Everyone has regrets. A bad haircut, a messy breakup, a sloppy unit deployment, or even a bad tattoo. Finally you can solve one of those problems with time travel….. no, not the breakup.
Achron is just like any other RTS. There are some tanks, some infantry units, some airborne units… yup, just like any other RTS… except you can send your fracking units forward and backward in time!! Yes, that’s right, the major selling point of this game is the time travel mechanic, and I’m happy to report, it works surprisingly well in the alpha build of the game. You have a few different options at your disposal here. You can go back in the time line, and issue new commands in the past, effectively allowing you to thwart an enemy assault that went poorly for you the first time around. Just be careful – you have to spend chrono energy to issue those commands, and the further back you go, the more chrono energy you’ll have to spend to issue orders. Tried a new plan of attack and still lost the battle? Why not send some reinforcements back in time to help? You can “chronoport” units back in time to lend a hand. All the changes you make to the time line are propagated by time waves. As a wave passes over the present, it brings with it all the effects of the most recent batch of events from the past. Time travel adds a new level of strategy to the RTS genre. Imagine losing a lot of units to a heavy air assault, only to go back in time and destroy the factory that spawned the units that did the damage, or fortifying a location to thwart an attack you know is coming. With a little imagination, and the tools available in Achron, the strategic options are almost endless.
Achron is slated for an early 2011 release, but you can get your hands on the alpha build now by pre-ordering now for $29.99. You can expect more coverage from us as the game hits various milestones, Hmm… I wonder if I can use the alpha build to go forward in time to when the game has released…. assuming I don’t get lost in a temporal anomaly I’ll let you all know how it pans out.
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