I did the beta, and I really did not like it. Very glad I didn't have to pay anything to find that out.

I stuck with it and kept playing to hold up my end of the bargain, though.

StartingAces

Sadly does nothing for me... Let me play as my own country but not in DLC and we'll talk!

aphexmalus

@Heliophage:
And no worries England! My friend has a strong British accent and it worked well for him too. I thought it would be crappy like the supposed voice controls for the old Rainbow Six that ended up blowing.

DarkHavoc99

I so much want this, but I'm still on the fence about how this game will play out. That and the fact that there are like 4 other games I want coming out in the same time period. How are you guys/girls leaning on how this game will be?

s1L3nt_n18t

@Spenze:

Also a Beta player, and it was surprisingly well done and natural. It made me even more excited to play.

Heliophage

Even though this game is still in production, i am sure i will be able to say this even after it comes out.

AOE 3 > Tom Clancy's Endwar

Jethrothegreat

@Spenze:

Yeah, I'll buy if the voice works out...

Or if it has George Takei...

The SmacK

@Averus:

you sir are a fool this game will own

adamr999

@TOWER_JUNKIE:
No they are actually great.

DarkHavoc99

@Spenze:
I was in the beta and trust me, its suprisingly spot on.

DarkHavoc99

@marlblank: I think I heard somewhere that theres only going to be 12 or so voice commands, so training might not even be necessary if the different commands are distinct enough one from the next.

Lets just hope it works or this game is going to be pointless.

Spenze

@3lias: Sorry bout that i actually didn't pay attention to the trailer first time round,i really like the idea behind the WMD's but i cant see how it'll do much more than give them a beat me for free card.

3lias

It seems like the game is pretty limited and rigid in what it lets you do and when. I guess that might be because of the voice system needing to keep things simple, but I'm just not feeling it.

Also, wtf is with those WMDs? Way to work buzzwords into your game to make it seem more legit. Those are not even weapons of mass destruction, maybe the vacume bomb, kinda. What about germs? What about chemicals? What about Nuclear?

Bah...

DevCo

These look a lot like world in conflict.
God damn, I still need to get me a multiplayer key on that game if I can find it in stores again :p.

For endwar, it would seem cool if the voice recognition would work. I hope that they put in an option to train a system to your voice. Then again, for high end (and actually working systems) you need to read at least three hours worth of text to train a system. Since this is using short commands, I think it won't take so long.

Still, you need to be able to recognize people when they are stressed or have a cold. I'll be looking at how this plays out :p.

marlblank

I believe this will be worth playing solely for the voice controls (assuming the recognition doesn't suck).

TOWER_JUNKIE

So far looks like a reskinned SWEAW but i guess we'll see

3lias

Glad the beta is starting soon.

SolDieR

Ahh, nothing like MAD actually put into a game to make me want to play it even more.

Tull

I haven't been following this game, but those videos remind me of World in Conflict. Endwar looks nice, but I think they have to do more to differentiate it from World in Conflict for me to pick it up.

BigDragon

i am no longer interested in this game.

Averus

I'm just hoping the voice recognition doesn't suck.

Spenze

This game could revolutionize the game industry. imagine telling ghost 2 to flank while ghost 3 and 4 blankes the enemy with fire. and you tell them all that....

ZetaCrossfire

@SegevRaz:
Yeah, Ubisoft must really be afraid of making money...

Andune

@XbhaskarX: The only reasonable thing I could think of, is that "winning" is the defending side, and "losing" is the attacking side. Obviously the Europeans wouldn't nuke Paris or something like that, unless another country already destroyed it in some way.

Jezuz

Once the "losing side" has used a WMD, the "winning side" is "authorized" to use a retaliatory WMD?

What the hell is with these weird and arbitrary rules?

XbhaskarX

Not coming out for PC?

Damn.

SegevRaz

@StartingAces: Yeah, same here. It just didn't do anything for me and despite voice recognition being a cool feature for the first couple of minutes. I found it quickly got tiring and just reverted to the dpad.

Eon.

lol, that thing gets a Teen rating. See, kids, if you see a nipple, that'll destroy your morals for life. But killing a bunch of thousand people in a glorious WMD strike, that's the harmless fun you were looking for!

I mean children will play it whatever they print on these boxes (I always did). It's just a nice snapshot of the current mentality when it comes to war games.

At least Europe got stile... we use LAZERS!

lumpi

@adamr999: In your opinion. After the Beta I haven't really looked at End War. It was boring and there are far more promising games around the corner. The voice command works well but it's really a novelty rather than a necessity because it's easier to use the dpad for commands.

Eon.

Any word on whether ps3 eye support is included? Article I read said it was possible but nothing definitive ever worked its way out.

Punkateer

@Jethrothegreat: Sure how, exactly? Clairvoyance or just stubbornness?

SarcasmOD

@DevCo: This is the 'future'. Those are WMDs that are made to have less collateral damage. And the American kinetic energy weapon is something the Pentagon is trying to build (they say that about a lot of things of course) called the Sword of Damocles. Nukes and germs are old hat.

SarcasmOD

@belo:
Yeah, I would certainly think that if a nuke was launched today, there would certainly be something coming back.

Benjammn

@XbhaskarX: because its exactly the same protocol in how its done today in modern warfare?

belo

This game looked interesting from the get-go. Along with confirmed nods that the voice recognition works well, I say that this is the most unique strategy game to come out in a while. I know unique != good, but the game idea is really the easiest way to release a strategy title on consoles. If only I had a 360..../sigh.

Benjammn

@Eon.: Exactly. Give me this game with a keyboard + mouse interface and I might dig it.

StartingAces

Awesome! It is being released on PC (I think). DO WANT. :P
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Benjammn

holy... wasn't aware of this addition in gameplay. definitely throws off the type of strategy throughout the battle in this type of game (rts?)

kw4k

so, it's exactly like world in conflict, only with voice commands.

Armagetiton

@XbhaskarX: I like that a player needs to consider his/her objectives before deploying their WMDs. Just because someone uses theirs on you doesn't mean you need to respond. Alternatively, just because you're losing does not mean you should obliterate your own major cities. Scorched earth isn't the only policy, after all.

Not that it matters, because everyone is going to use them all the time anyway...unless they actually carry penalties. Which they won't. Because god-forbid players have consequences for their actions.

Trystero

eh? its good enuff for the DS but not for the wii?

weird :/

Onizuka-GTO

@Armagetiton: I don't know much about world in conflict, but in that game can you pick between 3 factions and then go online to battle for control of the world? If so then yes, it's just like it.

thaswizz

@Spenze: haha I remember the first rainbow on xbox that had the voice command. You say SHIT and your squad members would be like moving out.

thaswizz

I'm actually quite excited for this, I think it will be fantastic. However, I am more excited for Gears 2, which comes out the same week. And unfortunately, I don't have the budget for more than one game in a given week. So this will get pushed back a ways.

moutski

"a new Odama style voice command strategy game"

Adama + Obama = Odama? Now THERE'S a vote I'd cast in a heartbeat!

pkphy39

@XbhaskarX: @Onizuka-GTO:

How would this work for the Wii?

Sonic84

This looks nice, similar in concept to Ground Control, you need points for reinforcements. I hope this turns out good.

antisniper

What about voice commands in languages other than English.

Just being curious, but is it set up for other languages too?

Strife56

first vid looks like plastic army men.

everybody is going to be using wmd's. probably 5% of all the people who play will actually think about not using them.

INDIGOVENOM

@Strife56: Through localization, yes I would be willing to bet. Considering Ubisoft is a french owned company I'd also be willing to bet.

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

@Tull: my thoughts exactly people bitching and moaning are not paying attention you cant yse nukes willy nilly its only if youre loseing and you have to weigh the desision carefuly because once you open the wmd can of worms youre enemy can use them as well this is briliant i definatly want this game

misterx231

@BigDragon: Especially with World in Conflict itself coming along fairly soon on the Xbox.

NiceMissMayonnaise

Why does it look like we're playing with green plastic army men again?

ST19AG_WGreymon

2 things: ESRB rating - Suggestive Content? In a future-war RTS? How/why?!

Also, I don't get why voice recognition is cool. Sure it's fun to start with, being able to order units around just by speaking, but who can honestly see themselves sat in their lounge speaking to their TV for hours at a time? Why not just use quiet buttons that don't make you feel like an ass when a family member walks in to you repeating 'Echo 3, go!' over and over at the screen?

NiceMissMayonnaise