OXCGN's Stormrise Review Only One Shall Rise….Just Not This One

OXCGN writes: "Another month and another RTS hits the consoles, this time it's Stormrise from The Creative Assembly (the team behind Total War). This one is an RTS game based in the future where humanity pretty much tried to control Global Warming but in typical fashion it all went wrong.

Centuries later and the humans that were left outside during the disaster left to die evolved into a mutant race known as The Sai and the humans in the cryogenic underground facilities known as The Echelon have awoken to reclaim Earth and rebuild it as it once was."

[Godem]

Sounds like there is a good reason I have never heard of this game before..

[Immortal Kaim]

Ouch... I was actually looking forward to this game, might end up being a rental I think :)

[Superfragilistic]

"Ouch!" is exactly what I was thinking. lol

I'll stick to Halo Wars on the console thanks. :)

[XboxOZ360]

Same here, I was really looking forward to it as well. The hype from the developers was great, but It seems like it hasn't delivered where it matters the most, gameplay.

I suppose it could change depending on how one gets used to the controls, especially if they are used to one style of console RTS style, then another developer puts up another way of doing things.

Bit like those used to Resi evil controls, and those new to it but used to other third person shooter who find it completely frustrating, and thus have a poor experience of the game . .

[REALgamer]

I was hoping Halo Wars would be the beginning of great console RTSs, but it looks like unless they use Halo Wars' exact control scheme they're not going to be very successful. =(

[Speed-Racer]

Hmm disappointing score... disappointing game

[gaminoz]

I really wanted these guys to succeed, but it just looked like another Commmand & Conqure meets Halo Wars and its identity didn't grab me.

I'd love a Rome Total War done for consoles. Enough space marines already!!!

[GrathiusXR]

The conept of the control scheme especially the Whip Select is a great feature especially for the RTS as it is different to the select squad give them a number and then by pressing that number you can quick jump to them and such..

But because of how fast your squads continually die in this game as well as the ability for them to just get killed from long distances on the spot and on top of that when your squad gets hit like 5 die at the same time and there is only 1 left..

So by the time you Whip Select either your squads are gone or there is only few guys left and in that split second you whip to them they die...

If it was given some more polish to fix at least half of the issues then it would of been a much less tedious game to sit and play..

As no gamer wants to sit down and get frustrated again constantly for the whole play through..

I'm stuck on a mission that is so annoying.. i build heaps of squads and they die in a matter of seconds.. im talking at least 100 man army dead in seconds...

good 45 minutes on that mission capturing Nodes.. taking my time only to get one of the main characters die in again a few seconds at one point and i had to restart the whole mission..