Square Enix Issues Order of War

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Square Enix continues its foray into publishing Western games with the announcement that it will publish Order of War, a new World War 2 real-time strategy game for PC.

Players will take command of up to 1,000 troops, tanks, artillery and aircraft in vast battles based upon key historic events and operations from 1944 on both fronts--as Americans versus Germans on the West, and Germans against Russians on the East.

Square Enix seems to have taken a shine to Western RTSs, as it announced last year it would be publishing Gas Powered Games' upcoming Supreme Commander 2.

Developed by Wargaming.net--handily also its website--Order of War is due this fall.

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    April 16, 2009 1:10 PM

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      April 16, 2009 1:23 PM

      It absolutely blows my mind that a Japanese RPG console developer that doesn't ship it's franchises globally (at least simultaneously) enters the western market with a relatively hardcore genre on the PC.

      When they announced they were publishing Sup Com 2 my jaw dropped. With a WWII RTS I just don't think I can be shocked any more.

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        April 16, 2009 5:51 PM

        Not a truly massive surprise. I mean, if any culture would be eager to embrace huge stompy robots doing huge stompy things it would be the Japs.

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      April 16, 2009 1:23 PM

      I think you need to read a little deeper into the article. Square is just the publisher, not the developer.

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        April 16, 2009 1:44 PM

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        April 16, 2009 2:16 PM

        I could see them publishing a few generic titles to get their developers heads around the basics, then work on something with a little more substance.

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        April 16, 2009 2:50 PM

        It's still pretty weird that they've jumped straight into publishing RTS titles (SupCom2, this) straight away though. It looks like Squenix wants to be immediately recognised as a serious publisher, RTS titles are still very much a PC niche after all.

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