Holy **** what an awesome game. Mix a RTS and a FPS but keep the emphasis on RTS and that is World in Conflict. The camera is controlled by wasd and the mouse much like in a FPS. You can join games that have already started at any time and the server setup is just like that of a FPS. There is no basebuilding and no mining resources (this would not make sense in the game because you are fighting on a semi modern (late 1980s - early 1990s) battlefield as either the USSR, NATO, or the US. Instead you get reinforcement points (sort of like in some FPS games like the Battlefield series) which you use to buy units. There are four different roles to go which are air, support, armor, and infantry. These roles are more close to what different races would be in other RTS games as the US, NATO, and USSR are basically the same stat-wise. I have most of the settings on low because while my computer is good, it's not extremely high end (more of the low end of high end computers) and it still look amazing. Another great thing is tactical aid. Imagine having a ghost that instead of just being able to drop a nuke, it can call in air strikes from A-10 warthogs, cluster bomb strikes, fuel air bombs, carpet bombing runs, and even a tactical nuke. The fuel air bomb and daisy cutter are akin to the damage of the nuke in starcraft while the carpet bombing and tactical nuke are so much more damaging. And you dont need a unit to issue the tactical aid order, you just pick a place on the map and the wait time for it is about 10-15 seconds.
Yup, World In Conflict is one of the best RTS's out there right now, if you could call the beta as "out there." I could play the game on full with no lag whatsoever and damn, it looks good. It took a bit of time to get used to the camera controls, but after playing the beta for a few hours, I loved it. And yeah, the tactical aid is awesome. There's like 20+ of those things in that game.
So in other words, it's like Ground Control with russians instead of aliens..? How big are the battles? If it's anywhere as big as paragon's little paradrop, i'm there.
Well the games are 8v8 and since you can join the game at any time, it's basically always full. One person generally has less than 12 units but with 16 people, they get pretty big. Plus once they are destroyed it doesn't take too long to get more (gotta wait for the reinforcement points to go up) so the battles keep going. There is constant fighting the entire game. And right now in beta there is just Domination matches but they will add assault and tug of war. In domination the matches are timed at 20 minutes.
single player should be good cause NATO gets attacked by the USSR and then they attack the western shore of the US
This game is top notch... I recommend the beta for anyone who has not tried it.. Needs a pretty beefy PC though. The level of detail on individual infantry is amazing... The infantry alone look better than anything out there... Not to mention the effects, oh the effects!!! Napalms, nukes, daisy cutters, artillery, and carpet bombing has never been so good...
Yeah, the graphics are awesome, comparable to some of the FPS's out there. Anyways, paragon, here's the specs for my comp: Intel Extreme Core Duo 2.93 GHz or something like that GeForce 8800 GTX 2 GB RAM uhh.. thats all I could think of now.
