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EndWar Will Have Gamers Yelling Something Other Than Hollow Threats

When Tom Clancy’s EndWar makes it to retail on November 4 it will be the first real time strategy game with full voice controls. If you don’t want to move units around with your thumbs on a controller, all you have to do is bark your commands and watch your minions cut a swath of destruction through cities like Washington D.C. and Paris It presents gamers with a novel chance to yell something into their headsets other than baseless assumptions of sexual preference and racial epithets. Hit the jump to watch a trailer of the game in action. If you want to try it out for yourself, the EndWar is available on Xbox Live. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ubisoft Delaying EndWar PC Launch Due To Piracy Issues

According to an interview on videogaming247 with Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Michael de Plater the PC version of Tom Clancy’s EndWar probably won’t hit shelves alongside the console versions for fear of cannibalizing PS3 and Xbox 360 sales. “At the moment, if you release the PC version, essentially what you’re doing is letting people have a free version that they rip off instead of a purchased version. Piracy’s basically killing the PC.” Read the rest of this entry »

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EndWar’s Michael de Plater Launches Preemptive Strike Against Thumbs

For the first time in history gamers can give their joysticks the finger instead of their thumbs. The developers behind Tom Clancy’s EndWar, Ubisoft’s new real-time strategy game, designed the game to support completely hands-free gameplay. They even included multiple languages and accents, so any industrialized nation can rediscover the joys of world domination. Players can control virtually every aspect of this World War III simulation, which pits Europe, the United States, and Russia in a three-way fight 2020, with the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 microphone headset.

“You can play the whole game with the controller or with voice commands, or you can mix and match,” explained Micheal de Plater, creative director at Ubisoft Shanghai, during our interview at Ubidays 2008 in Paris. “Most people start with a combination and then gradually switch over to just voice. There are over 6,000 command combinations of voice commands in the game.” Read the rest of this entry »

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