The era of hands-free headsets has given everyone an alibi for talking to him- or herself. If someone catches you muttering aloud your caffeine-fueled machinations for world domination, you can now give them a smile, touch your hand to your ear to feign adjusting your headset, and go about your...

Impressive voice-recognition technology; Solid core RTS gameplay; Promising online mode; Simple play mechanics

Lackluster visuals; No personal investment

Many games put you in the role of a commander; few do it with the kind of immediacy that Tom Clancy's EndWar delivers. In this innovative real-time strategy game, you don a headset and issue commands to your units by speaking your wishes to your squads. Sound like a gimmick

Innovative voice command mechanic makes you feel powerful; Fantastic audio and visuals put you in the thick of the action; Persistent online campaign makes matches feel meaningful; Different match types make good use of uplink capture mechanic

Single-player campaign has no story to speak of; All three factions play the same way; Limited unit types make for simple rock-paper-scissors skirmishes

Play it your way The sun begins to set to the west, barely peeping over a mountain range looming in the distance. A small wind bustles the grass and leaves in the trees. Below a small hill, several soldiers armed to the teeth with shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and grenades stand guard,...

Having recently seen the brash, flash, voice-commanded Xbox version of Endwar and been reasonably impressed, we had an inkling that the...

Brain-tickling war-mongering; Controls work well enough; Well-tuned two-player versus

Non eye-friendly graphics; Nothing we haven't seen done better; No single-cart two-player

Unit one, initiate video review.

That voice command system might be the slickest thing about EndWar, but the underlying Total-War-esque framework of turn-based strategy and real-time tactics is worth a thumbs-up by itself.

It's war, folks, but not as we know it. We spend all our lives worrying about when it was actually going to happen and then one sunny Spring afternoon Ubisoft went and casually announced it with Tom Clancy's EndWar! Doesn't really seem such a big deal, this World War Three after all!

Tom Clancy wrote some books and they were good, enough so that Hollywood came calling and made a few movies. Those paved the way for some great video games and everyone was happy. That proved especially true for Ubisoft, which made a killing from the eventual string of Rainbow Six , Ghost Recon and...

as a quadriplegic. This game is the most fun and intense experience in gaming I've come across. The ease-of-use with your voicethanks this game absolute delight

When we had the chance to give EndWar a spin last month we were able to get hands-on with one small battle. Whilst that experience was good, how does the full game stack up Does the final fight match up to our pre-war taster