Kalypso Media, publisher of award-winning PC and console games that include The First Templar, Dungeons and Tropico 4, has announced that Elements of War, a real-time strategy game where players’ armies use both conventional and climate-control weapons to devastate the enemy, has gone gold and will be released to North American retail outlets and via digital distribution on April 12.

Set on Earth in the not-so-distant future, Elements of War focuses on a conflict for the survival of humanity that ensues after a secret military weather control experiment sets in motion a near-complete global climate collapse. Three factions battle on American soil for control of fearsome weather-based weapons, granting them the power to use tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, torrential rains and other forces of nature as weapons of war.

Players can take charge of a wide variety of military units, from modern helicopters and battle tanks, to futuristic weaponry such as powered exoskeletons, EMP generating vehicles and lightning-throwing planes as they battle across a torn and tattered near-future United States.



As gamers fight their way across the destroyed landscape, they unlock next-generation weather-controlling weaponry allowing them to unleash tornadoes, earthquakes and much more on their enemies.