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EndWar’s Michael de Plater Launches Preemptive Strike Against Thumbs
June 02, 2008
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 »
