Ubisoft announce R.U.S.E.

Video: New World War 2 RTS, RUSE, looks set to make deception a mainstay of warfare.

You gotta hate it when game companies announce great looking new titles along with vague release dates - and that's Ubisoft and Eugen System's new RTS, R.U.S.E.

"Ubisoft is known for innovation and R.U.S.E. continues that tradition, offering the most immense and detailed maps ever seen in an RTS," said Ubisoft's Marketing Director, John Parkes about the game's announcement. "Players can explore the maps using IRISZOOM Engine, which provides an aerial, smooth interaction unlike anything ever seen before."

Certainly, the game is already looking intriguing, with one early trailer suggesting incredible levels of environmental detail at all levels of zoom. The game's saddled with a release date 2009/2010, but in the meantime, we've got the very nifty launch trailer to share.

Yeah, they're playing it on a Microsoft Surface. That might seem... fanciful, but we've been told by Ubi-reps that that's exactly how it's going to be played (fingers crossed) at the Game Developer's Conference, on now in San Francisco. Regardless, we've also been told that, yeah, that's how good the game looks.

Awesome.