Eldritch Warlord post=9.73786.809463 said:
Ivoryagent post=9.73786.809445 said:
urprobablyright post=9.73786.809403 said:
Tom Clancy making an RTS? that's like George bush going in to school teaching.
Why would that be?
I second that query, such statements should always have justification.
I'm going to go ahead and third it. After all, most Tom Clancy games are tactical shooters that require much more thought and strategy than your typical "Shoot EVERY-FUCKING-THING!!!!" spastic gameplay of some shooters; making an actual strategy game in the Tom Clancy brand isn't a huge stretch of the imagination.
EDIT for response:
Firstly, again, Tom Clancy has about as much to do with "his" games as Walt Disney has to do with most of Disney's movies.
Secondly, that isn't exactly true. His books aren't about the Special Forces; they are mostly political thrillers with a heavy focus on the CIA and a lot of realistic military (Particularly the Navy) action. I question if you have ever read a Tom Clancy novel with that statement, and are instead just assuming that his novels are all like "his" games. The ONLY Tom Clancy novel that had anything to do with Special Forces is Rainbow Six, and the fact that one of the main characters of his novels is a former SEAL. But indeed, the main character of Tom Clancy's novels isn't in the Special Forces, and never was; he is a CIA analyst that eventually works his way up to be the Deputy Director.
Actually, Tom Clancy's second novel was much like EndWar. His second novel was Red Storm Rising, which was a WWIII scenario with NATO fending off an invasion of West Germany by the USSR in the late 1980s. Also, the last several hundred pages of Executive Orders are about a massive war in the Middle East between a new country called the United Islamic Republic (A merged Iraq and Iran following the assassination of Saddam at the hands of an Iranian sleeper agent) and a united coalition of America, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Tom Clancy has done large scale conflicts in his novels before; they aren't about Special Forces like you seem to think. Of course this is a moot point because he has nothing to do with the games. Then there is The Bear and the Dragon, which is about a war between Russia and China over resources.
So no, EndWar isn't some strange new concept for the Tom Clancy brand. The games, perhaps, but not for the novels. Tom Clancy has done large conflicts in his novels before, and if anything, Endwar is sort of like a spiritual video game adaptation of his second novel, Red Storm Rising. Different settings and stories, but same core concept.
So don't assume that Tom Clancy's novels are like the games and are all about the Special Forces; they aren't. They are primarily about the CIA and politics, with military operations and wars thrown in here and there.
