"Tempest Rising": "Command & Conquer" in 2025

"Tempest Rising" is a worthy representative of an almost extinct genre

Tempest Rising wants to bring back real-time strategy in the style of Command & Conquer and takes up many traditions of Westwood's classic RTS series - packed into a modern outfit of course. We have played the two story campaigns of the full version and the Skirmish and Multiplayer modes of Tempest Rising for the test video and have discovered many strengths. However, there are also a few problems and we also go into the test video of course. Te…

Tempest Rising is a bow in front of the classic real-time strategy in the style of Command & Conquer. The game offers jagged, explosive battles on an apocalyptic earth and is fired by the Unreal Engine 5. We invite you to the technology test!

Do you know titles like Warpaws, Combustion, or Kingpin Reloaded? Neither do I. You probably recognize more titles like Ancestors Legacy and Ghostrunner from the Danish Slipgate Ironworks, the company behind the neoclassical RTS Tempest Rising game. Tempest Rising is a tribute to the classic RTS, Command & Conquer, and by "homenage" I mean an extremely obvious and unsubtle reference and source of inspiration. They have not looked at anyone else’…

I don't know if we will ever see a new command & conquer from Electronic Arts again. Considering what was delivered with Command & Conquer 4, I'm not even sure if I want to. Then I'd rather remaster the good classics. But the gap with a modern C&C fills quite well. For example, Tempest Rising. Grob says it plays like Command & Conquer. It feels like that. It just sounds like that. It just means different. But it doesn't matter, because it's a re…