World In Conflict
West Germany, 1988. To avoid certain collapse, the Soviet army boldly advances into Europe. NATO responds only to be met on a second front -- a diversionary attack on the American homeland. You are a field commander, leading the era's most powerful military machines in the campaign to retake America's cities and suburbs. Unleash ground-shaking artillery barrages, napalm strikes, and awesome tactical nukes that turn the tide of battle. ESRB Rated T for Teen.
On November 9th, 1989 the Cold War was supposed to end?it didn?t. World in Conflict is the action strategy game where players defend their country, their hometown, and their families in the face of Soviet-led World War III, delivering an epic struggle of courage and retribution. You are a field commander leading the era's most powerful military machines in the heroic effort to turn back the invasion?one city and suburb at a time. This war isn?t on television. It?s on our soil and in our backyards. Prepare yourself for the most intense strategy game ever created. Features: - War is Coming Home
- Fight in towns, suburbs, and cities based on real-life locations in America, Western Europe, and the USSR.
- Experience a chillingly plausible single player campaign crafted by Red Storm Rising co-author and Tom Clancy collaborator Larry Bond. - Unmatched Visual Payoff
- The battlefield explodes in a fury of cinematic action with World in Conflict?s ground breaking graphics technology that supports DirectX 10 and DirectX 9.
- Permanently destroy the environment ? beautiful, yet deadly artillery, air, and nuclear strikes lay waste to the landscape.
- View the conflict from every angle with amazing 360° camera control that can effortlessly get right down in the midst of combat or view the entire battlefield.
- The Most Intense Strategy Game Ever Created
- Choose the units you want right away and join the fight in seconds ? its all about explosive action.
- Employ breathtaking super weapons like ground-shaking artillery barrages, napalm strikes, and awesome tactical nukes. - Fast Paced Teamplay
- Battle online with up to 16 players. Coordinate your attacks with VOIP support.
- You?ll master four different player roles; Air, Armor, Infantry and Support, in the ultimate online teamplay experience.
- Drop in multiplayer allows you to join on-going games and immediately help your team take control of the map.
World In Conflict Accessories
 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Crysis
Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
The Orange Box
Sins of a Solar Empire
BioShock
Medal of Honor Airborne
Command & Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars DVD
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
Gears of War
World In Conflict Reviews
Very good game. Fun to play with friends if they have it. Campaign is good.
Playing the single player campaign at normal level, I really enjoyed this. 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 variety of troops to try to hold back the red hoard. But controls are easy to use with nice graphics and you get involved quickly and easily and as the story unfolds you start to enjoy it more and more as you grow in confidence and ability with your troops. Real time strategy as you fight WW3 in the mid 1980s.
If you liked Company of Heroes then I have no doubt you would enjoy this too - great stuff. You play the part of a lieutenant undertaking a number of missions, very similar to Company Of Heroes but with more modern weapons. The story jumps about a little, the US, Russia and Europe all feature and there is a backstory that links it all together. There is no base or structure building, this is about using your resources wisely, along with re-enforcements and artillery.
Mainly you control ground troops, but there is one chapter where you command helicopters fighting above New York and the Statue of Liberty.
In the late 80s, when "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" is ruling the radio, a war is going on in Europe, and when this volatile pot starts boiling, it somehow moves to America. What follows is a desperate attempt to keep those pesky Commies at bay, and protect the homeland. In defence objectives, you go to the circle, and wait 5-10 minutes till your men have wiped out the oncoming force, or you retreat, which you seem to do alot. While on offence, you'll be so busy plotting your best course of action, you'll mostly miss the action. Overall, with a well-thought out story, characters you care about, a well-placed soundtrack, interesting gameplay, impressive action and equally impressive graphics, this game has too many a pro for you not to consider adding to your own arsenal.
I would have rather had the animation for the movies and characters a little less hand-drawn, but they serve their purpose. The machine is by no means old, with it running perfectly on Call of Duty 4, but this moved painfully slow for me, camera included. You can take the omniscient point of view over the whole battlefield, or you can zoom in to see the details on your soldier's faces, and the detail in your tanks. Unfortunately, the only ones who are there to defend the area just got back from a tiring tenure in Europe. During offence objectives, you'll travel to circles infested with Commie soldiers and tanks, and you'll wipe them out. The only problem is that with all this action happening, and rather large maps on top of that, my computer had a very hard time keeping up. World In Conflict is a surprisingly effective game, and I'd recommend it to anybody that loves these types of games. To keep the story going are a series of animated movies in-between the missions to give the character an effective sense of realness, which they succeed at, and the excellent narrative provided by the best Baldwin Brother, Alec.
The result are characters and a story that you care about, and voice work that is by no-means shoddy. Story-wise, I have no problems except for the fact that the game doesn't present it in chronological order, leaving you to only know the backstory halfway through the game. At first, in only starts on Ellis, Governor's, and Liberty Island, but it then those sneaky Reds come ashore in Seattle and start wreaking havoc. Just be warned, your system better be pretty up to date to handle the magnitude of this game. Real Score: 4.5
And don't forget to turn up your speakers during the credits. Defence provides the most interesting action, because you mostly sit back and watch your men impressively take out the hardened Commie force. Troops took forever to get places, it took forever to get in badly needed air support, and so on. I would love a sequel, and somebody should seriously consider a first-person shooter prospective to this scenario. The gameplay itself is interesting, with missions taking 40-70 minutes per mission, which I would have liked shortened, and during the course of each mission, you're given objectives like 'defend the gas station,' or 'take the fort.' This mostly results in your ragtag group of soldiers taking and defending circles.
It does have a few cons, but these are mostly minor. Simple yes, but what did you expect. The graphics also never fail to impress. You also tend to stay rather busy, moving and telling troops to attack, gathering reinforcements, and directing your aerosol of air force, creating an impressive array of destruction of every sort.
Bad programming and worse support. I would get a reloading resource and a stop functioning error. The web is peppered with users who cannot get this game to run on their computers and tech support is non existent. Demo worked fine. I run and XPS 1710 w/ Vista Business premium and the game would crash any time I picked a menu choice from the main menu. Both XPP and Vista are having issues with the game and there are many suggestions to fix it on the web none seemed to work.
I'd highly recommend this game if you're an RTS fanatic like myself. Where to begin, this game has all the likes and none of the dislikes of an RTS game. I must admit I was scared at how this game would run on my system but it actually runs really really well. The game has amazing graphics, unreal explosions that look by far the best of any other video game, decent story and not many bugs. Woops, multi-player is hours of fun too. This game and Company of Heroes truly got me into this whole RTS game thing, and this game only revolutionizes what they started with this genre, this game is a must buy.
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