For a few lucky individuals, the Tom Clancy’s EndWar VIP demo went live recently. Gameplanet was lucky enough to score access to it, so we can now give you a run down on what you can expect from Tom Clancy's new real-time strategy game.

The story is that in 2014 the US and the EU signed the SLAMS (Space-Land-Air-Missile Shield) Treaty, effectively bringing nuclear warfare to an end as missiles could be destroyed before reaching their targets. The Russians were left out of these negotiations and effectively accelerated their own research & development. However when an energy crisis hit in 2015, as oil companies had been overstating the size of their reserves, a push for oil began as countries attempted to secure energy.

The EU morphed into the European Federation, then having the population of the US and far more resources. The US began a push to take control of space, and in 2020 (when almost set to launch a ground breaking space station) there was a terrorist attack. Due to the tension between the US, the EF and Russia they each began blaming each other, and as momentum increased they headed toward a full-scale global war.