Philip José Farmer's Riverworld

Genres

Real Time Strategy (RTS)

Developer

Cryo Interactive

Publisher

Cryo Interactive

The player takes the role of Richard Burton, the nineteenth century explorer. The game begins with a cinematic sequence showing what happens to Burton after he has died – how he comes to enter Riverworld. Riverworld is a real-time strategy game, similar to Microsoft's Age Of Empires. Although Burton is the central character, it is seen from a third-person perspective, and other people within the game can be moved and controlled.