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Game Information
- Platform: Windows XP
- PEGI Rating: Unknown
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Super-Powered Warfare: Unleash the arsenals of the great military superpowers in the gripping single-player story created by Larry Bond
- Bleeding-Edge Graphics: The latest version of Massive's proprietary Masstech engine allows for a full 360 degree range of camera control and features advanced lighting and physics effects
- Complete Destructibility: As the battle rages, the world environment pays the price - every object in the game will crumble under the force of war, including cars, buildings and forests
- Deep Multiplayer Modes: Using Massive's proprietary Massgate multiplayer server system, World in Conflict will support up to 16 players for head-to-head and team-based battles
- Real World Units: Players will take control of the most devastating arsenal of military weaponry ever created, including Soviet, American and NATO tanks, planes, trucks, troops and helicopters as well as nuclear weapons
- Player Roles: Players will choose to play as Infantry, Armor, Support Forces, or Aerial specialists
- multiplayer teams will need to master each role for maximum effectiveness
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Product Description
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Alternative histories always provide good value and this innovative new real-time strategy features a "what if" scenario involving the outbreak of a conventional war at the end of the Cold War and a Soviet invasion of the U.S. Although the game goes to some effort to make this seem as plausible as possible it’s also worth noting that the developers admit the plot is heavily influenced by 1984 Patrick Swayze non-classic Red Dawn. The game itself is similar to the popular Ground Control series, which the same team also worked on, although it features no base building or resource management, instead concentrating solely on combat and tactics. As such you can choose your weapons and equipment before a mission as well as whether you will play the role of infantry, air power, support or ground armour. Each of these four roles comes with their own specialized units, as well as tactical aids such as airstrikes, paratroopers and even tactical nuclear weapons.
Graphically the game is hugely impressive; with superb lighting effects and dozens of units on screen at once. The most important visual feature though is the completely destructible 3D battlefields which are slowly demolished by shells and explosions over the course of a level. Skyscrapers and whole forests can be annihilated in a short order, emphasising the game’s grim sense of apocalyptic doom. The fully featured multiplayer can be played online by up to 16 people and allows you to take control of Soviet, American and NATO forces in head-to-head or team based battles. There’s already a number of innovative new real-time strategy games scheduled for 2007 but this is certainly looking like one of the best.
HARRISON DENT
Product Description
World in Conflict presents a chillingly authentic Cold War scenario where the Berlin Wall never fell. Created by Cold War authority and best-selling author Larry Bond, the story begins in 1989 as the Soviets, fearing certain collapse, boldly advance into Europe. NATO responds in force only to be met on a second front - a full-fledged invasion of the American homeland. Players take on the role of field commander, leading the era`s most powerful military machines in the campaign to retake America`s cities and suburbs.
- Super-Powered Warfare: Unleash the arsenals of the great military superpowers in the gripping single-player story created by Larry Bond
- Bleeding-Edge Graphics: The latest version of Massive`s proprietary Masstech engine allows for a full 360 range of camera control and features advanced lighting and physics effects.
- Complete Destructibility: As the battle rages, the world environment pays the price - every object in the game will crumble under the force of war, including cars, buildings and forests.
- Deep Multiplayer Mode: Using Massive`s proprietary Massgate multiplayer server system, World in Conflict will support up to 16 players for head-to-head, team-based battles.
- Real World Units: Players will take control of the most devastating arsenal of military weaponry ever created, including Soviet, American and NATO tanks, planes, trucks, troops and helicopters as well as nuclear weapons.
- Player Roles: Players will choose to play as Infantry, Armor, Support Forces, or Aerial specialists - multiplayer teams will need to master each role for maximum effectiveness.
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43 of 47 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Ok, the engine for this game is superb. So much so that to run the game at its most pretty you will need a very high end machine to get the best out of it. Even so, on lower settings the game is presented beautifully. It is great fun to play as well as you ply your outnumbered units against a mass of Soviet forces. The games uses a neat system where you gather points to call in various air and artillery strikes which are wonderfully rendered by the already well advertised game engine. However, for all of the lush graphics and smart presentation the game lacks in one crucial area. Its essentially a kick and rush game where you simply send in enough of your forces to eventually kill enough of theirs. Its a war of attrition and any unit that attains a veteran status is soon wiped out simply because the enemy is too many. You can't really employ any tactics of your own having to follow the orders of the colonel to the letter. And no, sending one tank down one street whilst the others attack down another does not constitute 'tactics' it could have been much, much better. Its a shame that the hype has overshadowed these failings as World of Conflict is a big step in the right direction. Its just too frenetic to be anything other than a click and fire game where you simply hope your forces dont become overwhelmed which they are almost always near to being. It tries too hard to be clever when in reality its just a very good looking air head that can't engage in any reasonable conversation. I know its a weird analogy but hey. Still, its very enjoyable at times and although the story is a little trite to say the very least it is a good yarn. You will not regret buying this but be warned it isn't the be all and end all of computer games. Its just heading in the right way.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This PC Game I got in the Christmas of 2007 and after recieving many games since then, this game is one of my personal ranked high ones!
It is set in the 1980s and you have to control the American defences during the USSRs attack on Americas west coast. You have to deploy units, set where and when air strikes should take place and push back the USSRs army back into the Pacific! Whats even better about this game is that it is not map based, no, the player gets to experience 3-D real life mode and you have to fight in places ranging from towns and villages such as Seattle to the snowy mountains and dense woodlands.
This game is a perfect buy and I would reccomend to all PC gamers that enjoy an action packed never ending game!
It is set in the 1980s and you have to control the American defences during the USSRs attack on Americas west coast. You have to deploy units, set where and when air strikes should take place and push back the USSRs army back into the Pacific! Whats even better about this game is that it is not map based, no, the player gets to experience 3-D real life mode and you have to fight in places ranging from towns and villages such as Seattle to the snowy mountains and dense woodlands.
This game is a perfect buy and I would reccomend to all PC gamers that enjoy an action packed never ending game!
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
What a shame that there aren't more strategy games like World in Conflict! On paper it sounds flimsy at best, a command and control RTS without resource gathering or base building where an average game lasts 10 to 15 minutes.
15 minutes of frantic scrambling to acheive objectives that, at least at first, look very simple. Full scale combat begins 30 seconds in and doesn't stop or even slow down until the game is over. This is the absolute antithesis to Supreme Commander with its "half an hour to build" cannons and nukes. To get reinforcements click a few buttons and within 25 seconds a heap of new tanks an men are parachuted in.
World in Conflict is about action and explosions; as much as possible, as fast as possible.
As far as there can be a strategy equivalent to Counter-Strike, this is it.
15 minutes of frantic scrambling to acheive objectives that, at least at first, look very simple. Full scale combat begins 30 seconds in and doesn't stop or even slow down until the game is over. This is the absolute antithesis to Supreme Commander with its "half an hour to build" cannons and nukes. To get reinforcements click a few buttons and within 25 seconds a heap of new tanks an men are parachuted in.
World in Conflict is about action and explosions; as much as possible, as fast as possible.
As far as there can be a strategy equivalent to Counter-Strike, this is it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
The Cold War Arrives in US
I was very excited to play World in Conflict (WIC) because I liked the concept. After playing the single player campaign, I felt a little let down. Read more
Published 1 month ago by JH
Great Game.
Excellent game, but there is an expansion pack for this game, i reccomend getting the complete edition so you dont have to play though the campaign 2 times.
9/10
9/10
Published 17 months ago by Trundley
HONESTLY, THE BEST HISTORIC WAR GAME EVER
1) This game is sooooooooooo immense as the cinematics are, i swear to god, LIKE REAL and you really do want to play through the seemingly dull campaigne (only dull when you find... Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2009 by Adam Chabane
Poor effort
Quite what they were trying to do here I don't know but it's a poor gaming experience.
The graphics are quite good but the 'cinematic' interludes with their cod... Read more
The graphics are quite good but the 'cinematic' interludes with their cod... Read more
Published on 23 May 2009 by Rogthedodge
Help
I have a slight problem for the tutorial just won't work and i don not understand how to do the first part in the campaign. Please could someone help
Published on 15 May 2009 by J. Thomas
A failure of style over substance
Rather disappointing. Good graphics, but not up to the standard of Company of Heroes (the camera cannot zoom nearly do far in, so the detail of the units themselves is lacking,... Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2008 by Andrew Halket
Very entertaining
Real time strategy as you fight WW3 in the mid 1980s.
If you saw the film Red Dawn, this is the kind of thing you see here, Russians invading the US mainland and you control a... Read more
If you saw the film Red Dawn, this is the kind of thing you see here, Russians invading the US mainland and you control a... Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2008 by N. Brett
Great game, but the sound does it for me!
This game is fantasic, the campaign opens out with a superb start and excellent tutorial.
I never played it online but i loved setting up skirmishes against the computer,... Read more
I never played it online but i loved setting up skirmishes against the computer,... Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2008 by Mr. J. S. Gillies
Fast paced mouse clicking exercise with juvenile story line...
War gamers should beware. This is not a realistic game on modern warfare. It is a fast paced mouse clicking exercise both in single and multi player. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2008 by Paul J
Fatally flawed.
Great game, but totally ruined by bugs and a godawful copy protection system. My copy decided after a dozen or so plays that the original disc was a copy, and refused to run... Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2008 by S. Field
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