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A Year Of Rain is the upcoming ultimate team real-time strategy game. Choose your faction, team up and take control of a legendary hero who has unique powers and individual talents!

A desolate realm, kept in flux by the steady rhythm of battle; a proving ground for those with great ambition. War is in peoples' blood. A necessity in their struggle for survival and power.

A Year Of Rain is the upcoming ultimate team real-time strategy game. Choose your faction, team up and take control of a legendary hero who has unique powers and individual talents!

Choose one of three rival factions and get immersed in a gameplay mixture of base building, resource gathering, unit recruiting and battling against other players online or in campaign mode against AI. Structures and units can be upgraded in order to enhance efficiency and power. With your carefully assembled army led by a legendary hero, you will be able to fight alongside the noble House of Rupah, the Wild Banners or join the Restless Regiment. A battle without mercy begins.

The team RTS A Year Of Rain combines classic real-time strategy elements with a strong focus on hero units. Both the co-op campaigns and online and offline modes are being designed with a team of two in mind. The classic 2v2 skirmish mode is being developed for competitive matches from the very start. Meanwhile, “Against all Odds“ is an innovation in the genre where two lone heroes face two entire armies, who have full command over units and structures.

Features

• The ultimate Team RTS. Play together across all game modes.
• Ambitious campaign, designed for co-op experience
• A 2v2 skirmish that is truly designed for team-play
• Unique asymmetric 2v2 multiplayer mode “Against All Odds”: Two heroes face two entire armies!
• Unique factions
• Compelling multi-layered story
• Elaborate, stylized art
• Powerful iconic heroes to lead your army
• Soundtrack by award-winning composer Neal Acree

 

[Alexios]

Not bad but... WarCraft 3 itself is coming back. Must have sucked for the team when they heard the news (if they were developing it before that).

Neat that they also have the same style of in-engine cut scenes and all, I love such stuff. Low-fi things trying to be epic and cool. And succeeding.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

If nothing else, this suggests to me that the genre's been dead long enough that the prospect of new games is actually interesting again.

 

[Bradamante3D]

Had you told me these were community-made assets for an open source version of Warcraft III I would have believed you, kinda like OpenArena relates to Quake III.

 

[Fbh]

Looks fun and I like the coop campaign thing.

They did take it a bit far with the visuals though. One thing is being inspired by another franchise and another is looking like some bootleg version of that franchise