bit-tech News: Tom Clancy's Endwar

news · November 24, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published a review of *Tom Clancy's Endwar* - if you could

post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

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*/Tom Clancy's Endwar does show that it's possible to do RTS on a

console, it's just that Ubisoft has achieved it by stripping out many of

the things that make RTSes what they are. That's a bit like taking an F1

car and making it street legal by replacing the engine with one from a

Mini Metro. Sure, it's still theoretically an F1 car, but it's not very

exciting to drive.

And that's the real problem with Tom Clancy's Endwar: in making an RTS

accessible to console gamers by using speech recognition, Ubisoft has

ended up creating a game that has many of the features of an RTS, just

without much of the fun and excitement.

That's not to say that Ubisoft has failed completely -- it hasn't, and

Tom Clancy's Endwar is still a fun game when judged on its own merits --

it's just that the developer has fallen short of making the definitive

console RTS.

It's a good start, though, and we look forward to seeing where Ubisoft

Shanghai can go from here./*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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