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Tom Clancy's EndWar
EndWar is an upcoming real-time strategy game from Ubisoft that takes a unique approach to war; it uses voice commands.The battle was in Paris, and we played as Russia against the European Federation, battling back and forth across the Seine River for territorial supremacy. Voice commands aside, EndWar is a straightforward RTS game, with a very easy-to-grasp rock-paper-scissors dynamic. Tanks kill transports, transports kill gunships, and gunships kill tanks. You also need infantry to capture victory locations, and artillery can kill pretty much anything from a distance, or get killed by anything from nearby.
We battled back and forth, but by sending our tanks after their transports and our transports after their choppers, all the while capturing points with our troops, we managed to swing the battle drastically in our favor. With the enemy back on their heels, the match entered the "EndWar" phase, which gave them access to a WMD strike. They quickly hit us with a devastating attack that annihilated all of our transports and troops, who had been stationed at a base. Fortunately, we had built up enough points by dint of our victory locations for a WMD strike of our own, and the screen flashed white as we blasted an entrenched enemy stronghold in which infantry had been garrisoned in convincingly French-looking buildings.
Throughout the whole match, we never had a backfire for a correctly stated command, and the game took place in a noisy room. Although all of the commands and syntax will no doubt take some getting used to, from what we saw, learning to speak EndWar should be a uniquely entertaining lesson when the game ships later this year.