Dan Abnett Climbs Aboard Dreadnought For Massive Ship Battles
September 2, 2014 by dracs
What's better than ship battles in space? Even bigger ships of course! It looks like an upcoming video game is going to deliver just that as Dreadnought gets spotted at this year's Pax Prime.
In an interview with Polaris, the game's producer Mark Liebold told us all that Dreadnought is going to be a game of massive ship based combat. We're not talking small fighters here, we're talking massive things that barely register jets as a blip on the radar.
The game will feature a multiplayer mode, where teams pilot a number of different ship types in epic confrontations, as well as a single player mode which will feature an episodic story written by none other than Dan Abnett.
What with his work for Warhammer 40k, there is no doubt that Abnett knows how to create an epic setting for a game, which should suit Dreadnought well. If that wasn't cool enough, they are apparently taking Sid Meier's Pirates as one of the sources of inspiration for the game. If you have not played Sid Meier's Pirates, what are you reading this for? Go out and find it!
Everything I see about this game makes me really excited for it. I love massive ship battles, of the sort you might expect to see in games like Battlefleet Gothic and Dystopian Wars, and the fact that I will soon have the opportunity to pilot these sorts of massive craft has me chomping at the bit to give this game a go.
How do you think Dreadnought is looking?
I’ve signed up for the beta. Looking forward to seeing the world Dan Abnett creates.
That looks fiiiine!, i can’t wait for that, has to be good, with a story world from Dan Abnett
I’ve signed up as well, soon as I saw the teaser trailer!
Not abnett again…
what the bleep has this to do with spaceship battles???? big spaceships hovering just above a planet’s surface, firing at each other at a few ship’s lengths distance????
i thought the same, the idea is good, but the setting from what i have seen so far is poor, i’ll just wait for the re-mastered edition of homeworld and homeworld 2 thanks 🙂
My first thought was actually Battlestations: Midway in a sci-fi setting or a cleaner Last Exile
Loved the video but theirs are several space games out homeworld 1 / 2 as @dunham99 said also x2 /x3 with playable Destroyers / Carriers plus ELITE with who knows what type of ship could be in the final game?
I agree with what a lot of people say on this post. The ships don’t seem to be moving around too much, but I think they’re in atmosphere for two possible reasons? One, people are less likely to fight over a cubic parsec of empty space than trying to land troops on a planet, take out an enemy port, etc. Also, having a background like this may offer more opportunity for rich graphics than even the best starfield? And I agree, a good large-scale space battle game (especially one in which you can design your own ship) would be epic… Read more »