Tom Clancy Takes on WWIII: EndWar

A story on the Next Generation site revealed the latest Tom Clancy/Ubisoft venture to be a "war strategy game" titled, EndWar. Ubisoft's development branch in Shanghai will be producing the game, which is being touted as the first Tom Clancy title built for next-gen platforms from the "ground up". Details are still sketchy. All we know is that it will be an RTS and is set in the speculative future of a third World War.

I'm casually optimistic about EndWar. On one hand, I suspect it will be a new style RTS, one that eschews base-building and resource gathering in favour of planning attack stratgies and capturing "control points" a la Dawn of War. On the other, the game is being developed by Ubisoft Shanghai, which did only a so-so job with the recent Splinter Cell: Double Agent. That game, while pretty and sometimes gripping, is currently languishing on my shelf in favour of a much older stealth game (more on that later). The Shanghai also doesn't have much of a track record of creating RTS's, if any, so it should be interesting to say the least to see what they come up with. In any case, EndWar has an attractively cryptic website to check out while you wait for the solid previews to roll in.

Source: Next Generation