Developer Ubisoft has revealed that it is currently developing a sequel to its RTS title Endwar.
A small team at Ubisoft Shanghai is busying themselves with the development of storyline and gameplay according to Ubisoft creative director Michael de Plater.
“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.” said de Plater.
“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.”
De Plater could not be drawn on a timeframe for the games release: “I couldn’t put a time on it. Basically the thing is stepping back and looking at, in particular those two issues that we can address, and wait and see.”
Endwar, which was release in late 2008, is a voice controlled RTS title which formed part of Ubisoft’s popular Tom Clancy range. It was released on all platforms and, according to de Plater it sold 1.5 million units which makes it, bar Halo wars, ““the biggest new RTS in the last four or five years”.
It currently retains a score of 77 on Metacritic.
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