The free-to-play shooter market is quickly growing crowded, but developer Yager has a novel take on gunplay involving giant ships, big guns, and nuclear weapons that shake the pillars of heaven and earth.
Describing Dreadnought as a “shooter” isn’t quite accurate. Though it features the control scheme that’s been standard since the days of Quake and pits teams of players against one another in a rush to see who can rack up the most kills, these opposing forces are not populated by your typical hyper-macho space marines. Instead, you pilot spaceships. Huge spaceships. Battlestar Galactica-scale spaceships. The result is a shooter that’s equal parts Team Fortress 2 and three-dimensional naval warfare. Dreadnought won’t hit shelves until some point in 2015, and aside from the guaranteed PC release, Yager has yet to nail down which platforms will play host to the game, but the controls in the PC demo I played were certainly simple enough to translate to any modern controller.
