Thaddeus Sivana is DC’s ‘ Shazam’), Liam Cunningham (Ser Davos Seaworth in ‘ Game of Thrones’), Andy Serkis (Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies) and more.
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The single player campaign will feature an all star cast of Hollywood actors including Gary Oldman (best known for his role as Commissioner James Gordon in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy), Gillian Anderson (FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in ‘The X-Files’ TV series), Mark Strong (Dr. The plotline of Squadron 42 will follow an elite military unit of the United Empire of Earth Navy, and will reportedly feature branching choice paths that will affect the Multiplayer persistent universe as well. The developers describe Squadron 42 as a “spiritual successor” to Origin Systems’ Wing Commander franchise, which was also created by ‘Star Citizen’ creator Chris Roberts. Besides an entire galaxy to explore, ‘Star Citizen’ will also have a dedicated narrative focused Singleplayer campaign known as Squadron 42. Other galactic fixtures such as space stations and asteroids were also added in later updates.īut wait, there’s more. The Universe module even allows players to navigate freely around one planet, seven moons, one planetoid and a gas giant. The game’s mammoth scope and ambition has seen it adopt a modular approach to its various gameplay modes.ĭuring the early stages of development, the game featured three distinct modules – the Hangar Module, which allowed players to view and modify various spaceships inside a hanger the Arena Commander mode, which demonstrated the game’s ship combat mechanics against computer controlled AI or other real players, as well as spaceship racing and the Star Marine mode, which showed off the game’s First Person combat and gunplay mechanics in classic multiplayer FPS modes such as Capture and Hold, Elimination and Last Man Standing.Įventually, all three of these modules were combined into the Universe module, a persistent universe that combines all the aforementioned modules into a singular Multiplayer platform. It is hard to pigeonhole ‘Star Citizen’ into a single video game genre but at its essence, it is a Multiplayer space combat and trading game with First Person Shooter (FPS) elements. Read on to find out everything we know about ‘Star Citizen’. Of course, that is assuming that the game ever does get released after over 7 years and counting in development hell.
If Cloud imperium manage to deliver on their promises, it could well be the most ambitious video game project of all time. However, if there is one game that can justify those kinds of development costs, it is ‘Star Citizen’.
The hype is not slowing down either, with recent reports indicating that developer Cloud Imperium Games raised $9 million in funding last November alone.