EndWar creator sees voice control expansion

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Michael de Plater, formerly of Creative Assembly and now creative director on EndWar, has said that he believes voice control can play a bigger part in the games of the future.

EndWar, Ubisoft's new Tom Clancy real-time strategy series, does of course make impressive use of vocal controls, players assuming the role of a virtual General in WWIII.

The game maker told this site that real voice control can be used anywhere where "in the real world the activity you do uses your voice".

He continued: "The next ones - the two ones that seem really obvious - are coach shouting stuff in sports games, tactics, players, etc. And of course spells, that seems like an obvious one. You know, anything where you imagine that a real world character would use their voice. Systems should be able to match that really well."

More in our full interview.

By Luke Guttridge