EndWar beta test in November

By Tom Bramwell Published 24 May, 2007

Says creative director.

Tom Clancy's EndWar will be publicly beta-tested later this year, judging by comments made by creative director Michael de Plater in an interview with Eurogamer. Ooh, that's us.

"We really believe that as soon as anyone can get their hands on the controls and experience it, it'll be something new and it's a level of immersion and realism and accessibility that's never really been in a strategy game," he said during Ubisoft's Parisian showcase yesterday.

"We're really focusing on getting our beta-test out for November."

De Plater also made it clear that the Tom Clancy World War III scenario outlined in EndWar could form the basis for other projects. "As you can see from looking at World War II [games], World War III is something that can be big enough to be explored from loads of different directions, loads of different theatres, genres - we really see this as the beginning of that," he said.

EndWar - a console strategy title that offers voice command support as well as pad controls, and has been developed from the ground up for consoles - is previewed elsewhere on the site today. Now, actually. Get.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • kissthestick #1 5 years ago

    loads of betas this year

  • DB2k #2 5 years ago

    that's because they don't want to employ testers.

  • asphaltcowboy #3 5 years ago

    "...as soon as anyone can get their hands on the controls and experience it..."

    Pfft! Hands are so last-gen!

  • Steroyd #4 5 years ago

    Maybe Public Beta's are a new marketing ploy to market the game so many months early and garner hype through hardcore gamers because Hardcore gamers getting first hand experience and telling friends how awesome it is, is more effective at filtering to the casual consumer base rather than just Magazines giving us impressions on a game and the Hardcore gamers have to interpret whether it's good or not.

    Wouldn't be surprised if this is what Sony's doing with Warhawk and HOME and MS with Halo and definitely wouldn't be surprised to see a Socom or Killzone beta in the near future either.

    /2 cents

  • dog2_99 #5 5 years ago

    i thought the Killzone beta was confirmed a few months back? only been half interested in the game so didn't really pay attention...

  • bioreit #6 5 years ago

    The problem with internal betas is that they NEVER pick up on the myriad problems that every day users experience, just by their very nature of not being paid games-testers.

    Trust me, they'll do both internal testing along with this public beta - this is just a way of helping them find as many bugs as possible before going gold.

  • The-Bodybuilder #7 5 years ago

    Betas and demos are the new marketing ploys.
    The Blacksite demo is still, IMO, the best marketing demo ever. What a way to explode into the scene.

  • Lacero #8 5 years ago

    Endwar sounds like a really cool game, though this is the... 5th article on it this week?

  • coojam #9 5 years ago

    Maybe the beta will be free to everyone that buys Assasin's Creed?

  • TheUnionFrag #10 5 years ago

    I want in! EndWar looks to be the best RTS and even TC game for a while.

    I do seriously want psychic controls for an RTS though. That would be the ultimate in laziness. Then again - my heart still has to pump blood to my brain to keep it running. I want to stop my heart for uber-lazy gaming . . . oh wait! NO! . . . *gurk*