''Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age'' or ''Sea Power'' is an upcoming video game under development by Triassic Games and slated to be published by
MicroProse
MicroProse is an American video game publisher and video game developer, developer founded by Bill Stealey, Sid Meier, and Andy Hollis in 1982. It developed and published numerous games, including starting the ''Civilization (series), Civilizatio ...
. One of the developers was also the former head developer of the Killerfish Games game ''
Cold Waters'' in 2017. It is seen by many to be the spiritual successor to ''
Jane's Fleet Command'' (1999). According to the developers, it is expected to be released in 2023.
Development
Development began back in 2019 with
Unity as the development tool being used. The game was announced in December of that year on the company's Facebook and Twitter pages. All developers are from different countries (Sweden, Germany and Poland respectively).
Gameplay
The game is set in the Cold War between the 1960s and 80s, mainly focusing on Naval Combat between the
NATO and the
Warsaw Pact in the North Atlantic. The game is also slated to include the
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China. It has a total surface area of . It is defined in the west and northwest by the northern ...
and the
Persian Gulf.
According to the developers, the gameplay style will be inspired by
Janes's Fleet Command and
EA's Strike Fleet. The game shares many features with Fleet Command including 3D graphics, real time gameplay, time compression and the inclusion of carrier and land based aircraft.
The game will also use a turn-based style for the strategic map, although improved from their previous game with Killerfish Games, Atlantic Fleet.
References
Cold War video games
Naval video games
Real-time strategy video games
Ship simulation games
Video games developed in Germany
Video games developed in Poland
Video games developed in Sweden
External links
Steam pageTwitter pageFacebook pageYouTube channelOfficial website
See Also
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Cold Waters
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Upcoming video games scheduled for 2023