From Strategyinformer.com: "With Etherium, developers Tindalos Interactive want to make a game that RTS fans can jump into and have a blast, without the need to spend hours slogging through a linear campaign mode or mastering multiplayer complexities.
The idea here is simplification. Rather than micro-managing individual special abilities for every one of your units, you'll pick five from a pool of race-specific and universal powers. I didn't get to see each faction in much detail, but the corporate Consortium, zealous Council and alien Galaad will all have their own unique tricks. Earn Command Points in-game through kills, point captures and the like, and you'll be able to select one of these abilities from a bar at the bottom of the screen. These can be utilised by any unit under your command. Forced March, for instance, makes the selected unit move faster for the duration. Useful for getting to those capture points first.".
While it is not a bad game, for the price, there are numerous titles which do Etherium's best elements better, and often with: cleaner language, less stability issues, better maps, and a far more capable A.I.
If you fancy some free RTS this week then now might be the time to give Etherium a look. It's entirely ours to play for nothing at all until next Monday, July 20th. It's also been discounted 50% for the promotion.
Outpost building, resource management, fancy sci-fi units to unleash upon our enemies... the only thing to top that would be giant colossi. Oh wait, it does have giant colossi.
GamingLives takes a look at Tindalos Interactive's real-time and turn-based strategy game.
"Company of Heroes, a game that was released nearly ten years ago, offers a better single played and multiplayer experience, with improved graphics and audio. I’m still playing that today and, unfortunately I probably won’t remember Etherium in ten years’ time."
