According to the game director, Tom Clancy's EndWar will feature a persistent online world campaign. De Plater mentioned that it's quite too early to spill the beans or drop the bomb but he did reveal the following:
I can say that one of our most ambitious features is a massively-multiplayer persistent online world campaign. Every time you log in you will see the shifting front lines of an entire world at war, where everyone is participating in a unified global version of World War III.
Tom Clancy's EndWar takes place in the year 2020 where the whole world has plunged into a global battle for power. The game is an RTS by nature and we're literally giddy about it being fully voice activated.
Combine that with the incredible 3D gameplay; the voice command system; the strong online multiplayer component; the apocalyptic World War III scenario; the ultimate 21st Century war machines; the Unreal 3 powered graphics; and I think we'll offer strategy gamers something they have never experienced before.
A public beta testing for Tom Clancy's EndWar will commence sometime in November.