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Tom Clancy's ENDWAR were declared!
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Yep, two threads in as many days referencing the same Futurama joke. Get over it!
BRAND NEW TRAILER - CG
New stuff coming out of that Ubiday thing. Frankly it looks incredible.
Astonishingly its a mix of R6 style ground combat, Full Spectrum Warrior style squad stuff and Dune style meta maps with it all being controlled as an RTS.
Oh, and the game can be played apparently using only voice commands. Which is, actually, amazing.
At this stage its a 360 and PS3 title, probably PC too.
We need a thread on this. Its scheduled to be released soon (which in this industry means anytime between now and 2010)
I really like the way Ubisoft is taking all this Tom Clancy Stuff. there was a time where it was shovelware standard like madden, churning out a new tom clancy whatever every year. Now, they seem to be producing some stunning games. GRAW1 and 2 are exceptional, Vegas is amazing and now EndWar and SC5 are taking it in a new direction.
Mad props to Ubi though. They are quite quickly becoming my favorite publisher. Though I didnt expect it. They kinda surprised me when I did a bit of checking and found they were publishing like 10 of my top 20 most anticipated games (including Assassin's Creed to name but one)
Kotaku Impressions wrote:The single most exciting and surprising thing to come out of Ubiday earlier this month was news that EndWar is going to use voice command to try and deal with the problems that inevitably crop up when bringing a real-time strategy game to the console.
I had a chance to see the official trailer and talked for quite a bit with one of the developers for the game, but unfortunately the game wasn't actually on hand to see in action.
The most important question, of course, is how will the voice command work because if that's flawed you might as well toss the whole game in the trash.
The developer told me that the voice command will use a series of simple, easy to remember words to let you issue commands on the fly to your units. He called it strategy at the speed of thought. The software the company is using has been thoroughly tested with very few mistakes, I was told, and of course it is still in development.
The team has tested the game with several languages and several accents without running into problems and they hope to ship it in a single SKU, meaning that all of those languages and accents will be packed into one game.
While the biggest news about the game is the voice control, the team is also taking an interesting approach to graphics. They told me they want the game to look more like Madden than Command & Conquer, with a close over the shoulder view. The team said they felt it was very important that the genre be brought into the 3D world much like Knights of the Old Republic and Grand Theft Auto did for their genres.
Finally, the game will have a massive multiplayer persistent online campaign running at all times. The way it was explained to me is that the battles fought online for one side or the other will be constantly tallied and translated into the overall military successes of both sides of the war. This will, in turn, result in real-time shifting of battle lines. The goal, they told me, is to have a single instance, instead of multiple wars running in parallel.
I also asked about the unit types the game would feature. While not all of Tom Clancy's franchises would fit into a World War III game, the developers are trying to make sure the ones that do will make an appearance. So, in other words, you can expect Ghost Recon, but probably not Rainbow Six.
Everything I was told sounded very impressive and I think this game has enormous potential, especially with different franchises they can cherry pick from, but of course, as with all real-time strategy games, it's going to boil down to how it plays, how it feels, whether they strike the right balance, and in this case, whether that voice command actually works.
Media Links:
Kotaku Ubiday Impressions
Ubisoft Viral Site
Joystiq explanation of the controls - 'Nothing like BFME2'
(Yes I know there is another thread, but the OP was crap and I like to make huge game threads)
NOTE: This game is set in the same continuity as Rainbow Six : Vegas and GRAW 1 and 2. Characters from these two games are in this game, either as NPC story related or actual units on the battlefield. Specifically Ubi said the R6:Vegas teams will be elite commanders while GRAW type guys will be the grunts.
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I am surprised that there is no game where you play as a military commander, sending orders to people playing GRAW, and giving espionage missions to people playing splinter cell, and so forth. IO guess this is kinda that game.
Final Fantasy?
Though voice command only? How is that going to be effective?
They didn't say only, there is a controller scheme too. I can't wait to play as the Russians and take down Britain
Who am I kidding, I'll probably blow my money trying to upgrade, especially with something like this on the horizon.
The voice thing sounds very gimmicky though.
"Invade Paris......IN-VAAAYYYDUH PEAR-US."
IO? Sounds like a cool game but I don't know what it stands for.
Buy a 360 for Mass Effect, Halo 3, Bioshock, Splinter Cell 5, Assassin's Creed, Endwar, and MORE
sorry, was a typo, I meant "I guess this is kinda that game" saying that EndWar sounds like the game I imagined.
(They sounded like they love me, but I can't get my hopes up and jump the gun because I'm fucking broke.)
Blue Squad Attack! Blooo squad! Belooo squad!
Hey I was thinking of buying it too. We could vs. each other online when we get it 8-)
Damn that bear. damn him to hell.
Really? I didn't get that impression because it seems more fps/rts hybrid rather than a regular ol' rts.
you only get a total of 11 units much of the actions seem a.i. controlled.. they get behind cover etc by a.i. alone.
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In that you arent controlling the whole battlefield, you are controlling one tiny area and making 'plays' such as flanking a building.
Any support you call in, air support, bombardment, you only see from that pov. you cant zoom out and see the whole battlefield.
kinda like how in Rome Total War you can snap the camera to the units. what they see, you see.
Now try describing it again
It would be "were" if it was more than one.
It's a reference to an Engrish quote.
It's a Futurama reference. You fail
As one might say, attacked my weak spot for massive dam...
No.
ive been saying this alot lately: BOUGHT like a motherfuck.
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Those Russians in the 2nd screenshot are behind some awesome cover.
It's Psychological Camouflage. Presenting themselves as a helpless target to the enemy, in hopes of creating such an ethical dilemma in the advanced warfighters that they freeze up and cannot bring themselves to pull the trigger.
The Spetsnaz take it to the next level. They wear glasses.
haha i know the feeling.
its like every feature of the game is a tumbler on a slot machine and they all started chinging on cherries.
Here's hoping there's no arcade style weapon balancing.
Okay, I admit, it's a much better thread, I'm just jealous. I'll carry on a thought from the previous thread though that someone else had brought up. If they have cameos from any other Tom Clancy characters, here's hoping Jack Ryan is president and that he looks like Harrison Ford. That would fucking own.
I demand John Clark. Do you hear me Ubi? I demand it.