Just Interesting: RULE

A recently Kickstarter funded MMORTS that is simple in concept and execution: the world is your battlefield. There is a demo on their website.

First Impressions: Tom Clancy's EndWar

Tom Clancy's EndWar is unique in that one can use voice commands to lead units into battle. There are three modern factions going for a world war caused by terrorist attacks on an anti-nuclear shield: America, Europe, and Russia.

The voice command interface actually works a lot better than I expected it to. That said, there are some things that I felt were missing and had to correct with the mouse. Things like having no voice command to get your units, especially infantry, into nearby cover or to garrison buildings. However, those are minor grievances. Everything else seems to work well so far.

Check it out here for Steam (Tom Clancy's EndWar) and support this blog!

What Never Was: End of Nations

End of Nations promised a truly massively multiplayer online RTS game. It was a game I was excited for, even though I knew my PC at the time couldn't run it.

The backstory and setting of the world had some undertones of Biblical Antichrist world government end time shenanigans. You played as one of the many groups trying to take it out.

Unfortunately, it was first turned into a MOBA game and then got totally canceled after some layoffs.

This is one game, both in concept and in essence, I hope someone resurrects.