Three Moves Ahead 34: Episode 34

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2009

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Ubisoft’s Michael de Plater joins us for a fanboy grilling from Tom Chick. Why EndWar worked, its relative success and why Bruce never got to actually play EndWar for very long. Apologies in advance for Michael’s sound. His plug-in mic was not working for some reason so he talked to his laptop. Through a tin can. From the distant future. While in a submarine. Fighting robots. He’s that good. Michael de Plater’s rap sheet Tom’s great EndWar column Tom’s review of Brutal Legend – yet another game he thinks is an RTS

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:07.2	I'm your host, Troy Goodfellow, with me today as freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:11.5	Hello, everyone.
0:12.3	If I can get anyone a coffee, don't hesitate to stop and let me know.
0:17.2	And Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:19.6	I kind of think I'd like your coffee tonight.
0:21.3	Can you get me one?
0:22.8	Yep, I'm on it.
0:24.0	Okay.
0:25.2	While Tom runs to get the coffee, we'd like to welcome our special guest, live, while recording at least, from across the ocean in France.
0:35.2	We have Ubisoft's Michael DePlater.
0:37.3	Michael, thank you for joining us.
0:39.1	Yeah, pleasure.
0:39.8	I'd probably say more half alive rather than alive.
0:43.3	Yes.
0:43.9	There's a time difference we got going.
0:45.6	It's very late for you there in France, isn't it?
0:48.8	Yeah, it's 2 a.m., which at the time I'd normally be up and playing Halo.
0:54.4	But here I am talking, you the time I'd normally be up and playing Halo. But anyway, I'm talking to you good.
0:57.9	So the echo...
0:59.0	We're reading into your halo time. I'm sorry about that.
1:02.1	The echo you're hearing of Michael's voice is because we're having some trouble with his ordinary microphone,
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