Take your current preconceptions of browser-based MMORTS games and throw them out the window. Games Campus recently announced their first ever browser-based strategy game, Ecol Tactics Online. Games Campus have said that they took inspiration from a variety of online strategy games, listening to players and learning what they felt the genre was currently missing. This has given Games Campus the opportunity to provide players with a truly unique strategy-based experience.

Step away from the traditionally mundane world of fantasy MMORTS games as Ecol Tactics Online thrusts players into old-school tactical combat in a multiplayer setting. Amazing pixel art in an fully imagined isometric world gives players a feeling of the classic RTS games of yesteryear, while still maintaining the quality and variety in modern day games.

Most strategy games today focus around the boring collection of resources and the training of thousands and thousands of units. Ecol Tactics Online provides a totally different user experience as players hire new mercenaries to join their combat forces, instead of thousands of pointless units that come and go every battle. Every mercenary comes complete with a variety of skills and special abilities, giving tactical players the opportunity to construct an unstoppable combat force based on strategy, not pure numbers.

Another great aspect of Ecol Tactics Online is the fact it's a proper game. What I mean by that is the visuals. How many RTS games have you played where the combat attacks are automated? While some even skip animations altogether and just give you a win or lose verdict. Ecol Tactics Online does neither as it offers players turn-based strategic combat with real animations and high-quality graphics.

Best of all Ecol Tactics Online will be available as a free to play title, without the need for any large and time consuming downloads. Scheduled to begin closed beta in January 2013, Ecol Tactics Online could be the first RTS launch of 2013.