Grey Goo (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Petroglyph Games |
| Publisher(s) | Grey Box |
| Producer(s) | Six Foot |
| Designer(s) | Andrew Zoboki |
| Composer(s) | Frank Klepacki |
| Engine | GlyphX |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | January 23, 2015 |
| Genre(s) | Real-time strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Metacritic | 77/100 |
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| Publication | Score |
| GameSpot | 8/10 |
| IGN | 7,6/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 82/100 |
| Hardcore Gamer | 4/5 |
| HonestGamers | 8/10 |
| Metro | 7/10 |
| GameWatcher | 8/10 |
Grey Goo is a science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Petroglyph Games, produced by Six Foot, and published by Grey Box on January 23, 2015 for Microsoft Windows. It features a playable faction based on the grey goo scenario.
In Grey Goo players can choose one of three playable factions, the Humans, the Beta, or the Goo, and use them to complete a single-player campaign or play in a competitive multiplayer mode versus other players. Each faction features a unique set of units, structures, and play style as well as its own segment of the single-player campaign. The Beta faction relies on speed, mobility, and power to dominate the battle through battle machines and specific units able to mount themselves on "hard-points" for defense. The human faction is well-rounded and highly based on reconfiguration of their base. They possess teleportation technology, able to reconfigure their sentinels and other structures and also transport their units to anywhere on the battlefield. The Goo faction features the game's namesake, self replicating nanobots that can move around the map consuming enemies and forming themselves into new units. Due to this, they only rely on pure strength and speed to destroy anything in their way. The game bases itself around "macro decisions over micro management" and features a qwert hotkey system for unit control and construction. Also, maps feature terrain obstructing vision similar to games such as DotA and League of Legends.
The story takes place 500 years after humans first ventured outside of the solar system. The Beta (or Mora, as they call themselves), a once-spacefaring culture, has fled with the remainder of their civilization to Ecosystem 9 (which they call Falkannan), the planet the game takes place on, from an unknown threat they call the Silent Ones. During a test firing of the wormhole they meant to use to return to the stars, they are attacked by enemies coming through the portal, or "Keyhole". These advanced drone units are first suspected to belong to the Silent Ones but are later revealed to be human in origin. As the conflict between the Beta settlers, led by Aran (Commander) Saruk, and the human forces intensifies, an explosion in orbit scatters wreckage all over their colony, from which the Goo emerge and attack both sides.
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