Maelstrom is a real-time strategy game developed by KD-Vision in Russia and
published by Codemasters.
It has a post-apocalyptic setting with three factions and a script by Sci-Fi
author James Swallow. The plot involves a war between two human factions
fighting for survival in the wake of a meteor impact, ecological disaster,
and nuclear holocaust, the two factions fighting over the last remaining
drinkable water. One is The Remnants, former U.S. military that rely on
stealth, modding units, and hacking, the other being the Ascension, a
corporation that controls shielded Mechmorph war machines. Into this enters
an alien race called the Hai-Genti, aliens bent on taking over the planet,
this race pollutes the water supply and cannibalize their units to make
killing machines.
The game utilises a lot of the technology used in KD's previous RTS game,
Perimeter. Features such as terraforming and weather control are so far
unique in the genre, and are said to be core to the gameplay. In Maelstrom,
you can also control the hero units through first person.