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It could have gone a lot further in many ways. It's not really epic or absorbing, but it is integral and fun nonetheless. In some ways it seems to have been short changed. Anyone can nitpick, but I would like to be able to explore a little more with it.
The story doesn't do much for me (I'm probably alone there). Play the demo and you'll see what it's like for yourself. Trees don't grow back and houses don't rebuild themselves. You've got these 14 missions to play (20 total with the expansion which I have yet to play) and once you've beat them, that's it. The game seemed to have a lot more potential than it fulfilled. Being able to control the war would be very cool, instead of just doing missions with set objectives. It would be fun to be able to explore more of the units somehow.
Carpet bombing and setting the view extra close is lots of fun. I'm a solo gamer and this one does cater heavily to online multi-playing as well, so that might be another reason to buy it if you like that sort of thing. I hope that feature will become standard on all games of this type eventually. I enjoyed the demo level more than many of the other levels in the game.
The graphics and sound are great. Cut scenes range from not so good to very good, though personally I could have done without them altogether. You are limited to certain ones in situations where having certain other ones would make things a lot easier. It like many other so called "strategy" games is really more about learning the interface, using hot keys, and being fast on the controls than it is about tactics or strategy.
World in Conflict is a fun game. The destructible terrains are awesome. I don't mind that and I love realism, but I do like some kind of reward once I've jumped through all the hoops.
The single player is fairly good and entertaining, but once that's over and you hit the multiplayer you'll resent the time you spend playing this game. Eventually you just need to learn to quit while you're behind before you get pissed, or waste your life like a World of Warcraft gamer trying to get good; where no matter how hard you try you'll always realize how much time you wasted or how much you suck. If you like sweating in annoyance while playing a video game like it's a chore then you'll love World In Conflict. Every click and keystroke just leads you further into a pit of competitiveness where you rarely come out satisfied.
It is just feel like the later soviet side story is rushed to end(Strong opening, weak ending). Also, the soviet ending doesn't tell you much, and might leave you clueless. It is also sad many of those awesome WIC trailers video didn't make into the game. It is good for ppl who doesn't own the original WIC, just $29.99 includes the expansion and the original game; however, for people who already owns WIC might find the expansion little bit disappointing. The expansion only has six missions, and 4 of the maps were from original WIC mulitplayer. Cutscenes are top-notch like everyone said, it just need more contents.
To that end, if you're a Starcraft/Warcraft fan, you'll find this game extremely close-ended and unentertaining. This isn't what an RTS 'should' be. I became bored in the first 3 missions, and as impressive as the trailer or intro make it look, its much more dull and definitely not what you'd expect if you're used to base-builder RTS games like Age of Empires, Starcraft, Sins of a Solar Empire (the only good kind, in my opinion).
Very good game.Fun to play with friends if they have it.Campaign is good.
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