(Tom Clancy's EndWar™)
For a game that I would think would be ahead of its time, I didn't think that in 2019, it would be a significant RTS game. For a game meant for consoles in 2008, it got its PC release in 2009 for the PC/Windows platform. And for a game like this to exist for a long time? It would mean that there was a big significance from its release. Could it have been thought of as a draft for future RTS games like XCOM? This is a question I still couldn't answer to this day. This game however, I can recommend against other RTS games that are sharper in its detail to this day like Company of Heroes and Hearts Of Iron.
Let's route right to the background story of this game... There are three factions in the fiction game world, each belonging to nations comprised of the United States of America, the European Union, and the Russian Federation. As to how the story would begin, it would be very typical...
The collapse of probably the world's most important oil resource rich in Middle Eastern nations because of very problematic terrorism rampancy in the same areas becomes noticeably apparent. The world's movement into finding resources becomes completely different since every nation dependent on oil would have to find other ways to obtain them. But in man's nature, it's always warfare that would be the final solution to obtain territory where these resources are available. This is one of the trigger points to how man's nature in preserving their culture becomes important, thus... modernization of weaponry and keeping the right alliances...
The chilling reality to seeking an end to nuclear war, is that there is another way to do damage. The Joint US-European Missile Shield prevents missiles as a deterrent, to act properly since every single one can be intercepted by the Missile Shield. This works as both a treaty, and an anti-nuclear missile system. This ends nuclear war at its best. But does it really stop corruption by nuclear warfare? It doesn't. Until there is uncertainty, there would always be ways to preserve culture, using your own fear to be dominant over the other.
Russia, as the remaining superior nation with the most amount of produced oil in the world begins an arms race which seeks to rival the weapons of the United States, and that of Europe. It wasn't just about protection of their resource that is the reason for why they started this arms race in the first place.
Europe itself having a bigger Gross National Product than that of the United States of America also had its own show of arms and development at this time of uncertainty...
And the United States' show of space superiority became apparent with their Military Space Station, the Freedom Star. This was being openly criticized by Europe since this would not only be physically be on par with the missile shield that the U.S. and Europe had put together, but the Freedom Star would also bypass the shield as well. This in turn forced Europe to leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in protest.
This is where the story would start to mold into a terrible beginning into World War 3 between the three sides. As to how it started, it was important to get the perspective of the three sides in a batch of prologue missions. From events that shaped from a terrorist group into attacking all sides...
...to a conspiracy that involved a European Prime Minister to be involved as the terrorist group's financier.
The U.S. and Europe are the first to get into tensions. But it was Russia, the last to be attacked by the group, to actually be the forerunner of the Forgotten Army (the terrorist group). They supplied the weapons as well as the tactics and existence of the Forgotten Army. And this same financing faction was also responsible for starting World War 3 by uploading a virus to the missile shield that by the same Freedom Star's new modules have been launched, the shuttle carrying both the modules and the newest staff to the station have been obliterated by the missile shield, seeing the final event of an explosion of the rocket and the shuttle that shocked everyone. Europe was blamed by the U.S. for the missile shield's malfunction or authorized attack against the Freedom Star, thus inciting war. Russia wasn't just sitting behind, since they also acted and declared war on the other two sides. Thus, this was the beginning of World War 3...
To tell why I liked this game from the beginning is not just because of its gameplay, but the story as well. It reflects on the entirety of the game and it does give advantage when it comes to how each unit of each faction reacts in terms of the war... thus giving uniqueness to how characters and vehicles are given roles in the overall game...
The reason why I'd recommend it is because there's flexibility in how your playstyle could be in the game. Because the player can either use the microphone or not.
If ya guys like to have more input from me about this game such as technicality and the modes that can be played, leave a comment below! I'm only putting this blog as a recommendation that you play the game. I had plenty of fun in the game and I was only making sure to put my head into how the game runs that I would learn how to play it. :) I'll be happy to include another post of how to play the game. ^_^
Happy trails, folks. :)
