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[Gel_on_Hair]

I found this today. Wondering if people like it.

In an interview with Gameplayer, Ubisoft's Vinh-Dieu Lam mentions that the company is looking to combine elements and characters from their various Tom Clancy properties into an interlocking "super game" of sorts:

Chris Stead: So how many tie-ins are there with the units and the vehicles of EndWar with the broader Tom Clancy universe?
Vinh-Dieu Lam: There are minor tie-ins with this game, but after this [game] there will be a lot more tie-ins. Some of our airstrikes come from the HAWX list of fighter jets, some of the Ghost Recon units are in the game, like Scott Mitchell is the commanding officer of the American army, so there are a few tie-ins. It all acts as a basis for future tie-ins.

Chris Stead: When you say future tie-ins, how far will you take it? Like, would we see a multiplayer game where someone is flying the jets using the HAWX mechanics, while someone else is controlling a squad on the ground Rainbow Six style?

Vinh-Dieu Lam: Yeah, eventually. But in the next versions 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). So maybe in the next EndWar you will need to attack Paris but before you can it may generate some sort of Splinter Cell recon mission or a Ghost Recon mission or things like that. But that is the direction we are looking at.

Chris Stead: Right, so for the next iteration of releases is it a case of the five games being separate, but you have to play one and complete something before you can activate a mission in the next one and then finish that to open the next one?

Vinh-Dieu Lam: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So with EndWar, the meta-campaign side of it is a standalone server so you can feed things into this system so it can basically generate any sort of mission. So its missions generate for EndWar at the moment, but there is no reason why we cannot generate missions from the other franchises. This is where we are looking at tying together the different franchises.

[Gel_on_Hair]

I found this today. Wondering if people like it.

In an interview with Gameplayer, Ubisoft's Vinh-Dieu Lam mentions that the company is looking to combine elements and characters from their various Tom Clancy properties into an interlocking "super game" of sorts:

Chris Stead: So how many tie-ins are there with the units and the vehicles of EndWar with the broader Tom Clancy universe?
Vinh-Dieu Lam: There are minor tie-ins with this game, but after this [game] there will be a lot more tie-ins. Some of our airstrikes come from the HAWX list of fighter jets, some of the Ghost Recon units are in the game, like Scott Mitchell is the commanding officer of the American army, so there are a few tie-ins. It all acts as a basis for future tie-ins.

Chris Stead: When you say future tie-ins, how far will you take it? Like, would we see a multiplayer game where someone is flying the jets using the HAWX mechanics, while someone else is controlling a squad on the ground Rainbow Six style?

Vinh-Dieu Lam: Yeah, eventually. But in the next versions 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). So maybe in the next EndWar you will need to attack Paris but before you can it may generate some sort of Splinter Cell recon mission or a Ghost Recon mission or things like that. But that is the direction we are looking at.

Chris Stead: Right, so for the next iteration of releases is it a case of the five games being separate, but you have to play one and complete something before you can activate a mission in the next one and then finish that to open the next one?

Vinh-Dieu Lam: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So with EndWar, the meta-campaign side of it is a standalone server so you can feed things into this system so it can basically generate any sort of mission. So its missions generate for EndWar at the moment, but there is no reason why we cannot generate missions from the other franchises. This is where we are looking at tying together the different franchises.

[Inquisitor_Zeal]

I know this idea was brought up here a while ago, before many of you came to this forum (i mean we talked about this here about 4-5 months before EW was released) and i think that IF it is done correctly Ubi could actually create a fantastic game. But the thing is, they would really have to take the time to flatten out all the bugs and major issues if they wanted it to sell well and do well in the long run.

[deamonomic]

their first attempt at may not be the best right away, but given time i think it would be awesome.

[Gel_on_Hair]

I say start now and release it in 4-6 years

[hsecrpntr]

I can't stand that idea, Rainbow, ghost, and spinter cell never shared a common momment in the past, not even in news reels in overlaping time frames, so to join the series together like that is going to only lead to more cheesyy storylines and contridictions in such.

[Donos2]

Sounds interesting. I don't know if it'll work, but I hope Ubisoft tries.