Maelstrom RTS PC demo hits the web

PerimeterIn the RTS PC game Maelstrom, the world of the future is in shambles as gigantic corporations, cataclysm survivors, and an alien invasion force collide for control of Earth. Codemasters just put out a demo for you to try at the Maelstrom site, click on demos. Or get it via Fileplanet.

Release date in Europe is September 29, and in the US it’s October, 2006. Here’s the trailer:
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In this savaged world, water has become the most valuable of resources and divided the remaining humans into two factions. Now, they must wage war against the invaders and each other in a desperate struggle for supremacy and survival.

Depending on which of the three factions you choose to fight for, it’s all-out destructive war as the factions battle for control of the entire planet. The mix of strategy and third-person action in this sci-fi epic includes gameplay features such as totally destructible environments, upgradeable transforming units, and weapons of maelstromic destruction.