Ubisoft Kicks Off World War III in EndWar
It's a Tom Clancy game with a more strategic bent.
World. War. Three. A trio of words that together stir many of us to our core. But for Ubisoft, it's a playground of sorts, one that is coming home in the company's new Tom Clancy game EndWar.
Specifics are sparse right now - the game is being formally unveiled in the next issue of US magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly, due in May - but we do know a few things.
For one, it's going to be a console strategy game, and as mentioned it's set during a fictional Third World War. Perhaps less surprising than the setting is the game's pedigree.
EndWar is being developed by Ubisoft's studio in Shanghai, home to developers who previously worked on other arms of the Clancy canon, including Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six. Heading the team is Michael de Plater, who spent the last half-decade immersed in the Total War series.
Ubisoft's Serge Hascoët says the game "will allow gamers to lead their own armies against hundreds of others online in real global locations on the massive battlefields of World War III."
The company has yet to circle a specific date, but the information put out this week points to a release during the company's 2008 financial year ending in March, making a launch sometime around Christmas likely.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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