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Star Citizen has been on many players’ radar since crowd funding began. With nearly $75M raised, the team has been hard at work creating the mosaic of the Star Citizen universe and the disparate pieces that will be knit together to create a whole. Up to now, we have seen individual pieces but according to the latest Letter from the Chairman, that’s about to change as the ‘whole’ will start being revealed.
During last night’s BAFTA ceremony, Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts revealed the target timeline for each of the game’s components to be released. Star Citizen is a four-games-in-one creation that includes a persistent first person universe, a single player campaign, space exploration and combat and an FPS component. If all goes according to plan, Star Citizen should be in final release in 2016.
Roberts Space Industries has released an amazing new trailer for Star Citizen. Called "Imagine", the entire trailer was made with images created using the game’s engine. Check it out and let us know what you think!
It’s no secret that studios tend to use writers as a sort of advertising. It’s nothing malicious, just a subtle focus on the new stuff they would like to get promoted. The relationship is certainly symbiotic because where they get to manage the publicity of their games to some degree, we get to see things a little earlier than most, which allows us to produce articles while the information is relevant.
My feelings on the subject of Star Citizen are shrouded in more shades of grey than the murkiest Seattle skyline. I’m a Golden Ticket holder, Imperator, High Admiral, and very nearly the first writer to report on the game as being a major movement in the gaming community. If I wasn’t the first to point out how it’d shape the future of the industry, I was dang close.
Today Cloud Imperium Founder Chris Roberts wowed audiences at PAX Australia by giving them a glimpse of Star Citizen’s FPS Module. Gameplay footage of the upcoming space sim demonstrated just how the $59 million raised in its crowdfunding effort is being spent.
Since the idea was introduced as a stretch goal, the inclusion of a first person shooter component in Star Citizen has been a somewhat debated topic. There have been legitimate questions about how feasible it would be to add that sort of thing in an already ambitious project, and many have concerns that the attempt might come off feeling cheap or slapped in. We’ve all seen those games where something was just forced in for the extra bullet on the box.
The Star Citizen team will be on hand during tomorrow’s PAX Australia convention to reveal the first information and game play images of the FPS module and, according to press information, a ‘few other surprises’.