Submarine Titans Preview

Ellipse Studios' Submarine Titans is a real-time strategy game, and like other RTS games that came before it, it'll have real-time strategic combat, resource gathering and management, and research and technology trees. In addition, it will take place in the far future. However, unlike any other real-time strategy game, Submarine Titans won't take place on a strange alien planet or in a barren, post-apocalyptic desert - instead, it will take place underwater on the ocean floor.

That's because according to Submarine Titans' story, the entire world has been buried beneath the waves. Apparently, in the mid-21st century, an enormous comet composed entirely of a previously unknown radioactive substance crashes into planet Earth. The crash - and the resulting radioactive fallout - not only eliminates nearly all life on Earth but also wreaks havoc on its climate, actually causing a second ice age. Earth's few survivors are forced to flee beneath the ocean's waves and remain there. Some years later, the second stage of the fallout - massive global warming - takes place. The ice caps thaw and give rise to huge oceans that eventually cover all of Earth's land.

In the meantime, the survivors, tucked away in waterproof structures on the ocean floor, diverge into two groups. One group wants to take control of the world and all its survivors; the other wants to restore political freedom for Earth, as well as restore some sort of ecological balance to the planet itself. As time passes, these two groups become two formal political factions. Those who wish to conquer Earth are known as the White Sharks, and those who want peace are known as the Black Octopi. The two factions are unable to resolve their differences and eventually declare war on each other. Both the White Sharks and the Black Octopi begin mobilizing their respective armies of attack submarines, depth-charge bombers, stealth ships, and more.

Shortly after the war breaks out, the two factions discover that the comet itself was composed of a powerful source of energy called Corium, and each faction scrambles to collect fragments of the comet from the ocean floor to power its army. However, when they approach the remains of the comet itself, both groups are routed by a previously unknown alien race called the Silicons, which had apparently hitched a ride to Earth on the comet. Now each of the three factions must prepare to defeat the other in a fight to liberate - or conquer - the world.