OXCGN checks out Tom Clancy's first RTS especially for the consoles. Finds it's all what it was cracked up to be, and a little more.
Read how one reviewer got caught with his headphones on commanding his troops while the delivery guys wonders what the hell is going on . .
Slip over to the site, check out the rather long, but detailed review has to say, perhaps it might sway you to give this unique RTS a solid try.
""Unit seven, attack hostile two".
"Umm mate, you've got a package".
A rather amused delivery guy is there staring at me talking intently at the TV through my headphones. I'm not able to adapt from Colonel 'me' to just plain 'me' quickly enough and I end up trying to get out of my chair while dropping the controller at the same time, but forgetting that the headphones on my head are attached to the controller. I look even more foolish as I drag the controller off the chair onto the floor, then when I try to tear the headphones from my head, only end up breaking them. The delivery guy is now laughing. Shit."
The PlayStation Network is back again for its weekly sale which currently features games from the Tom Clancy franchise like the recently released Rainbow Six Seige and Splinter Cell Blacklist.
The sale has a variety of titles spanning across the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita. The sale will be starting today and will run until next Tuesday 11:00 am. This is the time for gamers to give the tactical Rainbox Six Siege shooter a chance as you can save up to 45%.
Forget discounts,If they want to compete with EA Access, they need to bump up the AAA Games that are on the PS Store and on PS Now. There weren't a lot of games on PS Now that interested me, especially for that price point.
Let's take a moment and think about this..
Sony, I love you, but take notes! EA Access has a lot of extras that sound great if you’re looking for a new loyalty program, that blanket 10% off digital video games will definitely save subscribers some money if they’re big fans of Electronic Arts’ video games. Users who purchase a brand new Electronic Arts Xbox One title a month will break even on that first game, saving $6 off a $60 purchase.
PSN store trying to compete with EA Access? What nonsense!
Total different things!
And they need to bump up the AAA games on the PSN store? What? All the AAA games can be bought on the PSN store.
And no, PS Now is also not trying to compete with EA Access, again something else entirely...
And no, EA Access is not good value at all if you do not live in the US! They give 10% off on digital game purchases, MSRP of games is €70, 10% off means they are €63 but I can buy physical copies during initial release for between €50-55. Then there are a gazillion sports titles for free that I have no interest in. The games I'm interested in I already buy so don't need free copies a year after their release. The only nice thing about it is the 10 hours early access, that's it!
Ubisoft have today announced that Tom Clancy’s EndWar Online has completed its Alpha and is kicking off the Beta Test phase. The Closed Beta will start on September 1 and will run until the beginning of November and will come with two brand new commanders on each side, a brand new PvE mode called Special Operations, support for multiple characters on an account, a new VIP system and tons of additional improvements.
Ubisoft Shanghai have announced that after some great feedback from Part #1 of their On the Front Lines: A Fresh Start Developer Blog for Endwar: Online, they have begun to include some suggestions into Alpha Update v0.5.0, and have now released Part #1.5, in which the development team says that one of the biggest advantages of being involved in the Alpha Test is the flexibility.
I wasn't THAT keen on the game to be honest. Even seeing it first hand some weeks before the launch at a Ubi-event still didn't "do it for me" as they say.
But after reading this, I'm finding myself drawn to it for some odd reason. I'm not into the whole RTS thing, but this seems and sounds a great deal different, and might just have me a little bit more interested than I once thought.
Who else has played it at length yet?
have you checked the review out, he says the commands and controls on the console version are brilliant . . . and from what I saw at the ubi-event earlier, they are a snack to master, and less cumbersome than the pC commands. hire it and give it a go if possible.
There's bugger all in the visual differences on the both versions from what I saw at Ubi offices. but the PC had to have a little more grunt in it, which is usual unfortunately.
Give it a whirl on rental, see what you think?
I am glad they look at alternatives for console in ways to command your troops. Being a huge LOTR fan I had to get the RTS but I just found the controller too clumsly on the 360.
Looks like I have found another game I have to find the money for!
I still might give EndWar a go, even though I will look like a complete knob by doing it. I like the ability to use either voice commands or the controller.
I played the demo, and I really didn't like it...
it didn't feel like classic starcraft, warcraft, or command and conquer.
(which I know is kinda of what its trying to do - be different..)
but i couldn't get into it.