player's vehicle is an important element of gameplay, particularly in multiplayer - a proper balance between all of the components is necessary to assure the player a reasonable chance of success. Multiplayer gameplay includes classic modes deathmatch, team deathmatch, and capture the flag. Development The game was announced in May 1998. Reception Starsiege received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. IGN highlighted the well presented package and cutscenes, graphically impressive (whilst sparse) landscapes, intuitive controls and the longevity of the multiplayer mode. The minimal sound effects were criticised, with muddled voice-overs, and some of human HERC models were felt to be a bit bland and generic. GameSpot said, "Starsiege brings new life to a genre otherwise devoid of it, even if it doesn't really succeed in elevating robot sims out of their long-term rut." Next Generation called it "a worthy successor to the Earthsiege series [that] should be just as attractive to fans of Heavy Gear or Mechwarrior II ." In February 1999, Dynamix announced that it would launch the game with a shipment of 250,000 units to retailers. It sold 36,000 units in the U.S. by the end of July 1999, according to PC Data. Calling these figures "pitiful", Mark Asher of CNET Gamecenter wrote, "Sierra gave this game a big push and it just didn't sell, and now most of Dynamix is gone." The same website nominated the game for its 1999 "Best Sci-Fi Simulation" award, but gave the prize to MechWarrior 3. Sequels The first-person shooters Starsiege: Tribes (1998; released before Starsiege), Tribes 2 (2001), Tribes: Aerial Assault (2002), Tribes: Vengeance (2004) and Tribes: Ascend (2012) followed this game. Starsiege 2845 was a game in development from 2003 to 2007. Like the later Tribes Universe game developed in 2010–2011, it stagnated into hiatus and was not completed. In 2015, the game was bundled with Starsiege: Tribes and released as freeware by Hi-Rez Studios. In September of 2022, Prophecy Games announced Starsiege: Raiders, a first-person PvP and PvE looter shooter with procedurally generated environments. References External links 1999 video games Fiction about Earth Freeware games Video games about mecha Fiction set on Mercury (planet) Video games set on Venus Video games developed in the United States Video games set on Mars Video games set on the Moon Video games set in the 29th century Windows games Windows-only games Video games set on Titan (moon)