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The Rift Promotional Poster Released

The Rift Promotional Poster Released is the news today, which means another box, download, or retail shelf just got busier. ThrushWave Technology has just is behind...

The Rift Promotional Poster Released is the news today, which means another box, download, or retail shelf just got busier.

ThrushWave Technology has just is behind the announcement. ThrushWave Technology has just released the first promotional poster for its upcoming 3D real-time strategy space title, The Rift.

The poster, available for viewing on the project’s website, features several of the game’s major characters: Jacob Viscero, the player’s persona, an ex-black marketeer and stowaway on board the first colony ship to Promixa Centauri; Benjamin Corryn, a Chancellor in the colonial council and Jacob’s. The poster also features a sneak preview of the three races of “The Rift”: the Proximans, who are the human colonists sent to Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor; the Nu-guyen, an organic, space-born race whose units are unlike any spaceships man has ever conceived of; and the Entrodii,.

available for viewing on the project’s website, features several of the game’s major characters: Jacob Viscero, the player’s persona, an ex-black marketeer and stowaway on board the first colony ship to Promixa Centauri; Benjamin Corryn, a Chancellor in the colonial council and Jacob’s mentor; and Marcus Kristoff, military commander of the Proximan Defense Core. The poster also features a sneak preview of the three races of “The Rift”: the Proximans, who are the human colonists sent to Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor; the Nu-guyen, an organic, space-born race whose units are unlike any spaceships man has ever conceived of; and the Entrodii, a mysterious crystalline-based society forged in the heart of a supernova.

If this one has been on your watch list, start checking the shelves instead of just the screenshots.