Ubisoft "wished" it could allow PS3 and Xbox 360 owners to play upcoming voice-command strategy game Tom Clancy's EndWar against each other but decided it was "impossible" because Sony and Microsoft "don't like speaking to each other", Julian Gerighty, editorial content director at Ubisoft Shanghai told VideoGamer.com at Ubidays last week.

EndWar, which is set for release on Xbox 360 and PS3 simultaneously this October or November, is a console-only strategy game which can be played entirely through voice command. Set in the near future, players pick from the Americans, Europeans and Russians and attempt to dominate the world in WW3.
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The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of upcoming console-only RTS Tom Clancy's EndWar will be "identical" when the game launches this October or November, despite the PS3 port team experiencing "a little trouble at the beginning" of the game's development.

Despite the fact that the lead version is on the Xbox 360 and that the development team found the Unreal Engine 3 "a great fit" with Microsoft's console, Julian Gerighty, editorial content director at Ubisoft Shanghai revealed to VideoGamer.com at Ubidays last week that the dedicated 80 or 90 strong PS3 team "is doing really well now" with the port.

Gerighty said: "Because we have to have feature parity there's no difference in features. The way we've developed it was with Unreal 3 and we found it a really great fit with Xbox 360. PS3 team had a little trouble at the beginning but they're doing really well now. The lead version is the 360. They'll be identical when they finally launch."

He added: "There's a whole separate team of another 80, 90 guys working on it. It's really decent. And all they have to do is port it. It's a big team."
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Videogamer writes: " Test teams in Romania, China and Montreal will help avoid BBC Brain Training farce.

Ubisoft has reassured gamers that upcoming voice command strategy game Tom Clancy's EndWar won't suffer from the voice recognition problems that led to a BBC investigation into the DS and UK regional dialects.

In February this year Nintendo came under fire following a BBC Watchdog programme which told of Manchester-based Michelle Livesey's struggles with Dr Kawashima's Brain Training.

In the programme Michelle said: "Basically you have to say the different colours that flash up on the screen as quickly as possible. I'm saying, blue, blue, blue and it's saying no, even though it was blue. Then it got to yellow. I'm going, 'yeller' and everyone's saying to me you need to be a bit posher. You need to say, 'yellow' and as soon as I did, it picked it up.'"
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Ubisoft has begun recruiting for the open public beta of Tom Clancy's EndWar, the console RTS that we think looks quite good.The beta will pit players against each other online over three maps in one versus one and two versus two matches. You'll need an Xbox Live connection (duh), gold membership and 3GB of space on your hard drive.EndWar is the first real time strategy game in the franchise. It's set during World War III, ... » Read More

Using the Playstation Eye, the PS3 version of the game EndWar will allow players to wave their hands underneath the camera to navigate the game's overhead map. The feature is currently only being developed for the PS3 version, as the 360's Vision Camera lacks the stand to hold the camera vertically.
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Ubisoft is accepting applications for the EndWar Beta on the Xbox 360:

"The Private Beta will take place for 3 weeks in June and July, and will be available in English only. The Beta will feature 3 maps and be playable exclusively online in 1v1 and 2v2 matches. The Beta will be available for Xbox 360, and you will need to be an Xbox Live Gold Member, with a broadband internet connection, and 3 GB of free space on your Xbox 360 Hard Drive."
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The PlayStation 3 version of Tom Clancy's: End War will support the PlayStation Eye.When asked whether the 360 and PS3 versions were identical, EndWar content director Julian Geright replied, "Almost. We're still working on getting a decent anti-aliasing solution on PS3 that doesn't cost three frames per second."We've got six months left of debug, so we've got plenty of time for polish, but they're going to launch with more or less ... » Read More

Ubisoft's content director, Julian Geright, has claimed that the upcoming Tom Clancy's EndWar game will change the way people will make games on consoles. "This is the first game of its type and I don't think that games on console will be made the same after Endwar," he said. "It's kind of boastful, but I really do think that this is a watershed type of game." EndWar is a real-time strategy game made specifically for the PS3 and ... » Read More

From CVG: The PlayStation 3 version of Tom Clancy's: End War will support the PlayStation Eye.
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Ubisoft has told CVG that a demo for Tom Clancy's: EndWar will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network later on this year.

The demo will precede two closed beta tests that will give Ubisoft the opportunity to make sure the game is properly balanced.
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In Tom Clancy's End War your thrown in the middle of World War 3. With special features such as voice command, End War will include several brands from the Tom Clancy Universe. As a general your able to call on Ghost Recon soldiers, Hawx jets and hopefully we might see a rogue agent by the name of Sam Fisher crossing enemy lines. Stay tuned to AnalogHype.com for more info.
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Shacknews writes: "Tom Clancy's EndWar plays a bit like a voice-controlled version of World in Conflict. And like World in Conflict, it features an assortment of weapons of mass destruction.

In speaking with Ubisoft representative Julian Gerighty, I learned that the development team turned to an unlikely source of inspiration for WMD usage in their real-world RTS: Nintendo's Mario Kart.

"One of the big, big cheeses at Ubisoft is called Serge Hascoet," explained Gerighty. "He's the guy behind Rayman, he's the guy behind hundreds of things. He's a very creative guy, and a little crazy."
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Ubisoft's content director, Julian Geright, has claimed that the upcoming Tom Clancy: EndWar game will change the way people will make games on consoles.

"This is the first game of its type and I don't think that games on console will be made the same after Endwar," he said in to CVG. "It's kind of boastful, but I really do think that this is a watershed type of game."
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VG247: Ubisoft just confirmed that players in Endwar will be able to call on support from players in other Clancy games.

The company just said that Ghost Recon and HAWX units will be able to supply support in the strategy title.

"This is just the beginning of the creation of a Tom Clancy universe," said one of the game's developers.
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Ubisoft has released a bunch of screens for upcoming console RTS Tom Clancy's EndWar, scheduled to be released sometime later on in the year. ... » Read More

"After dozens of war games where you slog through the trenches, at last we have the opportunity to go to war like the generals do¿set the strategy, issue the orders, and let someone else take the shrapnel."
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"Please don't make a crappy PS3 port!" According to Guillaume Brunier, Producer for the PlayStation 3 version of EndWar. This seems to be the unanimous out cry from PS3 faithfuls. So his team at Ubisoft are answering the call. Upping the ante by making sure the game is fab for the console on day one. According to Guillaume on an IGN Blog; the title will use some PS3 exclusive features, such as it's sixaxis motion control. More after the jump.
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Tom Clancy's EndWar, for anyone just stumbling out the desert, is Ubisoft's console RTS that's employing voice control to command troops in-game. Judging by a recent video, it's a feature that may even work. But we'll make the judgment call when we experience it first-hand. In the meantime our inner Clancy fan's being entertained by a new EndWar trailer that features gameplay and cinematic footage. Ubisoft has massive confidence in EndWar and ... » Read More

It's common for video gamers to mutter or yell at their game screens, but more and more, those words are actually helping them play.

Thanks in part to Sandy-based Fonix Speech Inc., gamers can tell their characters what to do rather than machine-gunning their fingers to nubs on the controller buttons.

"Go! Go! Go!" Fonix Speech's IT manager, Joe Shepherd, chimed into a microphone during a demonstration on Monday, and a moment later the characters in his attack group went, went, went. They also followed other commands without question: "Assault!" "Infiltrate!" "Hold position!"

With already more than two dozen game titles using Fonix' VoiceIn technology, the company is awaiting the pending launch of "Tom Clancy's EndWar," which is expected to have a command vocabulary topping any of its previous games, the best of which have a vocabulary of about 70 commands.
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Some key features have been revealed for real-time strategy wargame Tom Clancy's EndWar. The game has been built from the ground up to be a console game and will feature persistent-world online multiplayer battles, with 40 battlefields set in Europe and the United States, and massive battles with more than 1000 units.
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