Oil Rush

Not to be confused with Oil boom.
Oil Rush
Developer(s)UNIGINE Holding S.à r.l.
Publisher(s)UNIGINE Holding S.à r.l.
Iceberg Interactive
Designer(s)Vitaliy Sidorov, Stanislav Zagniy
EngineUnigine
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS
ReleaseJanuary 25, 2012
Genre(s)Real-time strategy, tower defense
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer[1]

Oil Rush is a tower defense real-time strategy game developed by UNIGINE Holding S.à r.l. using their Unigine engine technology.[2] Set in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world, the game consists of players fighting over control of the world's last remaining oil reserves.[3] The game was released as a digital download for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and OS X.[4]

This theme has been viewed as controversial by some, especially as Oil Rush was originally intended to be released only a little more than a year after the much publicized Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[5] The game itself actually delivers an environmental warning message, with Unigine's CEO Denis Shergin commenting that "Fuel devouring armies that fight over the last drops of oil and pollute already trashed world is nothing but doublethink. That is a warning environmental message we'd like to deliver in a single-player campaign."[6]

  1. ^ Michael Larabel (March 31, 2011). "Unigine Build Now Does Multi-Player, More Destruction". Phoronix. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  2. ^ Michael Larabel (September 1, 2010). "Unigine Announces Its OilRush Game For Linux". Phoronix. Retrieved September 4, 2010.
  3. ^ Alice O'Connor (September 2, 2010). "Naval RTS-Tower Defense Hybrid 'OilRush' Announced". Shacknews. Archived from the original on April 13, 2011. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
  4. ^ "Oil Rush Release Date and Special Offers for Indie Developers". November 22, 2011. Archived from the original on November 25, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
  5. ^ Andrew Webster (September 17, 2010). "Drilling for controversy: indie games tackle offshore oil drilling". Ars Technica. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
  6. ^ John Callaham (October 17, 2010). "Interview: Unigine co-founder chats about OilRush". Big Download. Archived from the original on October 20, 2010. Retrieved October 21, 2010.