{"id":1647,"date":"2009-07-23T10:25:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2009-07-23T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T15:25:29","slug":"endwar-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/23\/endwar-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"EndWar Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamer.com\/news\/ubisoft_shanghai_working_on_endwar_sequel.html\">Videogamer.com is reporting that Ubisoft Shanghai has been tapped<\/a> to do a sequel to last year&#8217;s best console RTS, <em>EndWar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis will be on the single player story experience and adding some depth to a game that some people found too shallow. Still no hint on when we can expect it, or even what it will be called.<\/p>\n<p>Lead designer Michael de Plater also reveals a little info on just how well <em>EndWar<\/em> did in the sales department:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Compared to strategy games it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really successful. We beat C&#038;C on our first go out. We were up there and not far off Halo Wars, which is obviously a big license. We beat just about everything \u00e2\u20ac\u201c everything except Halo \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for the last three years that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s come out. For a strategy game that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a huge success. For a console game that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not such a big success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So either strategy gamers aren&#8217;t migrating to consoles or console gamers aren&#8217;t figuring out that there are strategy games they can play. I wouldn&#8217;t have expected <em>EndWar<\/em> to beat <em>Halo Wars<\/em>, but you never want to read &#8220;not such a big success&#8221; from a game designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videogamer.com is reporting that Ubisoft Shanghai has been tapped to do a sequel to last year&#8217;s best console RTS, EndWar. The emphasis will be on the single player story experience and adding some depth to a game that some people found too shallow. Still no hint on when we can expect it, or even what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74,41,132],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-qz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}