I used to spend half a day futzing around Apple’s movie trailer site. I’d spend the other half at Gametrailers.com, because I really can’t consider myself a productive individual unless I’m watching video game trailers until the cock’s crow.

Tom Clancy’s EndWar looks pretty cool, and is of particular relevance if you’re interested in speech recognition.

That’s because this real time strategy game (in which you mobilize entire armies) is controlled almost entirely by voice.

Voice controls in video games isn’t actually a new concept. Senior Editor Leonard E. Klie wrote a December 2006 news story about voice control in video games. However, up until EndWar, the inclusion of voice controls has been mostly incidental, a neat little gimmick that’s fun to dicker with for five minutes until it becomes completely annoying.

EndWar, which will be released in Fall 2008, relies almost solely on voice commands powered by Fonix’s technology.

Check out the screenshot:

The example I give for that is whenever I watched one of my friends play a racing game before there were motion controls, they were leaning anyway. They were leaning back and forth with the controller. So to transition to something like that we’re you’re moving your hands to control is a lot easier than for someone to just bust out a command through a mic.

Anyway, check out March’s upcoming Vertical Market for a more in-depth look.