Don't mind me, just gonna necro this comment briefly >:D But for a valid reason. You covered the cossacks games, but I challenge you to try some of the spin-off games, namely two which come to mind, American Conquest (Fairly certain the beginning of the morale system for cossacks 2, though make a note of the cavalry because they're absurd) and the main reason I want you to make it, Heroes of annihilated empires. A fantasy cossacks with an rpg system which is amazingly unfinished somehow. Take a look at them, because they're both scuffed as hell and I love them immensely
yet also somehow predicting some current events lol, it makes it relatable. Being Ukrainian it's really fun to destroy russians and capture moscow and get back Crimea xd
@@marsdriver2501 Kind of your own fault though. You did everything possible to provoke the war. The U.S. propaganda machine does its best to obscure that fact (that’s what they wanted you to do anyways) but it’s obvious for anyone with a brain. Good luck getting destroyed.
Excuse me, half of the plot came true, america did infact create a space force. Ww3 is almost on the brink, and european union is on its way to creating its own army. Tom Clancy did believe, as it was common at the time, that oil will run out in the fututre causing massive competition for whats left of it, this was obviously all a lie. But back then, everyone believed it, kinda like covid.
"Tom Clancy...writing..." It was written by a ghost writer and if you look deeper the ghost writer himself is a pseudonym for Ubisoft's writing department. They can write anything in the Tom Clancy name if they use that ghost writer author name.
Voice command is perfect for this game. Especially when you have the mobile command vehicle. You get to use the strep map. While in that sitrep map you can free roam the map. voice command is perfect when you can see the whole map in sitrep. It makes you feel like a commander in the field. I will love this game forever!!!! Plus the upgrades you can buy for the units are super awesome
I played this on xbox360 (never on PC) when i was a bout 10, the voice commands made it so accessible to console players, this was ultimately the game that got me into RTS games as a whole, before getting a PC and play the True Master Race Games
My guy. Thank you for making this. I was the top ranked Euro faction player on the xbox 360 and god damn did I peak in high school. Nothing quite like the days of going up against KidSoulja and k1ck1str0m and going blow for blow with guerilla warfare against their overpowered American troops. The theatre of war mode would get stuck for like 2 weeks going back and forth on the same maps cuz none of the factions could push their frontlines. I still have two very strong memories that stick with me. The first was a 2 hour slugfest of a 2v2 against the top-ranked Russians on Reagan Seabase. And the other I still remember my unconventional strategy for defending Paris which involved triggering defcon within 7 minutes of start and Airstrike level 2 on Alpha and MLRS on Bravo to destroy them and prevent the attacker from using airstrikes or EMPs (force recon was pretty rarely used in online). God Damn I could cry from the nostalgia. I loved it so much I made my own retrospective video on my channel and it's gotten more views in a week than this has in over a year. I have Scav to thank for inspiring me to make my video from my perspective. And for sharing it to his community to help it gain traction.
i think i beat all three campaigns on this on Xbox 360, was definitely one of the most natural feeling RTS games I've tried the restricted pov and the voice command menu (i had no mic but realised a while in the voice command text menu was a better way to order men around) mixed with the limited viewpoints to what your men can see and good minimap (to use a classic funny phrase) really made you feel like a general in a way classic RTS didn't the aesthetic was great too, I'd lose more than one battle just looking at all the animations of what my men were doing in their fanciful near-future space guy armor and the Russians with their random assortments of gasmasks like they're stalkers lol it's a pretty dumb game story and gameplay wise and will probably give anyone actually into pc rts fans a fit of rage, but yeah, there was nothing else like this on console
The plot has always reminded me of Red Storm Rising if they scooped out all the poorly written characters muddling through awkward interpersonal stuff and turned it into a three-way battle royale instead of NATO vs the USSR.
My favorite memories from this game were putting rocket infantry in a building as a defense line by a bridge, manually controlling about two units in the desert while using my voice to move the rest of them to places outside of my primary units' visible range, and mildly upgrading some of the units in my army by taking different parts of the world map. Other than that I had a lot of the same thoughts. I wanted a sequel, or just a whole other game to incorporate the few features I found really neat. Also the near future WWIII scenario is a fun (game) premise for a strategy/rts game. Really dropped the ball with the story side of things. Could have been current world, or alt history like how Tanya the Evil is just WWI but if some magic stuff also existed
15:17 The Dutch actually have somewhat of a valid reason given the US have laws on the books for an invasion of the Hague (American Service-Members' Protection Act) if a US citizen is ever charged for war crimes
“2009, when I was 8 or 9” yeah just put me on the ice floe and float me out to sea with the rest of the senior citizens. It’s time Anyway, great video! I was randomly searching endwar to see if there were any vids about it, it’s one of my favourite old RTSes. Never expected to see a 42 min review of it from a couple months ago. Well done bud, keep putting out the vids
I played the PC RTS quite a bit and enjoyed it, but as shared by other fellow comments who played this when the online TOW was active. That mode was everything and something I can't stop talking about. The campaign version is less fun as the missions are scripted to go a certain way. Online had so many variations of tactics players used. With those tactics changing if you played singles, doubles, or quads. As it allowed different unit management and speed of controlling units. Yeah quads was a little boring when you only controlled 3 units(ugh). But it worked if you just wanted to play with more friends. The map view limited to your units required you to be patient and take calculated risks based on limited field knowledge. You could send a chopper out there to scout. But now you can't use a transport to move your rifleman to that risky uplink. Upgrading your battalion online also meant much more. Later turns in the war meant you had to make tactical decisions on who should be getting training or in other situations sacrificing a legendary unit to win a battle. Which could help your faction win the map for the day. The pyramid combat chain is "basic". But once you start upgrading your battalion it can change the chain. Allowing some Russian tanks to win vs euro gunships. Or JSF gunships to win versus transports. Etc. Upgrading riflemen to be anti armor and super effective in cover meant they could hold their own if high ranked. They could also run in stealth when upgraded so you would need to pay attention to your units and watch for sneaky flanks. Needless to say online was much much more dynamic. The community was very active in development of an API that trackedive win/loss on matches every day. So as a player you would know which maps were good training maps and didn't matter if you lost. Or if you went after closely contested maps close to the cease fire to try to flip or protect the lead. I have thought about building my own version of this game in UE4/5. BUT with the years of knowledge of what could improve. Even if it's a weird fast paced turn based game, it's infinitely better than the "sequel" that got put out as an abomination. I have been preaching for years tho that Battlefield should develop their own TOW. With all the maps they have in the catalog, they could build out quite the experience.
The amount of Nostalgia that nuked me when I saw the name of this title pop up on my revisit to the Tom Clancy games of the past… is insane. THIS GAME was something that made me tear up happily
Dang I was watching the troops move around with the camera following right behind them and it reminded me a full spectrum warrior and you immediately transitioned to talking about that game. I've never heard anyone else reference that game before.
I already read the book as a kid since I saw it in the store for $8 and my mom liked the idea of getting me to read a book for once. It wasn't very interesting. It wasn't written by Tom Clancy so you'd half expect them to take the liberty to not be too character oriented and tell the broader narrative better, but instead it reads like a bad imitation of Tom Clancy and doesn't really give much depth to the narrative, instead focusing on characters who aren't really important. I might re read it as an adult now and see if my child opinions were correct but my memory doesn't say nice things about the book and only the ending really stuck out to me because it has a sex scene. It wasn't more explicit than what you could put on TV in the mid 2000s but it is a far cry from the game's content and from what I would associate with the tone of a world war three novel. In a word, I would've described the book as inconsequential. I wasn't a good reader as a kid but Clancy's books were much better, even though they were twice as long.
@@Steven-cf1ty Yeah I think the only Tom Clancy games that were anywhere near remotely based off of any of his books was Rainbow Six which is bizarre. His name is merely a brand completely divorced from anything he's actually worked on himself. If you look up "Splinter Cell books," or "Ghost Recon books," it's all written by different authors after the games were all released.
As a Brit, I so badly wanted to play the "The New Commonwealth" faction with Australia. I wish there was a proper DLC. When I was 16 when it came out, I reached world rank 10th for this game for CooP. My team mate was ace. (The Greatest tactics I learnt was; 1, Set up a balanced Front line. 2, Purposely drain your enemy reinforcement counter, don't go for the killing blow. 3, Perfect timing of the rock paper scissors. 4, Never underestimate Electronic warfare. 5, engineers and artillery is a match made in heaven.) Oh Finally the siege game mode is super hard!
I definitely preferred playing doubles and occasionally quads in the theater of war. Occasionally would dabble in singles. My greatest lesson was... Never use the voice commands when calling in a WMD HAHA. Too many times I would forget and wipe my own units at an uplink the game "thought it heard"
Yea, it's appears that the story got scarped early on and remade because we have voice lines for the Forgettion Army...yet they are only present in the tutorial/prologue.
There was no Forgotten Army,it was a Russian hoax created by the Kremlin to be able to attack EU and American targets without declaring war prematurely,they could blame the terrorists for attacking and hacking the uplinks until it was too late for the Eu to do anything about it. I will admit there seemed to be a story line focused around one man,as shown in the trailer the dude hooked up to oxygen seemed to be of importance but never seen again. Honestly it works better as just a pure RTS royale game,give a simple story to set up the conditions and factions and focus on the gameplay and thought required to win. General Amadou Bankole was my favorite voiceover,just the perfect accent for an EU leader.
While the game might had been a horrible RTS, it is also what got me into RTSes. I found the very light RTS elements that It had to be great at easing me into the genre.
Found my copy of the book "EndWar The Missing." It's 400 pages, has three protagonists with semi distinct plots that mostly wind together (2 Americans and a Russian defecting to America, not much on the Europeans in the book iirc), and the whole thing is just as uninteresting and unimportant as you'd imagine. About the same quality of writing as those romance novels middle aged women read but for young men who pretend to like military stuff.
While I agree that this game doesn't compare to computer RTS games of the same period, End wars single player campaigns was not its definitive experience. The entire game was built around its persistent multiplayer mode theater of war. The world map was the same as the single player campaign but each day the factions battled it out to win a node and push the front. Your units were persistent so you were stuck with one faction and if they were killed they lost veteran bonuses and abilities. This made for interesting and brutal tactics, like using abilities like air strikes to kill units to weaken opponents for the war at the expense of winning battles. Abilities like air support were dependent on controlling and defending air bases making for interesting campaign choices. You were also able to play in 4v4 matches.
The command vehicle unlocks a more traditional view of the map, where you're not forced to just play with the weird 3rd person camera over units. I always played with the command vehicle back in the day, simply because it gave me a better view of the battlefield.
Still play this game. It has some great battle moments. Especially when you spam force recon at the enemy to break trough their lines and apply preasure.
I played this game at my 16 Years old back in 2009. Was my first game downloaded 🇸🇴 I remember played in my old Athlon X2 3gb ram and a geforce 9500. For that time i think was a good game but pretty simplistic. Later played World In Conflict. And MAN that was a Excelent RTS. Still waiting World in Conflict 2. Btw world in Conflict wasn't made by Ubisoft. Yeah Massive is now a Studio from Ubisoft but back then was Part of Sierra. It's not after WiC Soviet Assault that Ubisoft bought Massive.
I'm more of a shooter fan, myself. However, Endwar is one of the best Tom Clancy titles ever. In my books, one of the highest ranking TC games, along with games like Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and Ghost Recon Future Soldier.
As cursed as it sounds, I have End War for the PSP, which is completely different. It's a turned-based strategy game with a different story. And the maps are all hex grids. There are naval, air, and land forces and you have move and attack phases. Unironically it's better than the console/pc version. Story is less hectic, the units attack and defense values are more fleshed out so at infantry is actually useful against armor and helicopters, can kill jets but only when full squad and you'll lose most of that squad. Also your units can rank up the more kills it gets. Getting a max level cruiser or carrier on a map that is mostly water is just game over for he enemy ai. You can even make your own maps and scenarios. For the $14.99 (this was back in like 09) it was a good buy in my opinion.
It was the first RTS game i played and I loved it. My first cd got scratched so i bought another. Still have the cd and played it on my xbox one which i kept solely for the game.
I to THIS DAY still play the living shit out of this game, every faction every difficulty every way possible i have beaten this game and still love it as much as i did playing it as a kid 11/10 game i recommend 1000 percent ❤❤
I miss this game so god damn much, i was a top ten globally ranked player on Xbox 360 my gamertag back then was XININJABURRITOIX #7 World and #3 US when the theatre of war was still active. Shout out if you remember getting battallion wiped
Ha. I don't know if we crossed paths. I usually played doubles and quads. Dabbled a little bit in singles. My GT was TheBMT. Really only played JSF. But it was absolutely glorious to battalion wipe in a hard fought war cycle. So many emp + MOABs. Playing up to the cease fire basically every night.
I really enjoyed EW (Xbox) back in the day in the day. Played PC RTS’s like StarCraft, but EW was simple and immersive thanks to the voice feature. The story was simple and odd, but at a certain point, has to go in a direction so that the game happens. Realistic future events are really tough to predict, and the one thing only a fool, says is “oh that would never happen”. For an Xbox game from 2008, it wasn’t bad. Might actually fired it up again.
In the ENDWAR book, the US and EF actually figured out it was the Russians all along, and jointly declared war. But the EF is too weak to halt the advance of the invading Russians and they make it all the way to Paris. This is illustrated in the trailer with former Ghost Recon soldier Paul Smith dropping the kinetic strike on himself in Paris. This is actually mentioned in the book. And interestingly enough, the forgotten army does not exist in the books. Instead it was a bunch of environmental terrorists funded by the Russians. Also the Russians invade Canada to cut off America from its supply of shale oil.
Brilliant game. All the little details, for example if you played the American side the air support was the HAWX fighters. Ghost recons Scott Mitchell was the US general or something. Was cool to see all these things whenever i played them all around the same time.
The fantastic think about this game is fact that to play OFFLINE skirmish match you need to connect servers first which are dead now meaning you basically can’t play this game Yet you can still buy it Who ever made this genius idea is truly a most genius man in the history
@@HalTheBot so you can play offline? If so show me how because I would really like to play skirmish match with bots but when I try to chose skirmish it stars connecting to servers which are dead and then you are stuck in endless limbo of loading And I know you can play campaign but it’s not the same thing
@@helikopterbojowyka-5234 select profile > skirmish > single player. straight to the LAN game lobby. if you're having issues then i genuinely don't know what the problem could be.
I’ve thought about this game for many years. I remember playing it while I was wayyy too young to know what was going on, and I did think I was watching a cutscene a lot of the time. Somehow i managed to get pretty far into the game and that should say a lot about the combat and strategy in this game. But I’m excited to play this again just for nostalgia.
I was there at the beginning on xbox. The multiplayer was intense and the factions unbalanced. It was amazing. Its been 15 years since that game was popping off. Man I'm getting old.
I only played this game on the xbox 360 back in the day and I really enjoyed it! I loved using the voice commands, so I think they should have maybe kept it on console only OR optimized it more for the PC.
Nice video, you taught me a lot about the damage timer😂 Voice command Sitrep Will give you an overhead view of the battlefield while you have a command vehicle.
So I actually loved the stuck camera on PC. It was both immersive for me and it also differentiated EndWar from many other RTS' games where you are looking at the map from 10 kilometers and just push symbols down there. Yes, this applies to some degree to World in Conflict as well. EndWar actually justified being 3D for me. I'd also argue the rock/paper/scissors system was fine, since we also had infantry and artillery and abilities to spice it up. If anything, it only stopped making sense in late game when experience made some units "invulnerable" to it, like when Russian tanks started flamethrowing the choppers down... Shame the campaign was short and the story was lobotomised. Glad to find your video nevertheless!
Actually the PC port has LESS content because they removed things like hidden bonus brigades you could unlock ,etc. ALSO THERE IS FREE CAMERA ON PC! Its a bit counterintuitive but you can unlock camera from units and freely give out orders. Also some of the upgrades break the the regular counters between units if only on a limited basis per unit like one of the IFVs gets anti tank weapons that have long reload but allow it to almost even out the playing field vs tanks if they get it off first. Funny enough end war was not nearly the first RTS with voice comms , just off the top of my head "will of steel" another forgotten RTS beat it by like 3 years
The one thing they could have done to really keep this game alive would have been to fix matchmaking. If you could play a 2v3 or even a 1v3, it would have been fine. But in the end, I couldn’t get anymore matches because a team would be short a player.
Played it, Loved it, MISS it, and idgaf WHAT you guys think, THIS game was ahead of its time. Not sure where it went when it went down cause i never had an issue getting into matches in Theater Of War
17:00 That happened not once... but twice. In 1987 king hippie Mathias Rust straight up flew his plane to and landed in Moscow. After the Soviet Union collapsed the US launched a missile and entered Russian waters. It (intentionally) crashed into the ocean before the Russians freaked out too hard. It was a weather data collector, and the US had told Russia beforehand, and the Russians literally just forgot. And then there was the time the Chinese sent that weather balloon over the US.
Oh man this was my childhood game I love the video. Downside that it has it's still pretty fun I don't have it on PC yet just the 360. Can I get it next time when it's on sale I don't know
I actually find the unrestricted camera in modern RTS unimmersive so I'm waiting for something with Endwar's camera system to make a comeback. I'm saying this as a Wargame and WARNO player plus an Eugen fanboy. I think Eugen games can also do restricted camera well, just don't lock it on units because that movement can be nauseous.
i had this game on xbox 360 as a kid, i played the hell out of it, the first skirmish i ever played in the game was on some desert map with castles and then i was never able to find that map ever again lmao, i dont know why i couldnt find it, i was probably just retarted
16:30 A good choice. I didn’t actually know there was a third book, but the two I did read were just AWFUL. The first was incredibly boring while the second descended into insane conspiracy territory.
Your argument about the combat system shows you have not actually played the game properly in pvp, thats all I have to say. I have played loads of games on PC RTS, I played this game after having PC RTS games as a teenager. You oversimplify what you are able to do within the confines of the mechanic you describe. Seems more like a skill issue then a design one. Don't hate the player but hate the game. Only complain with the game is that when nearing the end and reinforcements get low there is not enough room to turn the tables, you could call it realistic or a flaw in design. After a x ammount of engagements on side will have to retreat so no crazy comebacks on that part. Before that there is enough room for strategy. Every RTS in its core relies on rock - paper scissor mechanic, maybe adding extra element here and there.
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Don't mind me, just gonna necro this comment briefly >:D But for a valid reason. You covered the cossacks games, but I challenge you to try some of the spin-off games, namely two which come to mind, American Conquest (Fairly certain the beginning of the morale system for cossacks 2, though make a note of the cavalry because they're absurd) and the main reason I want you to make it, Heroes of annihilated empires. A fantasy cossacks with an rpg system which is amazingly unfinished somehow. Take a look at them, because they're both scuffed as hell and I love them immensely
Also props to Tom Clancy for writing a Plot that makes less sense than Red Alerts while still taking itself serious.
yet also somehow predicting some current events lol, it makes it relatable. Being Ukrainian it's really fun to destroy russians and capture moscow and get back Crimea xd
@@marsdriver2501 Kind of your own fault though. You did everything possible to provoke the war. The U.S. propaganda machine does its best to obscure that fact (that’s what they wanted you to do anyways) but it’s obvious for anyone with a brain. Good luck getting destroyed.
@@arminius504Yeah, how dare Ukraine resist instead of giving up and get slaughtered? Tsk tsk
Excuse me, half of the plot came true, america did infact create a space force. Ww3 is almost on the brink, and european union is on its way to creating its own army. Tom Clancy did believe, as it was common at the time, that oil will run out in the fututre causing massive competition for whats left of it, this was obviously all a lie. But back then, everyone believed it, kinda like covid.
"Tom Clancy...writing..." It was written by a ghost writer and if you look deeper the ghost writer himself is a pseudonym for Ubisoft's writing department. They can write anything in the Tom Clancy name if they use that ghost writer author name.
Wouldnt call ir forgotten though. Its the kind of game i always play one every 2 years just to remind myself of the good old times.
Exactly the same with me.
Where do u play it bcz i need a remaster for ps4
@@cloticsyko7901 remaster haha... All you can get is the OG
@@cloticsyko7901 It's on Ubisoft+, Steam, and GOG. Not on PS4, or any newer consoles.
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Voice command is perfect for this game. Especially when you have the mobile command vehicle. You get to use the strep map. While in that sitrep map you can free roam the map. voice command is perfect when you can see the whole map in sitrep. It makes you feel like a commander in the field. I will love this game forever!!!! Plus the upgrades you can buy for the units are super awesome
On what plattforms can you play it on?
@@thejoker8451 I normally play it on Steam, the single-player campaign is still playable.
End war was a gem. Thats why i searched out this video. A game i played years ago popped into my head in 2023. I miss it.
Broken arrow is an amazing successor. I been playing the beta and it's so good.
Same here, used to play this game on my 360 as a kid
I played this on xbox360 (never on PC) when i was a bout 10, the voice commands made it so accessible to console players, this was ultimately the game that got me into RTS games as a whole, before getting a PC and play the True Master Race Games
My guy. Thank you for making this. I was the top ranked Euro faction player on the xbox 360 and god damn did I peak in high school. Nothing quite like the days of going up against KidSoulja and k1ck1str0m and going blow for blow with guerilla warfare against their overpowered American troops. The theatre of war mode would get stuck for like 2 weeks going back and forth on the same maps cuz none of the factions could push their frontlines. I still have two very strong memories that stick with me. The first was a 2 hour slugfest of a 2v2 against the top-ranked Russians on Reagan Seabase. And the other I still remember my unconventional strategy for defending Paris which involved triggering defcon within 7 minutes of start and Airstrike level 2 on Alpha and MLRS on Bravo to destroy them and prevent the attacker from using airstrikes or EMPs (force recon was pretty rarely used in online). God Damn I could cry from the nostalgia. I loved it so much I made my own retrospective video on my channel and it's gotten more views in a week than this has in over a year.
I have Scav to thank for inspiring me to make my video from my perspective. And for sharing it to his community to help it gain traction.
That was a great video, loved the Midway one that just cam out as well!
i think i beat all three campaigns on this on Xbox 360, was definitely one of the most natural feeling RTS games I've tried
the restricted pov and the voice command menu (i had no mic but realised a while in the voice command text menu was a better way to order men around) mixed with the limited viewpoints to what your men can see and good minimap (to use a classic funny phrase) really made you feel like a general in a way classic RTS didn't
the aesthetic was great too, I'd lose more than one battle just looking at all the animations of what my men were doing in their fanciful near-future space guy armor and the Russians with their random assortments of gasmasks like they're stalkers lol
it's a pretty dumb game story and gameplay wise and will probably give anyone actually into pc rts fans a fit of rage, but yeah, there was nothing else like this on console
I really enjoyed my time with this game, yeah there are better RTS's out there but it's good for the cheap price you can get for it
The plot has always reminded me of Red Storm Rising if they scooped out all the poorly written characters muddling through awkward interpersonal stuff and turned it into a three-way battle royale instead of NATO vs the USSR.
My favorite memories from this game were putting rocket infantry in a building as a defense line by a bridge, manually controlling about two units in the desert while using my voice to move the rest of them to places outside of my primary units' visible range, and mildly upgrading some of the units in my army by taking different parts of the world map.
Other than that I had a lot of the same thoughts. I wanted a sequel, or just a whole other game to incorporate the few features I found really neat. Also the near future WWIII scenario is a fun (game) premise for a strategy/rts game. Really dropped the ball with the story side of things. Could have been current world, or alt history like how Tanya the Evil is just WWI but if some magic stuff also existed
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15:17 The Dutch actually have somewhat of a valid reason given the US have laws on the books for an invasion of the Hague (American Service-Members' Protection Act) if a US citizen is ever charged for war crimes
Murricans are a menace.
“2009, when I was 8 or 9” yeah just put me on the ice floe and float me out to sea with the rest of the senior citizens. It’s time
Anyway, great video! I was randomly searching endwar to see if there were any vids about it, it’s one of my favourite old RTSes. Never expected to see a 42 min review of it from a couple months ago. Well done bud, keep putting out the vids
I played the PC RTS quite a bit and enjoyed it, but as shared by other fellow comments who played this when the online TOW was active. That mode was everything and something I can't stop talking about. The campaign version is less fun as the missions are scripted to go a certain way. Online had so many variations of tactics players used. With those tactics changing if you played singles, doubles, or quads. As it allowed different unit management and speed of controlling units. Yeah quads was a little boring when you only controlled 3 units(ugh). But it worked if you just wanted to play with more friends. The map view limited to your units required you to be patient and take calculated risks based on limited field knowledge. You could send a chopper out there to scout. But now you can't use a transport to move your rifleman to that risky uplink.
Upgrading your battalion online also meant much more. Later turns in the war meant you had to make tactical decisions on who should be getting training or in other situations sacrificing a legendary unit to win a battle. Which could help your faction win the map for the day.
The pyramid combat chain is "basic". But once you start upgrading your battalion it can change the chain. Allowing some Russian tanks to win vs euro gunships. Or JSF gunships to win versus transports. Etc. Upgrading riflemen to be anti armor and super effective in cover meant they could hold their own if high ranked. They could also run in stealth when upgraded so you would need to pay attention to your units and watch for sneaky flanks. Needless to say online was much much more dynamic. The community was very active in development of an API that trackedive win/loss on matches every day. So as a player you would know which maps were good training maps and didn't matter if you lost. Or if you went after closely contested maps close to the cease fire to try to flip or protect the lead.
I have thought about building my own version of this game in UE4/5. BUT with the years of knowledge of what could improve. Even if it's a weird fast paced turn based game, it's infinitely better than the "sequel" that got put out as an abomination.
I have been preaching for years tho that Battlefield should develop their own TOW. With all the maps they have in the catalog, they could build out quite the experience.
The amount of Nostalgia that nuked me when I saw the name of this title pop up on my revisit to the Tom Clancy games of the past… is insane.
THIS GAME was something that made me tear up happily
Dang I was watching the troops move around with the camera following right behind them and it reminded me a full spectrum warrior and you immediately transitioned to talking about that game. I've never heard anyone else reference that game before.
Scavs goofie face is looking straight at me every video and i was still shocked to see him in all his glory.
If no one else will do it, then I must take the burden upon myself.
I... will read the EndWar books.
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@@scavmerchanthub I HAVE TO DO IT FOR THE LORE! IT’S THE ONLY WAY!
Oh yeah right I totally forgot this game is based on the book.
You know what I am going to buy and read it as well.
I already read the book as a kid since I saw it in the store for $8 and my mom liked the idea of getting me to read a book for once. It wasn't very interesting. It wasn't written by Tom Clancy so you'd half expect them to take the liberty to not be too character oriented and tell the broader narrative better, but instead it reads like a bad imitation of Tom Clancy and doesn't really give much depth to the narrative, instead focusing on characters who aren't really important. I might re read it as an adult now and see if my child opinions were correct but my memory doesn't say nice things about the book and only the ending really stuck out to me because it has a sex scene. It wasn't more explicit than what you could put on TV in the mid 2000s but it is a far cry from the game's content and from what I would associate with the tone of a world war three novel. In a word, I would've described the book as inconsequential. I wasn't a good reader as a kid but Clancy's books were much better, even though they were twice as long.
@@Steven-cf1ty Yeah I think the only Tom Clancy games that were anywhere near remotely based off of any of his books was Rainbow Six which is bizarre. His name is merely a brand completely divorced from anything he's actually worked on himself.
If you look up "Splinter Cell books," or "Ghost Recon books," it's all written by different authors after the games were all released.
I have played the PSP port for a while and it always surprises me how incredibly different it is from all the other versions.
It's more like Advance Wars but move and attack turns are separate so both sides can move at the same turn and attack after moving
As a Brit, I so badly wanted to play the "The New Commonwealth" faction with Australia. I wish there was a proper DLC.
When I was 16 when it came out, I reached world rank 10th for this game for CooP. My team mate was ace. (The Greatest tactics I learnt was; 1, Set up a balanced Front line. 2, Purposely drain your enemy reinforcement counter, don't go for the killing blow. 3, Perfect timing of the rock paper scissors. 4, Never underestimate Electronic warfare. 5, engineers and artillery is a match made in heaven.) Oh Finally the siege game mode is super hard!
I definitely preferred playing doubles and occasionally quads in the theater of war. Occasionally would dabble in singles.
My greatest lesson was... Never use the voice commands when calling in a WMD HAHA. Too many times I would forget and wipe my own units at an uplink the game "thought it heard"
The New Commonwealth accepted EU bases and armies on its territory (and it's mostly uk and Ireland)
Yea, it's appears that the story got scarped early on and remade because we have voice lines for the Forgettion Army...yet they are only present in the tutorial/prologue.
There was no Forgotten Army,it was a Russian hoax created by the Kremlin to be able to attack EU and American targets without declaring war prematurely,they could blame the terrorists for attacking and hacking the uplinks until it was too late for the Eu to do anything about it.
I will admit there seemed to be a story line focused around one man,as shown in the trailer the dude hooked up to oxygen seemed to be of importance but never seen again.
Honestly it works better as just a pure RTS royale game,give a simple story to set up the conditions and factions and focus on the gameplay and thought required to win.
General Amadou Bankole was my favorite voiceover,just the perfect accent for an EU leader.
While the game might had been a horrible RTS, it is also what got me into RTSes. I found the very light RTS elements that It had to be great at easing me into the genre.
Excellent as always. Can't wait for the next episode!
Found my copy of the book "EndWar The Missing." It's 400 pages, has three protagonists with semi distinct plots that mostly wind together (2 Americans and a Russian defecting to America, not much on the Europeans in the book iirc), and the whole thing is just as uninteresting and unimportant as you'd imagine. About the same quality of writing as those romance novels middle aged women read but for young men who pretend to like military stuff.
While I agree that this game doesn't compare to computer RTS games of the same period, End wars single player campaigns was not its definitive experience. The entire game was built around its persistent multiplayer mode theater of war. The world map was the same as the single player campaign but each day the factions battled it out to win a node and push the front. Your units were persistent so you were stuck with one faction and if they were killed they lost veteran bonuses and abilities. This made for interesting and brutal tactics, like using abilities like air strikes to kill units to weaken opponents for the war at the expense of winning battles. Abilities like air support were dependent on controlling and defending air bases making for interesting campaign choices. You were also able to play in 4v4 matches.
Exactly. The online TOW was everything. Brutal at times, but worth it.
The command vehicle unlocks a more traditional view of the map, where you're not forced to just play with the weird 3rd person camera over units. I always played with the command vehicle back in the day, simply because it gave me a better view of the battlefield.
Still play this game. It has some great battle moments. Especially when you spam force recon at the enemy to break trough their lines and apply preasure.
I played this game at my 16 Years old back in 2009. Was my first game downloaded 🇸🇴 I remember played in my old Athlon X2 3gb ram and a geforce 9500. For that time i think was a good game but pretty simplistic.
Later played World In Conflict. And MAN that was a Excelent RTS. Still waiting World in Conflict 2.
Btw world in Conflict wasn't made by Ubisoft. Yeah Massive is now a Studio from Ubisoft but back then was Part of Sierra.
It's not after WiC Soviet Assault that Ubisoft bought Massive.
I still play it to this day in my Series X. Sad that I never got an opportunity to experience the online play when I was a kid on my 360 :(
I love this game so much. Made my childhoood along with other ubisoft titles like ruse
I was really surprised he didn't refer to Ruse as the console successor to Endwar. So many players I played with migrated to that game.
I thought the camera being stuck to a unit was immersive because it simulated the fog of war irl.
I'm more of a shooter fan, myself. However, Endwar is one of the best Tom Clancy titles ever. In my books, one of the highest ranking TC games, along with games like Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and Ghost Recon Future Soldier.
As cursed as it sounds, I have End War for the PSP, which is completely different. It's a turned-based strategy game with a different story. And the maps are all hex grids. There are naval, air, and land forces and you have move and attack phases. Unironically it's better than the console/pc version. Story is less hectic, the units attack and defense values are more fleshed out so at infantry is actually useful against armor and helicopters, can kill jets but only when full squad and you'll lose most of that squad. Also your units can rank up the more kills it gets. Getting a max level cruiser or carrier on a map that is mostly water is just game over for he enemy ai. You can even make your own maps and scenarios. For the $14.99 (this was back in like 09) it was a good buy in my opinion.
It was the first RTS game i played and I loved it. My first cd got scratched so i bought another. Still have the cd and played it on my xbox one which i kept solely for the game.
I to THIS DAY still play the living shit out of this game, every faction every difficulty every way possible i have beaten this game and still love it as much as i did playing it as a kid 11/10 game i recommend 1000 percent ❤❤
I miss this game so god damn much, i was a top ten globally ranked player on Xbox 360 my gamertag back then was XININJABURRITOIX #7 World and #3 US when the theatre of war was still active.
Shout out if you remember getting battallion wiped
U will be put in your place come get smacked on endwar
Ha. I don't know if we crossed paths. I usually played doubles and quads. Dabbled a little bit in singles. My GT was TheBMT. Really only played JSF.
But it was absolutely glorious to battalion wipe in a hard fought war cycle. So many emp + MOABs. Playing up to the cease fire basically every night.
I remember you. I was the top euro faction player. Damn what a throwback. I feel like we were friends on Xbox live at one point.
I really enjoyed EW (Xbox) back in the day in the day. Played PC RTS’s like StarCraft, but EW was simple and immersive thanks to the voice feature.
The story was simple and odd, but at a certain point, has to go in a direction so that the game happens. Realistic future events are really tough to predict, and the one thing only a fool, says is “oh that would never happen”.
For an Xbox game from 2008, it wasn’t bad. Might actually fired it up again.
Damn blame this all on Seth
i still play this game, its amazing.
where can i download it from on my pc
In the ENDWAR book, the US and EF actually figured out it was the Russians all along, and jointly declared war. But the EF is too weak to halt the advance of the invading Russians and they make it all the way to Paris. This is illustrated in the trailer with former Ghost Recon soldier Paul Smith dropping the kinetic strike on himself in Paris. This is actually mentioned in the book. And interestingly enough, the forgotten army does not exist in the books. Instead it was a bunch of environmental terrorists funded by the Russians. Also the Russians invade Canada to cut off America from its supply of shale oil.
realizing that youtube poop ending was a real thing is quite the feeling.
Brilliant game. All the little details, for example if you played the American side the air support was the HAWX fighters. Ghost recons Scott Mitchell was the US general or something. Was cool to see all these things whenever i played them all around the same time.
Super high quality vid for such a low view/subscriber count. Hope you take off soon!
26:50 HEY! As an xbox player that voice commands helps out a lot!
I always thought the ubisoft shabghai double agent was pretty good, the second best after chaos theory imo
We need a sequel
The fantastic think about this game is fact that to play OFFLINE skirmish match you need to connect servers first
which are dead now meaning you basically can’t play this game
Yet you can still buy it
Who ever made this genius idea is truly a most genius man in the history
I like how this is blatant misinformation lmao
@@HalTheBot so you can play offline? If so show me how because I would really like to play skirmish match with bots but when I try to chose skirmish it stars connecting to servers which are dead and then you are stuck in endless limbo of loading
And I know you can play campaign but it’s not the same thing
@@helikopterbojowyka-5234 select profile > skirmish > single player. straight to the LAN game lobby. if you're having issues then i genuinely don't know what the problem could be.
I’ve thought about this game for many years. I remember playing it while I was wayyy too young to know what was going on, and I did think I was watching a cutscene a lot of the time. Somehow i managed to get pretty far into the game and that should say a lot about the combat and strategy in this game. But I’m excited to play this again just for nostalgia.
2:47 That map of Europe. What? How did I never notice that?
I was there at the beginning on xbox. The multiplayer was intense and the factions unbalanced. It was amazing. Its been 15 years since that game was popping off. Man I'm getting old.
I only played this game on the xbox 360 back in the day and I really enjoyed it! I loved using the voice commands, so I think they should have maybe kept it on console only OR optimized it more for the PC.
I love this game! I bought it like 10 years ago and always play a campaign every year or so
I grew up playing this game on console when i was a kid an i have such good memories on it I will always love this game
Nice video, you taught me a lot about the damage timer😂
Voice command Sitrep Will give you an overhead view of the battlefield while you have a command vehicle.
I just liked the cool way soldiers looked , moved , and felt.
Ah yes the old borders of the Warsaw pact
So I actually loved the stuck camera on PC. It was both immersive for me and it also differentiated EndWar from many other RTS' games where you are looking at the map from 10 kilometers and just push symbols down there. Yes, this applies to some degree to World in Conflict as well. EndWar actually justified being 3D for me.
I'd also argue the rock/paper/scissors system was fine, since we also had infantry and artillery and abilities to spice it up. If anything, it only stopped making sense in late game when experience made some units "invulnerable" to it, like when Russian tanks started flamethrowing the choppers down...
Shame the campaign was short and the story was lobotomised. Glad to find your video nevertheless!
I still play ENDWAR to this day my favorite WW3 game
Actually the PC port has LESS content because they removed things like hidden bonus brigades you could unlock ,etc. ALSO THERE IS FREE CAMERA ON PC! Its a bit counterintuitive but you can unlock camera from units and freely give out orders. Also some of the upgrades break the the regular counters between units if only on a limited basis per unit like one of the IFVs gets anti tank weapons that have long reload but allow it to almost even out the playing field vs tanks if they get it off first.
Funny enough end war was not nearly the first RTS with voice comms , just off the top of my head "will of steel" another forgotten RTS beat it by like 3 years
The one thing they could have done to really keep this game alive would have been to fix matchmaking. If you could play a 2v3 or even a 1v3, it would have been fine. But in the end, I couldn’t get anymore matches because a team would be short a player.
Played it, Loved it, MISS it, and idgaf WHAT you guys think, THIS game was ahead of its time. Not sure where it went when it went down cause i never had an issue getting into matches in Theater Of War
No joke, I remember loving the novel that was released beside this. It was just dumb fun for a teenager.
That creepy outro made it all worth it.
You should do a video on World in Conflict
I loved the voice command. I didn’t have online at my house for a long time and this gave me an excuse to use the mic my Xbox came with
I demand Full Spectrum review
The face reveal tho ??👀
I hope you tried the broken arrow demo, because it was awesome, and you might like it as you like wargame red dragon
Oh man, there is simply just not enough of us to enjoy this
17:00 That happened not once... but twice.
In 1987 king hippie Mathias Rust straight up flew his plane to and landed in Moscow.
After the Soviet Union collapsed the US launched a missile and entered Russian waters. It (intentionally) crashed into the ocean before the Russians freaked out too hard. It was a weather data collector, and the US had told Russia beforehand, and the Russians literally just forgot.
And then there was the time the Chinese sent that weather balloon over the US.
Hey hey people Sseth here xD
the warlord of the merchants guild has unlimited influence
@@danielcsengeri6785 got to shoutout the greats 😤
Oh man this was my childhood game I love the video. Downside that it has it's still pretty fun I don't have it on PC yet just the 360. Can I get it next time when it's on sale I don't know
full spectrum was so fun when my dad first found it and it confused me so much lol. wish they had improved on this it was a fun idea
22:08 *Starship Troopers’ Flashback*
I actually find the unrestricted camera in modern RTS unimmersive so I'm waiting for something with Endwar's camera system to make a comeback. I'm saying this as a Wargame and WARNO player plus an Eugen fanboy. I think Eugen games can also do restricted camera well, just don't lock it on units because that movement can be nauseous.
Hard to believe the promo video for ubi shanghai is real
Bruh why is this video not getting views
Jokes on you I have The Disc for this game!
i had this game on xbox 360 as a kid, i played the hell out of it, the first skirmish i ever played in the game was on some desert map with castles and then i was never able to find that map ever again lmao, i dont know why i couldnt find it, i was probably just retarted
I loved this game back in the day. Ashame console rts never caught on
To be honest, Russia's actions in this game are entirely consistent with orc thinking
I really do appreciate this game
16:30 A good choice. I didn’t actually know there was a third book, but the two I did read were just AWFUL. The first was incredibly boring while the second descended into insane conspiracy territory.
any recommendations for a good rts game. im dying for one.
I will definitely visit them one day.
I like how the "combat timer" thing is literal blatant misinformation.
Does Foxhole count as a Multiplayer game with RTS elements?
If only they could patch it's control to be like World in Conflict it might just be bareable
The words quality and Ubisoft haven't been spoken in the same sentence for their games in years lmao
Your argument about the combat system shows you have not actually played the game properly in pvp, thats all I have to say. I have played loads of games on PC RTS, I played this game after having PC RTS games as a teenager. You oversimplify what you are able to do within the confines of the mechanic you describe. Seems more like a skill issue then a design one. Don't hate the player but hate the game.
Only complain with the game is that when nearing the end and reinforcements get low there is not enough room to turn the tables, you could call it realistic or a flaw in design. After a x ammount of engagements on side will have to retreat so no crazy comebacks on that part. Before that there is enough room for strategy.
Every RTS in its core relies on rock - paper scissor mechanic, maybe adding extra element here and there.
One of the best games they should make this games as a app
I had forgotten about this game !!!!!!
2:39 London Racer 2 review when Mr Merchant man?
Fuck yeah scav nerchant hub uploaded
Yasss
Great video. But the opening is kinda weak. Police video was excellent in this regard. You were influenced by IH I must imagine. Anyway keep it up.
Finally have time to see this, lovely
I miss this game it was awesome
The most realistic thing is the French protesting.