World in Conflict: Complete Edition

This is definitely the best multiplayer RTS game I have played, but if you are interested in the multiplayer game specifically I would need to say to keep an eye out if ubisoft/massgate will end up taking the online support offline. They have plans at this moment to stop the support at 6th of october in 2015, though community would be willing to upkeep servers if it is possibly. Which I hope it is, but if your interested in the title/multiplayer just something to keep in mind. At the moment there is a petition going on for the services to continue, but time will tell how it will end. Outside the multiplayer the game has a nice single player campaign, that is fun enough to play through. Game Mechanics -Basically the game has 4 different type of unit categories: Air, Infantry, Armor & Support. -In multiplayer these 4 roles are the roles you choose which one you play as, and each role has specific type of unit only it can buy, though they can also get some off role units into play. This works differently in single player. For example Hevy tanks are only available for armor role. During the multiplayer match, you use so called re-enforcement points to buy units to the battlefield straight and you get them slowly back if a unit dies to use to buy new units. - The really nice aspect in this game is the so called TA, or tactical aid. When you for example damage units or repair them you slowly get TA for you to use. The TA allows you to call to a certain area a airstrike for example or light artillery or even a nuke with a large amount of points. These strikes don't come automatically, but have a counting time when they will happen. Like 14 seconds from now there will be this TA strike in this area. So using it against the enemy forces when you think they are going to be in the area is a really nice tactical gameplay mechanic. To me this game is still the best RTS multiplayer game, which sadly has not been as popular as I think it would have deserved to be.

The single player campaign has a cracking story to it and you really get sucked in to the characters, the game play is fun and though not the most demanding tactically does provide a reasonable challenge, where this game shines however is multiplayer. Having the ability for you and 3 of your friends to class as either Infantry, Armour, Air or Support is brilliant, by each of you taking a different role you can focus on providing the necessary support to your friends and even better, pile in the points to the support player so they can launch NUKES! Ultimately 8 players can play in the same game and it makes for an absolute riot as tanks fire on tanks, infantry dart between buildings, heavy choppers trade fire and artillery ruins everybody's day, Absolutely one not to be missed!

The campaing is just great. Yes, nowadays more and more games come putting the USA as the "defending" faction instead of the attackers, but still it is really well done in my opinion. The cinematics are great, and the story is pretty awesome how it is presented. You follow the campaing from the point of view of a silent character (you) who goes through the starting counter attacks the soviet Invasion of Europe, and then come back to the US to defend against a surprise attack on Seatle. From there, you go on battling the soviets through some desperate moments until you finally force them off US soil. The multiplayer portion of the game has several maps to play through, and it's basically a 4v4 mode. I don't remember if you can play with less, I assume so, but it's pretty awesome to be able to add bots instead, if you don't have enough human players to fill ranks. The idea is that any player can choose any of the 4 types of armies: Tanks, Helicopters, Infantry and support (artillery). Everyone gets points to trade for units, you get more points as time goes by and the more bases you own the more points you get. You get to use units from the time - 1989 - and the graphics are really good, and while it can't stand up to today's next gen graphics, everything looks really, really good. Particularly so the special effects. About how it works on current PC's: I have Windows 7, and I own the Steam version so I'm not about to buy this one right now, maybe in the future, but I was able to play the entire campaing without problems that I recall. Perhaps it has been fixed, or whatever fix I needed I found very quickly in the Steam forums. Anyway, I don't remember any big issues making it work. All in all, a great game, which I fully recommend getting.

As superb as I remember. Even after eight years the game is still beatiful. Great campaing and awesome multiplayer.