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Ubisoft Confirms Tom Clancy Mega-Game
by Blake Ellison, Oct 17, 2008 5:00pm PDTUbisoft's Tom Clancy game series including Splinter Cell and GRAW are to converge and form one consistent universe with games that will interact in each other, according to a recent interview.
"In [later] versions [of Clancy games] you'll find, say, missions generated in the next Ghost Recon (presumably GRAW 3) affecting the world map in the next EndWar (presumably EndWar 2)," said EndWar (PC, 360, PS3) programmer Vinh-Dieu Lam on Australian site Gameplayer.
The rumors of a Tom Clancy "mega-game" started last year with a teaser website referring to the universes of Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, and Ghost Recon. Ubisoft Shanghai's EndWar, the first Tom Clancy RTS, "acts as a basis for future tie-ins," according to Lam.
Earlier this year, Ubisoft confirmed it was working on a Tom Clancy MMO, which may also connect to--or play host to--the future Tom Clancy universe.
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It reminds me of what was tried years ago with... Gods, why can't I remember the title? OK, there was a ground-based turn-based strategy shooter, kinda like X-Com but older. And then there was a 4X strategy game from the same company, and a space-sim. And if you had all three, you could use them to create one game, basically. You would work your empire in one, then when you got into a ship-to-ship battle it would switch to another, and when you landed to take a planet it would switch to that one.
FUCK. I don't remember enough about it to look it up...
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Remember Rainbow Six, guys? That was a good game. I liked how after Raven Shield they just stopped.
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So basically what they are saying is the universes will all follow the same plot and there will be crossovers seeing missions from one game from a different perspective in another game.
This actually pretty damn cool.
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