Line #5 YMMV/EndWar


1	* {{SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic}}: 'This is Endwar' fits the bill for most players.
2	* ContestedSequel: Many (if not most) of the Endwar fanbase don't see Endwar Online as a proper sequel to the first game. This is backed by the fact that Endwar Online was shut down just over a year after it was released. The Freemium nature of Endwar Online and [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks its radical shift in gameplay from the first game didn't help, either]].
3	* GameBreaker: While still possible to beat, a number of units and strategies, when applied properly, are capable of breaking TacticalRockPaperScissors and pretty tough to beat.
4	** European Panther tanks with the VIRCATOR upgrade. Capable of destroying an enemy's shields with one shot, and this enables them to take on ''gunships''.
5	** Similarly, Russian [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ogre]] tanks can use their [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]] to take out gunships. [[FridgeLogic Don't ask how that works]].
6	*** In the same vein, American tanks can make use of their machine guns (which moderately improve their effectiveness against anything including gunships) and [[StuffBlowingUp High-Explosive Squash Head/Beyond Line of Sight]] ammunition which either completely destroys shields or lops off half of an enemy's health, and if it's a BLOS round, it's frequently beyond retaliation range.
7	** [[{{Whoring}} Spamming Artillery and Gunships]] is known to piss a few people off.
8	* GoodBadBugs: It is entirely possible to capture Moscow ''even without having to capture it through any battles'' at all, due to the game's mechanism of pushing the enemy back to its origin point as they attack an uplink site (and after capturing all Russian uplink sites, while the players are at it), and it still counts as capturing the enemy's capital, which is your requirement for winning your campaign! This is not applicable somewhat for capturing Paris and Washington, D.C., however.
9	* HamAndCheese: The voice lines for the foot soldiers certainly qualify, especially for the Green Brigade.
10	* HarsherInHindsight:
11	** Intro video depicts Crimea as no longer part of Ukraine, either as independent or part of Russia. Come in 2014...
12	** Also, the "European Federation's" exclusion of the United Kingdom coinciding with the real-life Brexit in 2016.
13	** The existence of the European Superstate at all, especially as a progression of the EU. In light of growing nationalist movements across western Europe in early 2017, there are serious doubts the EU will survive the next few years.
14	** The in-game news reports given each week qualify above and beyond for this trope. Weeks 10 and 16 gives news of massive protests and riots. Week 15 gives news of massive forest fires in the Western US. Week 17 reports quarantine efforts as a result of Influenza M, and week 21 states that the military has become involved in said quarantines. Sound familiar yet?
15	** It is 2022 and Russia has invaded Ukraine during a global pandemic, putting the world at high alert and pitting NATO against the Russian Federation. People in Russia are protesting to end the war and Putin has demanded that his nuclear threat response division remain on high alert. Looks like the game was only 2 years off when it came to conflict with Russia!
16	* MagnificentBastard: Sergei Izotov. His scheme to start WW3 by manipulating Europe and America to become enemies is nothing short of brilliant. He acts in the interests of Mother Russia, starting WW3 so that Russia's oil will be secured from jealous foreign powers. He's also cool enough to become a character in Tom Clancy's Elite Squad.
17	* PlayerPunch: When you send your units into completely suicidal situations that there's no way they'll possibly escape from (which you're bound to have to do at least once), they tend to respond in sad, quiet voices with things like 'Wish us luck!' or 'We'll try our best, sir'. Anyone who ''doesn't'' feel like a complete and total bastard in that situation isn't ''human''. Later in the game, every time a unit dies becomes a major PlayerPunch as well.
18	* MoralEventHorizon: Sergei Izotov started WW3 by employing a massive FalseFlagOperation, framing Europe for the Forgotten Army's attacks and the shoot-down of the Freedom Four shuttle. The war itself would kill God knows how many people, both military and civilian. He did this because he thought Russia's oil was under threat by Europe and America, which is itself a questionable notion given America's real-life oil reserves and Europe's energy independence in-game.
19	* ParanoiaFuel: A worrying number of the in-game news reports have came true in real life, like mass unrest, wildfires, and a global pandemic. The other events in the game like a nuclear detonation in an oil-rich Middle Eastern country or WW3 seem disturbingly plausible.
20	* {{Sequelitis}}: Far less people enjoyed Endwar Online compared to the first game. See the ContestedSequel part on this page for reasons why.
21	* SpiritualSuccessor: The PSP and DS versions are pretty much Tom Clancy meets ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars]]''.
22	* SoOkayItsAverage: The general consensus seems to be that while it's gameplay can be addictive, it's otherwise a basic real-time strategy game that introduces few new features and takes little advantage of the story driving the single-player campaign.
23	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One of the primary criticisms of Endwar was that the developers squandered an opportunity to expand on the in-game story, or at least flesh it out.
24	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Several aspects of the game's 2020 setting are based around assumptions that, as of the real 2020, turned out to be false.
25	** The technology of the setting is generally much more advanced than actually turned out to be developed. There is no missile shield, no military super-space stations, laser weapons are still in the experimental phase, the US and Russia still mostly use variants of the M1 Abrams and T-90, and so on.
26	** A UnitedEurope, while still a plausible development, did not occur and is now much more unlikely due to the rise of both nationalist and left-wing "Eurosceptic" political parties in European countries.
27	** While relations between Russia and the West continued to deteriorate, Russia never became extremely powerful as the result of it becoming the world's leading energy supplier. Rather, the shale oil and gas boom in the United States resulted in ''America'' becoming the world's largest oil producer by 2020, with Russia's energy-reliant economy struggling due to the supply glut.
28	** There was no nuclear war in the Middle East. Though the Middle East/North Africa region was incredibly unstable throughout most of the 2010s (with Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq all falling into civil war, and many other countries experiencing mass protests, coups, and revolutions), it never collapsed into full anarchy, and by the end of the decade Israel remained the region's only nuclear power.
29	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The architecture of certain locations is stunning. The destruction caused by the warring armies is surprisingly detailed for its day. The [[WeaponofMassDestruction WMDs]] create awesome effects in their own right.

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