World in Conflict, anyone ?????

Gamespot rated this game higher than any other game ever made. Check their rankings - higher than WoW BC. Has anyone played this game? Any thoughts?

We're working on a review of this right now so look for that probably next week.

I've played both and think its not fair to compare Company of Heroes to World in Conflict. Both RTSs' yes but thats where similarities end. World in Conflict is a very fast paced game that screams at you for teamwork. (multiplayer) A lot of options but the game has a quick learning curve. No sitting back and building up huge armies....if you don't go out and fight, the enemies helos will come to you. It's a great game and you wont regret buying it.

Been busy playing Crysis beta almost forgot it came out this week, going to pick it up tomarrow for sure!

Yeah, the campaign is good stuff. Some silly character-based cut scenes here and there. But hey, Alec Baldwin is narrating the game, so Massive gets points for that

This is one intense RTS. It's not perfect, but it's got great action and it's pretty challenging. The Soviet attacks are pretty relentless in the U.S. theater -- I got a cooked a few times in Seattle/Pine Valley before I got the hang of things -- and you have to rely on reaction time and quick thinking more than actual combat strategy in many situations. But it's still awesome so far. Can't wait for the action to move to Europe....

I didn't like supreme commander that much... I'm not a big fan of it when each faction has the exact same units (with different looks)... I like the variety found in Starcraft and Warcraft and such... very different units, but very balanced.

Gamespot gave it a 9.5. I've seen a lot higher, and the score is especially meaningless since they've changed their scoring method to a very generic rounded score system for retards so you only get scores in increments of .5 points. So while it got a 9.5 with the new system, it may have gotten a 9.2 with the old system like Burning Crusade, or Burning Crusade may have gotten a 9.5. But Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Soul Calibur for Dreamcast have gotten perfect 10s, unless you're just counting PC games, but then you may as well count only RTS games.

But I'll have to check it out. I'm kind of sick of RTSes. I haven't really liked an RTS since Myth 2 and that was because it focused on fighting instead of tedious building and resource management.

The only differences I noticed in the races was in their T4 (experimental) stages... which was lame. That's just my opinion on the game, I'm glad that so many people like it, it's just not for me.

My disk just arrived! I suppose the divorce is next ;-)

If a friend of yours bought the game, he can give you a 10 days trial key for internet play (and I think you have access to the single player campaign too). I think it's a pretty good way to get a feel of the game.

I played the campaign in 2 days. Really short but great. And MP is superb but is 100% depending on teamwork. A lone wolf has no chance.

God I hate the new generation of RTS players.

I've been playing RTS games for a long time (eg. Dune 2, C&C Series, Company of Heroes, Warcraft series, Age or Empires series, etc), and so far this is the only RTS game I can think of that finally makes fighting the battles more important than managing the infrastructure (ie. economy and base placement) and does it well.

In most other RTS games, you always had to worry about hitting certain key milestones within a certain amount of time. The build order and the efficiency in executing that build order almost always was more crucial in determing the victor in multi-player than the management of your combat units. Personally, I've always hated this aspect of most RTS games, because the games were usally decided within the first 2 minutes of the match and team work was almost always a non-factor.

With World in Conflict, there is essentially no more resources gathering. Instead you get "resupply" points that regenerate over time, so micromanagement of your units is much more vital. In addition, since the resupply points are the same for everyone and the points are limited, rushing and spamming units are almost impossible to pull off without adequate teamwork (assuming you are playing more than 2v2).

I've only been playing the game for about 1 week now, and I can't honestly remember a game that is as balanced and polished as this game. I'm sure that part of this, is that the game is so new that no one has figured out the best exploits, but so far I haven't seen any single player dominating excessively.

I should also mention that the game looks damn "pretty". I've never seen a tactical nuke rendered in real-time look so good!

The demo is still available out there and definitely worth a try.

@kiwik

I've been playing RTS's since C&C1 that I got for my birthday when I was 12 on my P1 @ 133mhz.

Listen, to me this game gives quite an emursive feel. I love calling in the support strikes and having a constant bombard while you're zoomed close to the action. That is a great feel.

To me though, I'm not overly happy with the zero resourse gathering or base development. If this was set up closer to the way COH is then it would make this game perfect.

EDIT: Are you saying you don't like the graphics or feel of the battles?

World in Conflict was the best $50 I ever spent. It's really that good...

Well I commented on the intense battles, and it is. What makes it intense is that there is so much focus on how you use your units that you pay all of your attention to them.

Launching support to first clean out an area, then move in your ground units to take out any AA then have your heli's come in and support the rest of your units. If you don't use each of your units special abilities than your dead.

This definatly isn't a end all game to RTS's but I think it's something innovative that should be experienced.

I looked into SupCom and it looks great but it just seems to much is going on for me. It kind of looks overwhelming.
I might try the demo for World in Conflict. From reading here it seems its more about fighting and tactics than resource management.

I just saw WIC for the first time last night, along with Stranglehold, and the new MOH. Now mind you I've never played a RTS before so my opinion counts for diddly-squat but......WIC is awesome!!!!! The graphics OMG! Brought my new Core2-Duo/8800GTS to its knees! WIC is the first RTS (I've seen anyway) that looks so cool it is forcing me to open up to the world of RTS. So tonight I look forward to playing all these new games but WIC is the first one on my list of must plays.

Any advice for a first time WIC/RTS player?

Thanks Trigger-dude!

I didn't actually play last night, got too busy tweeking the video settings. It seems my system is CPU bound cause cranking up AA and AS does not change the frame rate much at all.

Thanks again for the hints.