Post by Falar on May 15, 2007 8:28:43 GMT -5
I was reading this Magazine called EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly), more specificaly about this new game called endwar. Now, this game is supposed to come out sometime in 08, but the real interesting thing is that it is going to use Voice command, and be a RTS, all at once, now, as you look at all the RTS games, you see that only a few have ever been made for consoles, because of the extreme difficulty of taking a Genre of games designed to use most, if not all the keys on your keyboard and the mouse.
What the guys making End war is doing though, is making a game made specificaly for consoles, they have danned refrences to any thing about PC games.
They have also taken Madden NFL as their unlikely inspiration, because in a lot of ways that game is a stradegy game, for instance, you pick your teams, and the composition, or your units. You call the plays and then you execute them down on the field-breaking enemy lines, running, passing, what ever.
So they are completely reinventing RTS games for consoles, now when you see Voice command, you may think, 'oh no not another one!' Well, they have been working on this for quite some time and so far, it runs smoothly, the voice command is nice, new and shiny, you give it simple commands such as "unit one attack alpha" then "unit four camera" where as Unit one moves in to attack, as the screen moves over to a pack of menacing tanks, you then say "reinforcetank" More join the pack, then you say "Unit four attack tango one" and the tanks go out to find another target.
Now Voice command will be optional and I only got to read six pages about it so I dont know a whole lot about it yet, exept that a guy named Michael De Plater is in Shangai, is making the game.
What the guys making End war is doing though, is making a game made specificaly for consoles, they have danned refrences to any thing about PC games.
They have also taken Madden NFL as their unlikely inspiration, because in a lot of ways that game is a stradegy game, for instance, you pick your teams, and the composition, or your units. You call the plays and then you execute them down on the field-breaking enemy lines, running, passing, what ever.
So they are completely reinventing RTS games for consoles, now when you see Voice command, you may think, 'oh no not another one!' Well, they have been working on this for quite some time and so far, it runs smoothly, the voice command is nice, new and shiny, you give it simple commands such as "unit one attack alpha" then "unit four camera" where as Unit one moves in to attack, as the screen moves over to a pack of menacing tanks, you then say "reinforcetank" More join the pack, then you say "Unit four attack tango one" and the tanks go out to find another target.
Now Voice command will be optional and I only got to read six pages about it so I dont know a whole lot about it yet, exept that a guy named Michael De Plater is in Shangai, is making the game.