EndWar Checkup

[Cavalry]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/861/861163p1.html

IGN: We've heard about the persistent online battlefield, but have yet to see it in action. Can you give us an update on what we can expect out of it when the game ships?

Michael de Plater: The online Theatre of War is a persistent "meta-campaign" where the three superpowers, the European Federation, Russia and the United States battle it out for world domination. The actual campaign map looks a bit like a high tech version of the board game Risk where Europe, the US and Russia are divided up into 40 territories with each territory representing a battlefield. The battlefields are made up of capital cities of the factions, military bases and clusters of "uplinks" to the missile defense shield. Different types of missions can be fought on each of the maps, including Assaults, Conquest Missions, Raids and Sieges. The ultimate objective of the campaign is for one of the superpowers to conquer the enemy capitals and to take and hold the majority of the territory on the map.

GN: How far along in the development process is the persistent war side of EndWar? What's being worked on right now?

de Plater: All the features are implemented and working, now we are just polishing the rules, balancing the factions and fixing bugs. The other thing we are doing is to make the whole game experience, from the first boot screen to the final screen of the campaign look and feel like an integrated military command and control system. It's kind of like the way that in Assassins Creed Ubisoft Montreal managed to unify the presentation of the whole game around the genetic memory of the main character.

Release Date:
US: September 2008
Europe: Q3 2008
Australia: TBA 2008

And The best part...

IGN: Will the public get to play a multiplayer beta or demo before the game releases?

de Plater:

Absolutely they will. All our playtests have shown that it doesn't matter how much I brag about the game, people really "get it" when they have the controller in their hands and start issuing orders via the voice command. So giving gamers an early taste of the EndWar is key.

Yes I would like my demo now please

EDITED 3 TIMES: why wont my last quote appear as one?

 

[Gargantou]

Not that hyped for this game, looks retarded, especially setting/storywise, but who knows the game might turn out to be good.

 

[theotherguy]

*piques interest*

*realizes its on a console*

*exits thread*

 

[chu]

Boooooooooo!

RTS + X = FAIL

solve for X

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

I'm on the fence for this. On one hand the voice commands sound interesting. On the other, it's a console RTS in the Clancy universe.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Boooooooooo!

RTS + X = FAIL

solve for X

X = Console?

Personally, I think this game could work out for a console, but I wish it was coming to PC

Nonetheless, I'll wait for a demo/beta to check it out

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

GRAW was good, Rainbow six was good, SC was good. Maybe this will be good. Story is retarded though. The way Clancy writes you'd think the cold war was still going on.

 

[Gargantou]

Well to be fair the cold war is still to some extent going on. Infact, Putin's Russia is still spending a huge amount of it's money on the military/armed forces.

 

[French Ninja]

It's coming for PC.

Still want.