Tom Clancy's Endwar Xbox 360 Review

A lot of games these days allow you to take the place of a war general; but not too many of them do it with the kind of innovation which Tom Clancy's Endwar provides. This is a groundbreaking real-time strategy title, and you need a special microphone device that you can use to issue commands to your vehicles and of course talk to your teammates just by talking into the device. It sounds stupid it's definitely not. It definitely works well. Tom Clancy put together an awesome presentation that throws you right into the midst of the action, it definitely offers a singular feeling of high technology like nothing seen before. If this hadn't been implemented without the microphone, Endwar's premise would probably seem a lot more simple. After all, it's about a couple of future factions and they have the rock paper scissors advantages over each other. They're also pretty straightforward, and the campaign for playing by yourself doesn't offer much story to speak of. However, a very nice multiplayer mode and great units that carry from one mission to another will keep things fresh, and overall, Endwar is a very enjoyable RTS will hopefully start a brand-new trend: real-time strategy games but actually feel like they were built for consoles, rather than PC ports.

Your headset device has a great impact on your experience. To move your units about, you just speak a series of different voice commands into it while holding down a button . This can be anything from ordering attacks to bringing in help for backup when it's available all the way to move your view to a particular group of units or employing special weapons. There are quite that many possibilities so don't think you're going to offer paths for your units to follow or set up some kind of artificial intelligence. You can't do anything like that, and you can't even play the game completely using the microphone device. But at the very least, you could still be competitive. Actions like ordering infantry to scalability or following your units to demand some special attacks do require presses of buttons on her controllers so there is still the issue of micromanagement in this way, as there always is a real-time strategy games. And moreover, if you don't have the microphone or just don't feel like trying it, you can still use only your controller, but considering how interesting and cool it is to use the microphone to issue commands but speaking, but just as a missed opportunity.