World in Conflict: Complete Edition

Like all GOG reviews, this one has been written through glasses colored so rose, you would be forgiven for thinking me Elton John. I friggen love this game. World in Conflict was released in 2007 by the venerable Swedes at Massgate, creators of the respected Ground Control and controversial Tom Clancy's The Division. It continues in the tradition of Ground Control, and is unit-management focused Real Time Strategy games. By 2007, Dawn of War (2004), Star Wars: Empire at War (2006), and Company of Heroes (2006) had all been released, but even those game seemed like more traditional RTS fare, with bases and large armies, than WiC. WiC is pure unit management. Economy building is very simple. You have a pool of points. You can never have more points at one time than the pool can hold. You spend points to gain units. When you lose a unit, the point cost of that unit is refunded over time. Simple. What made the game fun was not the economy, it was the units and environments. WiC multiplayer games ares won by controlling nodes on a map over time, (aka "ground control"). Maps are detailed and large and three dimensional, so that you must carefully place your limited units to protect and take spread out nodes. And boy, does that 3rd dimension matter. This was not RTS lip service. Maps are built like little model train dioramas, so that valley feel deep and hills feel high. Can't see an enemy, can't shoot them, but you can lob artillery at them. Action is fast, faster than the Wargame series, but not so fast as to prevent strategy. Building are destructible and garrison-able, and the maps are full of them. The graphics quality, especially effect quality, continues to impress today. You can zoom all the way up to character models, and you'll find all these little details on the environment. In short, if you enjoy RTS tactical action, give it a try, you won't be disappointed. And a big shout out to the Modern Warfare mode, which takes the in-game tech to 2017.

I have this on steam before they took it off. I have to say it was the best money spent. The single has a good pull to it but MP was so fun. Though sadly you have to be a expert in knowing how to start 3rd party servers since Massive thought "eh, no one liked this game". even though reviews that I've seen all over praise it

I dont know a lot of game with such an exciting campagin and a realistic war story. Its story its not taking sides, its not propaganda its a good criticism of war

An action packed tactical strategy game. At the begining of every mission you are given a group of units to accomplish your tasks, ranging from infantry to tanks, copters and artillery. Some have a limited number of abilities that you can use. You need to manage them in a way that will allow you to defeat you enemy. The is no base building or resource management. I cant say that the strategy aspect is anything incredible by todays standards, but it works. What really makes this game stand out is the production values. The voice acting, sound, graphcis, large ammount of detail. The whole game is action packed. Now, this isnt exactly the best example of a strategy game, you wont be planning anything and more trying to think on your feet. However, the quality of the product is such that I cant fault it for being what it is. Its not the best of strategy games, but its a very good game. If you want an action packed strategy experience with high production values, its a must. If you like building, planning and expanding, then this game is not about that.

I was a bit hesitant on buying this game as there seem to be alot of issues with this game launching/bugs/crashes/etc. So I took a chance and I'm glad I did. This RTS game is fantastic, while I am a beginner for RTS, I enjoy the amount of units you can manage. The average of units controlled is about 1-8 so it really helps in micro-managing the units. The graphics and effects CONSIDERING this is a 10 year old game is by far fantastic (So much beautiful explosions, destruction XD). Especially when you factor in that this is less than a 6 GB download. While multiplayer is down, I'm a campaign player so I don't mind. Campaign is so far, (only played first 3 missions) is good. Again, as an inexperienced RTS player, I was still able to complete all main/sec objs on normal difficulty. I can't really find any issues or complaints with this game. The only precaution I did before I started the game was to make sure my antivirus would ignore the WiC folder as I did read about issues of launching the game. My PC specs is: Windows 10 64-bit (latest update as of 12/15/2017) i7-4790 CPU 16 GB RAM EVGA GTX 1060 SC 6GB Superb game and I honestly cannot recommend it enough!