Comments on: E3: The Trailers – Tom Clancy’s (yeah right) Endwar

By: rekki

rekki — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:41:15 +0000

if your going to read a tom clancy book read red storm rising

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:48:59 +0000

Couldn’t see playing this at a LAN.

Looking at the official site, I don’t see anywhere that this is actually coming to the PC. I see conflicting info all over the rest of the intarwebs though. Anyone have a link to an official stance on this?

By: Novack

Novack — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:44:59 +0000

I use to read Tom’s adventures. Then I grew up to discover that the mentality behind the Jack Ryan’s actions were the same behind the Bush family actions.

Then I couldnt read Tom Clancy anymore.

…

Still enjoy some of the games though, so I guess Im guilty in part of the worldwide yanky slaughtering.

By: DSX

DSX — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:34:29 +0000

Clancy’s early books are great, but then he started fleshing them out with endless one sided socio-political diatribes, makes me feel like I’m reading a war porn by Rush Limbaugh.

Hopefully there is still a keyboard process for giving orders. Doesn’t anyone else sing with their mp3’s when they play games…?

By: compuguy1088

compuguy1088 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:23:00 +0000

I’m way under 50, and I have read plenty of Clancy books. Though at the moment I’ve only read the earlier ones like Debt of Honor, Executive Decision, and such. For me though it is hard to get through them with the decent amount of details in them.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:10:50 +0000

I can see it now:

“MOVE THE FUCK FORWARD MOTHER FUCKER!”
“Roger, retreating.”

“Fall back into flanking positions.”
“Roger, attacking our flanks.”

“Team, we’re victorious”
“Roger, taking cyanide pills.”

By: Razor

Razor — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:50:26 +0000

The big problem with voice control is that you can’t help but sound like a dork to everyone around you as you use it =P

By: Jahkaivah

Jahkaivah — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:20:12 +0000

@Richard

“Right…. my tactic is working, the enemy is moving into a single location, then ill take em out in one hit. I have too be patient and only launch the kinetic strike whe- SHIT!”

“Commencing Shitting ourselves, sir!”

By: Dread

Dread — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:40:14 +0000

I was in the beta and I can say that, yes, the voice recognition demoed in the first video is that good. Even with my unique accent it picked up everything I said, even when I said “normally” (without trying to emphasis anything). The first video is definitely accurate.

As for how good it is during actual gameplay I’d have to say that once you get used to it you can execute commands with your voice 2, maybe 3 times faster than you can with the controller.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:53:08 +0000

Most of the gameplay videos for this game I’ve seen don’t feature the players going “Move tank’s to flanking position!” or the like.

It’s usually *player points camera at a street corner*, “Team Alpha move to cursor”, and the A.I. Make It So. It does seem pretty fricking functional.

EDIT: Holy shit Sigma83- good job almost offending me. There’s several names for people who speak like that in Scotland, and those people are in the minority. If you’re Scottish yourself that only slightly makes up for it.

By: FreezerBag

FreezerBag — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:18:35 +0000

Enforcer Corps? :S

@Dave A Neal Stephenson game would be simply amazing.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:28:14 +0000

“The Hunt for Red October” was good, and the original “Rainbow Six” novel was… kinda okayish. I started to read something else with his name on it about 5 years ago and gave up.

Wouldn’t mind playing games with “Neal Stephenson’s” or “Neil Gaiman’s” or “Sean McMullen’s” or “Charles Stross’” in front of the title though.