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World in Conflict (PC DVD)
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| Description:
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
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1/5 |
Fast paced mouse clicking exercise with juvenile story line...
(August 28, 2008) |
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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. There is the usual scissor, stone, and paper RTS type interaction of different units but the pace is so fast even this is often irrelevant.
The graphics and sound effects are without doubt very good but in my opinion hard to enjoy when your rushing all over the screen with your mouse pointer.
The campaign game is probably the biggest disappointment. I had hoped they would have a strategic element to the game with battles fought at locations where forces meet, a bit like Total War. But no, the campaign follows a scripted story line that has your forces flip from one part of the globe to another with no regard for realism. Worse still is the story line that is so juvenile a child could have written it.
If you're not concerned with realism and your used to fast pace action games then you will probably enjoy this game. If in doubt buy it used on Amazon to try it out.
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5/5 |
More RTS action than management .
(June 14, 2008) |
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This is probably the first RTS game I've enjoyed in a long while, simply because I'm not managing my economic system whilst fighting a battle at the same time. Strategically it may be a bit shallow but cutting out the resource management has made this game more engaging and less frustrating. It's a must-try, only problem is that the campaign seemed a little short, but I still have multi-player to play. I'm playing with Vista, it works. |
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1/5 |
Fatally flawed.
(June 13, 2008) |
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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 anymore.
Dozens of emails with tech support later, and they basically just gave up, telling me to buy a new DVD drive.
Will not be buying anymore games by this company until they ditch the useless copy protection nonsense. |
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1/5 |
Great game fatally flawed by bugs
(June 09, 2008) |
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I managed to play this game successfully until I updated my graphics card from a 6550 AGP to a 7550. Thereafter... I had nothing but crashes. I then updated my entire PC to an Intel quad core with a 9500 graphics card. My system works like a dream with other modern games such as Call of Duty 4, but still I cannot run World In Conflict without serious crashes and lock-ups which have not been addressed by any of the patches. |
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5/5 |
One of the best modern warfare strategy games around
(June 06, 2008) |
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This game has to be one of the best modern warfare startegy games around. It runs smoothly on all but the lowest specced computers. The singleplayer isn't very long but it still feels epic but the multiplayer is the icing on the cake.
The only probelm I have with this game is that the singleplayer is slightly too short and the video's between missions could be better graphics.
My favourite thing about this game is that even after a year playing it you will never have a fight that's the same. |
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