Outlive Preview
We play a nearly-complete build of this strategy game and report with hands-on impressions and screenshots.
Real-time strategy games seem to be making a resurgence in 2001, with Black & White and Warcraft III slated to come out and several other RTS games on the horizon. One such game is Outlive, from Continuum Entertainment and Take 2 Interactive. These days, it takes a lot to distinguish a strategy game from its competitors. Some games opt to try out new features and innovative gameplay. When developers go the innovative route, we get games like Myth and Sacrifice. Of course, developers can also go the complete opposite way and decide to simply clone a proven winner. Judging by the beta we've been playing, it looks like Outlive takes the latter route, but at least it's cloning a blockbuster like Starcraft in its attempts to bring us a new brand of gameplay.
Outlive continues a long-standing trend of the postapocalyptic setting, where Earth is all but doomed, with two factions fighting to see who will survive the impending destruction of Earth. In this case, the planet is woefully overcrowded. The population has exploded, and all of Earth's natural resources have been depleted. The scarcity of resources has given rise to various terrorist factions that have resorted to violence to hoard the last remaining bits of fuel and food. Besieged by revolutionaries and a paucity of natural resources, the governments of the world have decided to unite under one banner. The newly formed World Council then goes on a two-pronged offensive. First, it imposes a form of martial law to eradicate all terrorist factions. Second, it devises a space program called Outlive to comb through the entire solar system looking for mineral resources on planets and moons in the solar system. Even as the operation to quell terrorism rages on, the world government decides that Titan meets all requirements, being rich in all the resources that Earth is lacking. Unfortunately, this moon of Saturn has a toxic atmosphere and a harsh environment, which preclude any human colony from surviving there. So the world government has tasked two competing agencies with developing ways to brave the Titan elements and begin mining the moon. One faction decides to create mutated humans that can survive in the Titan atmosphere, while another faction opts for robots instead. Stunned by the World Council's decision to ravage the human genome and create mutated monstrosities, one prominent terrorist group called the Liberty Army declares war on the World Council. Amidst all this turmoil, with the experiments in both the robotics and mutation teams coming to a close, the game begins.
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