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

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."

console rts innovation

[lusiphur69]

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.

Re:Already been done...

[Hatta]

It's worth mentioning that the first RTS [1up.com] game was published for the Sega Genesis.

Cue complaints of voice recognition system

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats all we're going to hear about when this game comes out. Voice recognition is still fairly primitive (let alone voice recognition in video games) and its only going to be made even worse by the complex commands/phrases players will have to learn.

"Flank left! No, the other left! Take cover! Goddamnit, why are you taking cover on the wrong side of the wall!? No, don't throw grenades at your own tanks! Ok, screw this! Go get yourselves killed!"

'Mission Accomplished'

Re:I thought that was supposed to be Halo Wars

[The Optimizer]

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.