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According to VideoGamer, a Ubisoft studio in Shanghai is currently working on a sequel to the voice commanded game EndWar. Here's what they had to say:
To read more about this sequel being developed, visit here. What would you like to see from an EndWar sequel?
A small team at Ubisoft Shanghai is working on a sequel to last year’s voice command-controlled real-time strategy game Tom Clancy’s EndWar.
Speaking to VideoGamer.com at the Develop conference in Brighton last week, Ubisoft creative director Michael De Plater, who worked on the game, said that while he “couldn’t put a time” on when we’re likely to see something of the follow-up, the “smaller team” in Shanghai that’s working on it is concentrating on two areas of improvement – single-player story and depth.
De Plater, who was recently relocated to Ubisoft Montpellier to work with a “a really cool team” made up of “a bunch of guys who worked on Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter”, said: “You compare it [EndWar] to World in Conflict, or Company of Heroes, where they invest a lot in the storytelling, there’s no mysteries about how we could do that and apply it in the game, it’s just something we didn’t give attention to. Giving more attention to the single-player is straightforward to address and will make the game a lot of fun.
"Changing the way the combat chain works, the paper, scissors, rock, and adding the differentiation between the three factions, again it’s not something that’s even necessarily hard to do; it’s something that we chose not to do with the accessibility. So, yeah I think it’s really easy and fun to address.
“It’s a really good position to be in, in a way. After the first one, now we have a really good understanding of what to do, and we’ve solved lots of the hardest problems, which are accessibility, camera, controls, rendering that many characters, having that game work in 3D, our online as well, having persistent campaigns, having persistent player armies, so we’ve kind of done the hard stuff. There’s a really clear path forward there.”
Speaking to VideoGamer.com at the Develop conference in Brighton last week, Ubisoft creative director Michael De Plater, who worked on the game, said that while he “couldn’t put a time” on when we’re likely to see something of the follow-up, the “smaller team” in Shanghai that’s working on it is concentrating on two areas of improvement – single-player story and depth.
De Plater, who was recently relocated to Ubisoft Montpellier to work with a “a really cool team” made up of “a bunch of guys who worked on Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter”, said: “You compare it [EndWar] to World in Conflict, or Company of Heroes, where they invest a lot in the storytelling, there’s no mysteries about how we could do that and apply it in the game, it’s just something we didn’t give attention to. Giving more attention to the single-player is straightforward to address and will make the game a lot of fun.
"Changing the way the combat chain works, the paper, scissors, rock, and adding the differentiation between the three factions, again it’s not something that’s even necessarily hard to do; it’s something that we chose not to do with the accessibility. So, yeah I think it’s really easy and fun to address.
“It’s a really good position to be in, in a way. After the first one, now we have a really good understanding of what to do, and we’ve solved lots of the hardest problems, which are accessibility, camera, controls, rendering that many characters, having that game work in 3D, our online as well, having persistent campaigns, having persistent player armies, so we’ve kind of done the hard stuff. There’s a really clear path forward there.”
To read more about this sequel being developed, visit here. What would you like to see from an EndWar sequel?