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Ubisoft To Merge Tom Clancy Games

Posted by Soulskill on from the consolidation-of-a-franchise dept.

SlappingOysters writes "In an interview with Gameplayer, Tom Clancy's EndWar Lead AI Programmer Vinh-Dieu Lam spoke in detail about plans to tie all the different Clancy franchises together into one big game experience in the near future. Among other things, he had this to say: ' ... with EndWar, the meta-campaign side of it is a standalone server so you can feed things into this system so it can basically generate any sort of mission. So its missions generate for EndWar at the moment, but there is no reason why we cannot generate missions from the other franchises. This is where we are looking at tying together the different franchises. So maybe in the next EndWar you will need to attack Paris, but before you can, it may generate some sort of Splinter Cell recon mission, or a Ghost Recon mission or things like that. But that is the direction we are looking at.'"

4 of 19 comments (clear)

  1. Huh... by Etrias · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, they were different?

  2. I can't decide wether this is good or not. by carlvlad · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I can't decide whether this is good or not. On one hand we'll be able to experience different type of game play in one game, but on the other hand I'm not quite sure of the quality as the I have a nagging feeling that the missions available will be quite repetitive.

    1. Re:I can't decide wether this is good or not. by CRCulver · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Just like ghostwritten Tom Clancy books are repetitive?

  3. Riiight.. by Shabadage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because we love having to swap discs every ten minutes!