The much more sensible path involves treating the main campaign as a glorified leveling and item-collection exercise. That is, they are in store for the player who treats this like a game with a story. Tribal leaders, grand warlords, mysterious aliens, and more completely unexpected characters, races, and “plot twists” are in store for the attentive player. It’s a world that reminds one of Warhammer (in that Warhammer has, and always will have, thinly veiled orcs and elves in space), albeit through a softer, European lens. Essentially, “primitive” humans, Zerg-like things, and mechanized humans live in a universe that leans a bit more toward sci-fi than it does toward fantasy. It takes a huge amount of effort to involve oneself to any degree in the machinations of this world.
The world of Worldshift is highly derivative. Worldshift may not stray as much into RPG territory as I might like, but it weaves together the RTS and the RPG in a likable, if somewhat fiddly, fantasy sci-fi package.
Warcraft 3 made this design mishmash both successful and popular and Relic has (surprisingly, given their strong RTS background) approached the issue from the opposite direction, producing a wonderful squad-based tactical RPG that only slipped into “full” RTS mode in multiplayer. It is by no means alone in this category. While I think that it’s the former, Worldshift is obviously a game that started as an RTS with upgradeable, leveling odds and ends and not the other way around. Depending on who you talk to, RPGs may be seeping into games everywhere, or RTSs may be doing the same.
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