14 DAY TRIAL // Tom Clancy's EndWar is a new brand in the Tom Clancy series of video games. Led by strategy veteran and Ubisoft creative director Michael de Plater, Tom Clancy's EndWar is being developed by a world-class team at Ubisoft's Shanghai studio whose members have carried on work on Ubisoft's hit franchises including Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and the all too familiar Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. EndWar is scheduled for release sometime between 2007 and 2008, on next-gen consoles (the press release doesn't say which of those exactly).
Tom Clancy's EndWar is set in WW III, pushing the limits of available game creating technology with unpredictable AI, showing off graphics, physics and animations not possible to accomplish, prior to the launch of new hardware systems. They say it has been built as a revolutionary war strategy game solely for next-generation consoles, so my guess is that the game will most likely see a PS3 and Xbox 360 port. The Wii isn't all that next-gen, although it fits the category.
Serge Hasco?t, chief creative officer at Ubisoft stated: "Our development teams are invigorated to be creating the first 100 percent next-generation Tom Clancy brand. Our success with Tom Clancy franchises is unparalleled in the next-generation and Tom Clancy's EndWar will be a marvelous addition to the already critically acclaimed library of games. A strategy game like no other, EndWar 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."
A first look at Tom Clancy's EndWar will be available in the June issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, in North America on May 8, 2007.