

During the single-player campaign, most missions vary what units the player can recruit, while some missions will offer the opportunity to recruit free units, though these cannot be replaced if destroyed. If a unit is destroyed, the points are refunded to the player in order to allow them to bring in more units. Once the player deploys the units they purchase, they must wait 20 seconds for them to be airdropped to the field. While players may only play as US and NATO forces during the single-player campaign, all three factions can be used in multiplayer games.ĭuring a game, players are given a pre-determined amount of reinforcement points, with which to purchase units with varying costs. World in Conflict contains three factions: the United States, Soviet Union, and NATO. World in Conflict focuses on real-time tactics (RTT) gameplay, in a similar manner to Ground Control, a game also developed by Massive Entertainment, in which players deploy units onto a battlefield and must carefully make use of them to achieve victory, making use of support assets to further assist them. In December 2015, Ubisoft shut down the official Massgate servers that supported multiplayer functions, though the player community restored these functions in 2017, through an unaffiliated version of Massgate. The game offers multiplayer functionality, supporting up to 16 players online or over LAN. The single-player story sees players assume the role of a United States Army officer who takes command of battalions of US and NATO forces the main bulk of their operations focus on combating a surprise invasion of the United States from Seattle, Washington, as well as operations in Southern France, Russia, and New York.Ī March 2009 expansion pack, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault, added additional content, including additional campaign missions in which players assume the role of a Soviet military officer who commands Soviet forces in Europe, Russia and the US state of Washington.

The game's setting and story takes place in an alternate 1989, in which an impending economic collapse and the failure to achieve aid diplomatically from the West, leads the Soviet Union to invading Western Europe, triggering World War III. The game is considered by some to be the spiritual successor of Ground Control, another game by Massive Entertainment, and is generally conceived by its designers to be a real-time tactical game, despite being marketed as a RTS game. The game was released in September 2007, receiving generally favorable reviews and several awards. World in Conflict is a 2007 real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by the Swedish video game company Massive Entertainment and published by Vivendi Games for Microsoft Windows.
