GMX Announces Will of Steel for PC

February 2, 2005 - GMX Media today announced that they will be publishing the ground breaking military Real Time Strategy game Will of Steel for PC - CD ROM. The game is to be launched across the UK in the first quarter of 2005.

"Will of Steel is set to be one of our strongest games to be launched 2005." commented Commercial Director for GMX Media Mike Bright. "This game will astonish both dedicated and casual players of PC games with its ground breaking use of existing graphic technologies and its unique use of in-game voice control mechanisms."

THE GAME:
Will of Steel is a modern warfare tactical 3D Real Time Strategy game set in the early 1990s. As a young Marine officer, William Steel is the son of the highly decorated USMC General Thomas Steel. Players must assume command and responsibility of the battalion at his control and defeat your opposing in forces in hostile locations around the globe.

At the players disposal will be infantry, battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers, recon units and many other types of military hardware. The player must make wise military choices and decide how to adjust his/her actions to counteract the strategy employed by the enemy forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. Missions take place in day or night with a number of climate conditions that may help or hinder your battle progress.

Throughout the game, the player also strives to improve his/her career. By winning medals and being promoted, various special options are revealed that he/she can use in battle. Special options include:

* Air transport
* Artillery support
* Air strike
* Satellite reconnaissance
* Long range missile attack
* Reinforcement
* Special operations team

VOICE CONTROL
In Will of Steel, the player has full control of all assigned units, camera, and special options such as: Air Attack, Transport, Special Teams etc, through the use of vocal commands. The player can order unit movements, choose tactics, groups units, and can even choose the types of weapons and stances that the units take. These possibilities will allow the more skilled players to play the game and lead their troops exactly the way they desire while the less skilled players will also be able to manage units while using simpler commands and options.

It is also possible to play the game almost entirely by voice commands alone. The mouse pad can be used to select units and groups of units, to point to the places where commands should be executed, and to select options from one of the menus. Keyboard allows for a quick and convenient way (shortcut) for various commands to be executed.

Special focus is given to voice control because it has never been used in RTS games before. Voice control should help the player to control his/her units much more easily and effectively than by just using the keyboard and mouse pad. Besides that, voice control has the purpose of simulating natural verbal communication between officers and their units. This will add to the realism and will make the player feel as if he was a real-life military commander.

SOURCE GMX Media