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World in Conflict
- Xbox 360, Windows
- Price: $49.99
- Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Common Sense Media says
Innovative strategy game is gory but rewarding.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this game is filled with large-scale battles complete with artillery strikes, napalm, and even nuclear bombs. Soldiers can be run over by tanks, blown up with artillery, or shot by snipers. On the positive side, the game has a very interesting, and well-told storyline about how the Cold War could have ended, and an included History Channel DVD explains how the real Cold War actually ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The game has an online component, which Common Sense Media doesn't recommend for anyone under age 12.
What's it about?
WORLD IN CONFLICT lets players imagine the "what ifs" of the Cold War and then lets them play it out in all of its grittiness. It's 1989, and the Soviets have made a surprise attack on the United States. Seattle is overrun, and it's up to a few rag-tag divisions to try to turn the tide. World War III is in full gear, and it's the player's job to win back the United States.
In one of the biggest breaks from the standard RTS genre, World in Conflict has no resource-gathering. Instead each player is given a pool of reinforcement points, which they can choose to spend on military units: troops, tanks, helicopters, etc. As the player's units are destroyed during the battle, the point values for those units are slowly added back to the player's overall pool of reinforcement points. Players also acquire tactical points when they accomplish certain objectives that can be spent to call in artillery strikes, napalm runs, and even nuclear weapons.
Is it any good?
The game's story is told through outstanding cut scenes and in-game narration. World in Conflict spends a lot of time developing character personalities -- the player can identify with the turmoil some of characters are going through. Players get to focus almost entirely on battlefield strategy, rather than micro-managing the collection of gold, wood, oil, etc. As good as the single-player campaign is, the game really shines with its multiplayer options.
Like Battlefield 2 and other recent online war games, the leader board has a whole host of medals, ribbons, and awards for players to win. Teams that work together in multiplayer mode have a huge advantage, since each player only specializes in one area: air, support, infantry, etc.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about how this game uses a storyline that presents an "alternate history" -- imagining that something in the past happened differently than it did. Have you read any books or played games that used this method of storytelling? Does it encourage you to discover what really happened?
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A must play game
for people who love real time strategy best graphics DO PLAY EVEN THE DOWNLOAD VERSION IS AWESOME go to massgate for it
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not good
nothing you have seen before meaning there is nothing new in the game evrything is like oh ben tere done tat stuf lik tat.
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A realistic, war-based strategy for mature audiences.
I personally love this game. It is a great example of an RTS (real-time strategy) game. However, it realistically shows what modern warfare is like. It contains realistic violence, with dead infantry falling to the ground in a true-to-life manner (not rag-dolling) and the bodys linger on the scene of battle for a good couple minutes before fading. There is blood in the game and, depending on the performance of your PC, there will be blood stains on the ground, not overly noticeable, but there.
A plus tho, is that unlike a lot of war games, it doesn't glorify war, making it seem like and admirable and good thing. Rather, a few of the characters try to escape the brutality of the combat and are noticeably scared. World in Conflict displays war as it is; a brutal, horrific, unforgiving scene where people fight to kill other people.
If you are mature, however, this is a very good RTS that will keep you thinking and on the tip-of your toes.
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Great game
My 12 yr old and my 8 yr old both play it,man my daughter kicks some commie #$@,its full,its great for anyone,my kids have heard worse words than are in there!
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Best RTS ever
This is the best RTS to date. i love the idea of not collecting resouces. lots of sratagy involved in the game. The mutiplayer is really good since you can make/join a clan
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GREAT GAME
Great plot, but the single player campaign can get boring pretty soon. Its the multiplayer experience thats truly dynamic.Ya u can run over soldiers with tanks, but only in cutscenes or being zoomed in real close do u actually see blood.They need to make a CGi movie of this. Note the moviemaker and map creator downloads.
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BEST RTS EVER!!!!
there is nothing wrong with this game AT all one of my favorites. yeah it shows little guys get run over by vehicles, but the thing is, they just fall over no blood nothing. Story is great honestly its like a movie made me cry almost its so touching.
age appropriate for any kid that can play a computer game well seriously
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A Twist to the Cold War...
We know about the Cold War. The Cold War started in 1945 when everyone knows who were cruel--Soviets--killed Japanese people and ended in 1989. Japan won independence in 1999, so this is kind of realistic due to the fact to Japan, the Cold War to them ended in Asia LATER.
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| Platforms: | Xbox 360, Windows |
| Available online? | Available online |
| Genre: | Real Time Strategy (RTS) |
| Developer: | Sierra |
| Release date: | September 18, 2007 |
| Price: | $49.99 |
| ESRB rating: | T for Blood, Language, Violence |
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