By Ace

When I first heard of the voice recognition software, Game Commander 2, I was a little skeptical to say the least. But after only a few hours of playing with it, it has increased all games I play with a whole new light. It is a revolutionary new product from Sontage Interactive. If you can get passed feeling like a dork talking to your computer while your significant other laughs at you or asks what did you just say. If you can over come these obstacles then you should have no other problems. This is one of the simplest easy to use programs to set up and use that I have ever used. Not only does it work as a game control it can also be used as a chat tool in conjunction with your favorite online chat programs. So you tell your team mates where the bomb to defuse is at instead of trying to type it out quickly, for me I would not even have it typed out before the bomb explodes.

Game Commander 2 is Sontage Interactive’s second generation of award winning voice control for games and simulations. Many of today’s games have a lot of keyboard commands and they can be hard if not impossible to remember all of them. Game Commander takes you to the next level of gaming by enabling you to control any Windows based game with verbal commands in tandem with the keyboard, joystick, and mouse. For example, instead of remembering that ALT+SHIFT+F8 is the command for lock missiles, you can just say “lock missiles.”

Voice commands also increase the realism and immersion of games and simulations by enabling you to give verbal orders to computer-controlled characters such as co-pilots, wingmen, and crew members. Verbal tasks such as casting spells in adventure and role-playing games gain a new dimension when you can utter them in your own voice.

Game Commander 2 simply runs in the background listening for voice commands. When it recognizes a command, it sends the keystroke associated with that command to the game. No special support is needed in the game. As long as the game accepts keystrokes, Game Commander 2 can control it with voice commands. In fact, any Windows application that accepts keystrokes can be controlled by voice in this manner.

Game Commander 2 automatically loads the commands for the game or application that you’re using, and only those commands. There’s no need to remember to load the correct command file. This auto load capability means that you can work with many applications and the appropriate voice commands will always be ready.

Game Commander 2 supports up to 256 keystrokes per voice command so that it can carry out almost anything from simple commands to complex tasks such as executing a sequence of maneuvers, sending messages to other players or accessing deeply nested menu items. The number of commands per game is virtually unlimited. Command files for complex flight and combat simulations can easily contain over a hundred commands.

When you first start game commander you will already have a list of popular games already pre configured to run with this software. Also go to the game commander website to download more commands that are already configured to run under some of the newest games on the market. If they don’t list your game on the site not all is lost. In a matter of minutes you can have all the keys setup and ready to rock under Game Commander for any game that uses keystrokes. I would not recommend that you use game commander for critical moves such as strafing and jumping. It can come in real handy for finding the exact weapon when you need it, instead of scrolling through all the weapons that are available in most of the games today. You can also use it to reload your weapon so that your fingers can continue to run, jump, and strafe all at the same time. It also can come in handy for activating items such as doors and other things.

The fact that you can create user profiles and save them is a very nice option. Because my voice is quite different from my wives you can each have your own profile. I can load my profile and it has all my saved options and my voice is already recognized for all the commands I have saved in my profile.

The biggest advantage to the Game Commander software would have to be for the flight simulator community. For all those hundreds of commands you try to setup on the keyboard then try to remember what three keys need to be pushed in the right order or simultaneously to get your landing gear down. You can just set it up to recognize when you say “gear down” and that is just what will happen.

Game Commander 2 is a very inexpensive and a very handy program to have for all serious gamers. I feel that it is a cool addition to any game you play and can make the possibilities for some games endless and it might also give you an edge over the competition. Play On