise does come some let downs, the ai is that smart, I was flooding the whole map and they did nothing but try and attack and be destroyed. The third person view does feel a bit tacked on and makes for a cool thing but isn't as cool as rise and fall's 3rd person. The thing that gets me most is the sound, its a bit to quiet, for some reason they decided that you have to zoom in to their noses to really hear anything from your units, which isn't all that bad but still takes away from the feel.. The game has a few other minor flaws but those are really all that important. The game is a really cool idea, and just plain fun to use but its got an unpolished feel to it. If you have some cash and want to buy something new and fun, but be warned it does have its flaws.
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