Comments on: Ubidays 2008: Ubi promises pre-release EndWar demo

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:24:22 +0000

I reckon a lot of people are watching this. God knows how it’s going to do at retail, though.

By: SplatteredHouse

SplatteredHouse — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:14:13 +0000

I wouldn’t dismiss it because of that. Ubi will be aware of the issues people had with that, and besides, Nintendo isn’t exactly on the fore-front of technological advances, are they - you’d think that the other two would have more suitable tech for discerning what people are going on about.

I liked how you could switch the camera to the perspective of any of your forces, with one command, to see the world from their individual viewpoint; rather than being stuck fooling around trying to scroll to the right bit, quickly enough. I’ve only seen WiC, not played it, but this looked graphically stronger, and more detailed than that.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:59:11 +0000

I’ve watched the video of this and it really doesn’t look very exciting at all. Is there any kind of buzz surrounding this whatsoever?

The voice control thing is something of a novelty but having been irritated enough by Dr Kawashima’s seeming inability to understand the names of colours I remain a little sceptical that it can be used to control something as complicated as a strategy game.