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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land With only a few more months to wait for Creative Assembly’s post-apocalyptic real-time strategy title Stormrise, the company drops details on some of the units we’ll be controlling after the world ends.
For those of you who’d rather not fill your Xbox 360 with a nice-sized chunk of video, here’s the first in a series of video documentaries for the real-time strategy game Halo Wars.
Ensemble Studios’ real-time strategy take on the Halo universe is heading to the printer, with a single player demo of Halo Wars ready to strike Xbox Live Marketplace on February 5th.
Ubisoft are the proud new owners of Massive Entertainment, the developers behind World in Conflict. And Ubisoft have just announced a release date for World in Conflict: Soviet Assault.
Since the PlayStation 3 version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is the “Ultimate Edition”, that makes this video the Ultimate Red Alert 3 launch trailer. Let’s watch.
Want in on the Dawn of War II beta? Don’t want to pay “full price” for Dawn of War: Soulstorm, the only way you can currently get into the beta? Things just got easier.
Last we heard, Relic’s second swing at a Warhammer 40K strategy game was due on February 27. Since then, however, things have changed, and the release has been bumped up a few days.
As a new real-time strategy franchise, Tom Clancy’s EndWar seems to have a lot going for it. First there’s that gee-whiz technology that lets you order around grunts like you’re McArthur at the Battle of Manila. But better still is the deep world in which the game is built. EndWar is meant to be the ultimate conflict in Tom Clancy’s espionage and Cold War universe, a rolling end-of-days war peopled with Ghost Recon teams and Third Echelon black-ops.
Gametrailers has just launched part one of their in-depth look at everything Warcraft, The Warcraft Retrospective. It’s a comprehensive look at the origins of the Blizzard property, and when I say comprehensive I mean they go back to the original real-time strategy game, Don Daglow’s 1982 game Utopia for the Intellivision, through Warcraft 1 & 2, and even feature footage from the abandoned Warcraft Adventures game. So entertaining and informative that I almost forgot to set this post live. The Warcraft Retrospective Part 1: Drums of War [Gametrailers]
newVideoPlayer("endwar.flv", 463, 387,""); Ubisoft just sent over this trailer for EndWar which features a snippet, a very short snippet of gameplay. What it doesn’t show, for some reason, is their super cool user interface which uses, almost entirely, your voice. So far this game is shaping up to be a must get for me if for no other reason than I like the idea of pacing around in front of my television issuing “commands” to my troops. I totally need to figure out where I can buy a swagger stick.
