Tom Clancy's Endwar Official Thread

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In 2011, the United States and the European Union sign the historic SLAMS (Space-Land-Air Missile Shield) Treaty, agreeing to co-develop technologies for a comprehensive, interlocking anti-ballistic missile system. Left out of the treaty, Russia accelerates development of its own system. SLAMS is activated in 2014. The US and EU launch test salvos against each other, which the SLAMS weapons completely destroy. Emboldened by the success of the tests, the US and EU pronounce "the end of strategic nuclear war," and the world celebrates a new age of peace and security.

However, in 2015 it is found that major oil companies have overstated the amount of recoverable oil reserves. Energy security becomes the explicit priority of governments around the world. Russia, being the world's number one supplier of natural gas and crude oil, has its economy skyrocket up with the energy crisis, spending its oil profits on modernizing its armed forces and utilizing its new-found power to influence world events. A nuclear war occurs between Saudi Arabia and Iran in 2016, killing 20 million, further compounding the energy crisis and greatly destabilising the nations of Europe. With crude oil now at 800 dollars a barrel, the alliance of individual countries of the European Union are forced to band together to consolidate political, economic and military power in the face of growing global security, environmental and economic concerns. Morphing to become the new superpower of the "European Federation" (EF) in 2018, most of the wealthy Western Europe is now recognized as an independent state in its own right. Britain and Ireland decline membership while Switzerland remains neutral. The US and EF regard each other's power as a threat to their own, the now fractured former allies embark on a costly space arms race with each other.

The militarisation of space reaches its peak in 2018, when the United States reveals plans to launch the "Freedom Star" space station into high orbit by 2020, in an effort to regain its position as the premier world superpower. While partly designed for civilian research purposes, the station will also house three companies of U.S. Marines, who can deploy anywhere on Earth within 90 minutes. International reaction is extremely negative, to say the least. The EF and Russia in particular despise the development, seeing it as a way the US could use to neutralise their portion of anti-ballistic defences and upset the balance of power. They withdraw from the already divided NATO in protest. In 2020, when the final module of the Freedom Star is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center amid international outcry, it comes as little surprise when a group of terrorists attack the launch site. In investigating the source of the attack, the US, the EF, and Russia find themselves at odds, rolling with unstoppable momentum toward full-scale global war
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Who else is getting this then? Seems good, not sure about the voice control though. Will buy a headset anyway to give it a go.
 
I suppose you can. But with a new type of gameplay mechanic, I'm pretty sure playing the demo couldn't hurt.

As good as the voice command is, game play wise it's a bit too messy and camera control sucks.
 
I tried the demo which was alright, the voice commands worked pretty well but the camera was dodgy as hell. Still though, its something a bit different.
 
I was in the Beta and from what I hear they didn't change much at all, and personally I felt it was one of the worst Beta's I've ever took part in. The Voice Control however was impressive I will definately give it that and I hope future RTS's try to implement it.
 
The voice recognition system is very good, it recognised what I was saying most of the time and I even slurred my speech on purpose to see if it could still understand me which it did. I liked the demo an awful lot so this is one on my list for sure
 
It picked up my geordie accent nee bother at all.
I really want to love this game but I had one play through of the demo and that was enough.
It'll be a rental for me.
 
well I have this still unopened on my desk at the moment. loved the demo purely for the voice command system. I have so many games at the moment that I am waiting until I finish some so that I can put some solid time into this.
 
Just played the demo of this finally last night, and I was mightily impressed with the voice recognition, it just became natural too.

Agree with comments above regarding the camera. Surely this could have benefited much more from a C&C style camera much more - maybe not quite as abstract, but still.

Quite like the idea of the persistent online game world (if I understood what it was about).

Not sure about it, but I certainly have a hankering for more... just not sure £37.99's worth...

Anyone else got it an enjoying it?
 
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