World in Conflict! The Cold War Goes Hot.

[Timmy811]

Realizing their control of the Eastern Block was slipping, the Soviet Union knew they could only keep control of their empire if it was at war. Thus was born a World in Conflict.

Absolutely amazing trailer :shock:
http://www.worldinconflict.com/trailer_large.html

Interview with the designer about the game
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy...tml?sid=6147079

Commentery on the game by people who played it at E3
http://pc.ign.com/articles/706/706640p1.html

This game looks absolutely killer. Too bad I probably won't have a computer that can play it for a long while. :cry:

[DAv]

Looks interesting but I hope it doesn't have Europe basically bowing down to Soviet aggresion leaving America to fight for freedom. That sort of storyline just irks me.

[Timmy811]

Originally Posted by DAv

Looks interesting but I hope it doesn't have Europe basically bowing down to Soviet aggresion leaving America to fight for freedom. That sort of storyline just irks me.

I don't think it's like that.

[Jesse]

Originally Posted by Timmy811

Interview with the designer about the game
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy...tml?sid=6147079

You included the ... in the actual URL here, so the link doesn't work. This seems to be the page you want:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...ml?sid=6147079

I wonder, what's the in-game explanation for why this doesn't quickly turn into a full-scale nuclear war?

[Timmy811]

Originally Posted by Jesse

You included the ... in the actual URL here, so the link doesn't work. This seems to be the page you want:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...ml?sid=6147079

I wonder, what's the in-game explanation for why this doesn't quickly turn into a full-scale nuclear war?

Thankyou.

Small tactical nuclear weapons are available.

[MerryPrankster]

That looks kinda cool.

Is it just me, or are the Soviets invading the United States? How are they supposed to pull that off?

[Timmy811]

No idea how they got around the 7th Fleet on the way to Washington State. (You can see the Space Needle in the skyline of the city the Soviet paratroopers are jumping into, so you know it's Seatle.)

Here's some actual gameplay footage! Unfortunately you have to download to get a decent sized window. But it looks fantastic!

http://videogames.yahoo.com/predownload?eid=456308

[Tetsu]

That... shit... looks... SO BADASS!

[Ivan Druzhkov]

New Badass Trailer Time!

If you have a good connection, you can download a high-quality version here.

While I was watching it, this just popped into my head for no reason. Enjoy!

Originally Posted by Premier Romanov-style voice

Foolish Americans! Where is your great rebel hero 'Patrick Swayze' now, with his dirty dancing and road-house kicks?

[Pax Britannia]

That trailer is even better than the first one

[drakkon]

Great trailer.

Looks like the Reds got into America by travelling on board merchant vessels. Some of those big container ships can transport enough heavy equipment to fill out a brigade.

Reminds me of Tom Clancy's novel, Red Storm Rising, when the Soviets invade Iceland by bringing in a light Division on board a disguised Merchant ship.

[Ivan Druzhkov]

Originally Posted by drakkon

Great trailer.

Looks like the Reds got into America by travelling on board merchant vessels. Some of those big container ships can transport enough heavy equipment to fill out a brigade.

Reminds me of Tom Clancy's novel, Red Storm Rising, when the Soviets invade Iceland by bringing in a light Division on board a disguised Merchant ship.

Something similar happened in the game Act of War: Direct Action. This terrorist group called the Consortium smuggled a sizable military force into San Francisco in a Russian container ship, and used it to tear down most of the downtown area.

With the trailer, I personally just loved that one GI who's carrying a flag. "Smooth move," he's probably thinking to myself, "I'm going to fight the commies, and all I've got is this damn flag. I could've asked for, you know, a GUN at the barracks or something, but no, I HAD TO TAKE THE MOTHER-FRICKIN' FLAG."

[Pax Britannia]

Looks cool though

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Ivan Druzhkov

Something similar happened in the game Act of War: Direct Action. This terrorist group called the Consortium smuggled a sizable military force into San Francisco in a Russian container ship, and used it to tear down most of the downtown area.

Big difference there. The Consortium is a terrorist organization using a mixture of high-tech (Akula stealth tanks come into mind) and third-world military equipment. The Soviet Union (of 1989) is entirely using third-world military equipment.

[Redem]

I wonder if the president the same

[stodge]

The game look stunning, the trailer is fantastic BUT...the premise is entirely ridiculous. Even in the paranoia of the Reagan period, the theory of a sudden Soviet invasion of the United States wasn't taken THAT seriously.

In Britain, I remember a couple of articles in the right-wing press about how 1,000 spetsnaz troops would bring the country to its knees through acts of sabotage. The truth is that for much of the Cold War and I imagine to justify the enormous amounts of money spent on defence, the Warsaw Pact was portrayed as this near-invincible military juggernaut with thousands of tanks and millions of crack supermen ready to destroy our way of life.

Of course, the Soviet Union had the manpower but were not technologically in the same league as the west for much of the 1945-89 period. In AH terms, we have posited any number of scenarios in which the US is isolated and faces a possible land invasion.

If the game is set in our timeline, I simply cannot see where this "invasion" has come from unless it is a small-scale "raid" by disaffected Soviet soldiers. That said, it looks an incredible game...

[Dave Howery]

a computer game has a completely ridiculous background?

how shocking.

[xchen08]

[quote=stodge;861971]
In Britain, I remember a couple of articles in the right-wing press about how 1,000 spetsnaz troops would bring the country to its knees through acts of sabotage. The truth is that for much of the Cold War and I imagine to justify the enormous amounts of money spent on defence, the Warsaw Pact was portrayed as this near-invincible military juggernaut with thousands of tanks and millions of crack supermen ready to destroy our way of life.
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Well, the Russians did have thousands of tanks and millions of while not crack supermen, soldiers that were as good as the poorly trained and demoralized American soldiers of the Vietnam and post-Vietnam era. Without the threat of nuclear war, I don't think NATO could have stopped a russian invasion into western Europe in the 1970s. The superiority of American weapons over Russian is a bit taken for granted, but really, before the big buildup in the 80s, Russian equipment was every bit as good as American.

I have to admit though that 1989, and invasion of the continental U.S. well, that's just crazy. Crazy cool though.

[drakkon]

Originally Posted by xchen08

Crazy cool though.

Very cool. I particularly liked the sequence were the ZSU-23-4 blows away the news chopper.

[Trotsky]

The multiplayer functions are kickass. Each team is made up of players, each of whom control one part of the army -- infantry, armor, air support, artillery maybe, maybe even logistics (that last one would be cool).