Ubi Announces Tom Clancy's EndWar

[MindlessOath]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/endwar/ubi-announces-tom-clancys-endwar-254874.php

"Our development teams are invigorated to be creating the first 100 percent next-generation Tom Clancy brand," said Serge Hascoët, chief creative officer at Ubisoft. "Our success with Tom Clancy franchises is unparalleled in the next-generation and Tom Clancy's EndWar will be a marvelous addition to the already critically acclaimed library of games. A strategy game like no other, EndWar will allow gamers to lead their own armies against hundreds of others online in real global locations on the massive battlefields of World War III."

[sithdemon]

While alot of people have been complaining that it's not a FPS, I think it's a good change of pace, especially for some of the people all the way back from red storm. Plus right now, there's some REALLY good RTSs and hopefully this one will be up to that level, I'm hoping it's somewhere along the lines of Company of heroes, or even better World in conflict (which I was alpha testing for a while, friging awsome just like ground control 1). A tactical RTS, perhaps with lesser units per player, but with hundreds online it makes up for it, much like world in conflict with a few units per player, but with 8 players per side, and all the communication tools you need. If it will be ALOT of units, and base structures, thats going to get resource intensive, and then I could see it needing to be a MMO style game, much like planetside, just too many units for the average server to handle.

I hope this is another decent entry in the clancy line up, and even if not, a welcome change of pace for the people working there I'd think. Plus there still will be FPSs comming out.

[MindlessOath]

EndWar Clips, More Details Hit
http://kotaku.com/gaming/endwar/endwar-clips-more-details-hit-255284.php

Looks like that mysterious JSF site is tied to EndWar after all. If you hop on to the JSF site now and click on the passcode button you will be asked to type in a password. Type in s9p1z6 in the box and hit enter.

That jumps you to a recording of a woman giving a future history lesson. In a nutshell: the world realizes peace in 2014 but then an oil shortage leads to a new cold war which moves to space and eventually turns into the EndWar, the final big war.

Throughout the audiocast an image of the EndWar logo is flickering in the background as well as a small EGM216 flickering near the bottom of the screen. Obviously, a reference to the upcoming issue of Electronic Gaming Magazine. I'm guessing we'll be learning a lot more from the mag about EndWar when it hits.

Moving around the blank space left after the audio and video runs, I noticing two blinking yellow dots which start up videos. One video shows a soldier running through some unidentifiable terrain, he looks a bit like the soldiers from Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, the other shows a sleek fighter dropping what appears to be a missile over some desert terrain.

I'm getting a little psyched, but I am a sucker for shooters.

http://jsf28555833-80604722.com/

[BOBK]

see what I mean?

...that's game news coverage baby...

uh!  

[Da Fish]

Unfortunately, ive read reports that the RTS will be available on the next gen consoles only, which to me is the gaming equivelent of eating soup with a fork.

And most importantly, no PC game either......

[MindlessOath]

its better that ubi doesnt produce pc games.  so its eating soup with a golden spoon now.