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Tom Clancy: Endwar to Change the Face of Console RTS?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the die-hard-optimist dept.

Ubisoft's Julian Geright is apparently quite confident in the power of the next installment of the Tom Clancy series with Tom Clancy: Endwar . Designed specifically for the PS3 and Xbox 360, Geright hopes that this is a breakthrough for console RTS play similar to Goldeneye's FPS breakout. "This is the first game of its type and I don't think that games on console will be made the same after Endwar, [...] It's kind of boastful, but I really do think that this is a watershed type of game."

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  1. console rts innovation by lusiphur69 · · Score: 2, Informative

    First off, console RTS - cue the guffaws.

    Second, it's 'innovative' as it uses voice recognition to command troops, so while you can manually tell your little soldiers to run here; kill there - you can also bark at them for the same result, and in fact it will be required. It is a interesting way to bypass the control problems of console RTS.

    Hard to tell if it will be good - Tom Clancy has Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, but also Politika.

  2. Re:Already been done... by Hatta · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's worth mentioning that the first RTS game was published for the Sega Genesis.

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  3. Re:I thought that was supposed to be Halo Wars by The+Optimizer · · Score: 2, Informative

    I will say, and this is my opinion only, that if anyone can pull of a successful RTS on the console, it will be the Halo Wars team. The core of their team was responsible for Age of Empires 1 & 2, and they have both superior technology and game design people.