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Linus tech tips coverage of PAX East 2014 is brought to you by Intel and Corsair alright guys I'm here the indie mega booth with there came an echo I've been hearing about this game ever since we landed and I've had to check it out we've been busy but we're finally here and I got to play it myself and it's it's one hell of an experience and they don't even have the voice actors in there yet so what what is this game what can you tell me about this game this is a voice controlled realtime strategy game it's a little complicated we're in the core to help the one race the Delta 3 on my mark Maranda fire on my mark let's do it great Wil Wheaton and Ashly Burch star in the game and you're controlling a squad through various tactical scenarios with your voice and you say things like all units to alpha one shields up focus fire on target to tactical decisions like that and it's a really narrative based experience and it's a lot of fun to control your voice so it sounds really really cool when he talks about that but some things that you guys might be worried about is like oh well I don't really know military commands I'm not gonna remember to say took brow Bravo - or any of that kind of stuff so what you guys have something in place where I can you explain how that works yeah so we have this system called command aliasing I can tell you what the basic military commands are but it's a little tough to remember all those and even if you do maybe it's not the way you want to commander guys so we have the system where you can replace any existing command or character or location or anything in the game with whatever you want if you don't want to call them corn you can call them benedict cumberbatch if you don't want the command to be fired you can say mess those guys up and this can be completely customized however you want and it's one of those things that you kind of just I understand that it's a little you might be a little skeptical about voice commands about the Gaul that might not be very accurate or that's not very good you've got to just try it I mean you just had a chance to give it a shot it's it's very very accurate and I want everyone to give it a shot that said we do also support controller keyboard and mouse commands as well so however you want to play as cool with us yeah like for instance I Elias Corps in one of the guys in the game tooth - so I could use him as my suicide fighter because I don't care about - he's not even here right now so I can say that if you see right now I would be in so much trouble anyways like what are some of the risks you see in coming this because we come to the indie mega booth and we see so much innovation but you guys guys like this like I'm excited to pick this game up I'm gonna pick this game up put a like dropping budget on Wil Wheaton and stuff like that like it's a huge name are you worried about I mean well yes that's that a huge risk yet yes it is I mean it's this whole game a huge risk yes it is there are not a lot of voice controlled games out there but to me it's like I I want to do something different you know I yes it's I had them up we did our first game sequence it made a good bit of money and I could have gone and maybe made a sequel to that or I could have done a retro 2d platformer I guess not that there's anything wrong with that anyone's watching and likes retro but I wanted to try something really different I wanted to try to create an emotional connection between the player and the characters in the game and I think actually talking to them and having them talk back with some great voice actors is a really really cool way to do that it's just more about what I really love and what I really wanted to see happen that's that's a perfect answer in exactly what I wanted to hear because that's what I love seeing in the indie Meaghan booth and honestly within the very short period of time I had to play it it's it's you get a connection with it immediately like it's I cared more about those people because I wasn't just drag and dropping a mouse and throwing them into the battle I actually had to tell him with his name go there and if he dies from doing that I'm gonna feel bad that's your fault and more than that they talk to you they respond if they don't hear you to say sir repeat that they banter amongst themselves and they're all have very unique they're not just like hoorah military soldiers generic guys they all have unique personalities motivations desires and speech patterns and of course to that end we have our crazy awesome cast Wil Wheaton Ashly Burch Laura Bailey Yuri Lowenthal Kerr and Strassman Rachel Roberts and the list goes on we're so excited to record we record in July super psyched to work with those guys that's gonna be awesome I'm super stoked for this game and I will be picking this up myself if you want to see all the rest of it or any mega booth content all the rest where PAX East content be sure to subscribe to Lenny's tech tips and as always thanks for watching this video