Tempest Rising tech review: a modern classic RTS built on Unreal Engine 5

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Tempest Rising is a polished, performant and brilliant real-time strategy (RTS) game powered by Unreal Engine 5. That’s a sentence I never really expected to say just a few years ago, but a whole host of contributing elements here make this game fun to play and, thankfully, technically sound. This is not typical multi-platform game that I’d review for DF, but a PC exclusive in a genre that defined the platform’s earliest days. Slipgate Ironworks and 3D Realms have crafted a new entry into that classic genre that lives up to the legacy of its finest works, and I think a big reason for that is due to the incredible single-player focus.

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Editor-in-Chief for Robots Over Dinosaurs Anthony has been gaming since the 1980s. Working adjacent to the gaming industry for the last 20 years, his experience led him to open Robots Over Dinosaurs.

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