Expect improvements to single-player story mode and added depth, according to a Ubisoft exec currently on the project.

Here’s a scoop via UK gaming site VideoGamer.com, who managed to grab a few minutes with the Ubisoft guys last week. Ubisoft creative director Michael De Plater confirmed that a smaller team than previously in Shanghai is shaping up a sequel to Tom Clancy’s EndWar, the real-time-strategy console game featuring voice control.

De Plater cites several changes being made to improve the EndWar experience, and told VideoGamer.com that the project is benefiting from “a bunch of guys who worked on Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, where they invest a lot in the storytelling”. De Plater then suggests: “There’s no mysteries about how we could do that and apply it in the game. Giving more attention to the single-player is straightforward to address and will make the game a lot of fun.”

Some of the key issues to improve upon from the first game are listed as accessibility, camera, controls, and the need to render so many characters in such detail. There are also gameplay areas that De Plater is keen to polish next time around:

"Changing the way the combat chain works, the paper, scissors, rock, and adding the differentiation between the three factions, again it’s not something that’s even necessarily hard to do; it’s something that we chose not to do with the accessibility,” says the pioneering manager.

No release date has been squeezed from Ubisoft spokespeople, so for now just rest assured that a sequel to last year’s stunning debut is underway. Hopefully to arrive before the world ends in 2012.