Very good game.
Fun to play with friends if they have it.
Campaign is good.

Real time strategy as you fight WW3 in the mid 1980s.
If you saw the film Red Dawn, this is the kind of thing you see here, Russians invading the US mainland and you control a variety of troops to try to hold back the red hoard. You play the part of a lieutenant undertaking a number of missions, very similar to Company Of Heroes but with more modern weapons. Mainly you control ground troops, but there is one chapter where you command helicopters fighting above New York and the Statue of Liberty.
Playing the single player campaign at normal level, I really enjoyed this. There is no base or structure building, this is about using your resources wisely, along with re-enforcements and artillery. The story jumps about a little, the US, Russia and Europe all feature and there is a backstory that links it all together.
But controls are easy to use with nice graphics and you get involved quickly and easily and as the story unfolds you start to enjoy it more and more as you grow in confidence and ability with your troops.
If you liked Company of Heroes then I have no doubt you would enjoy this too - great stuff.

In the late 80s, when "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" is ruling the radio, a war is going on in Europe, and when this volatile pot starts boiling, it somehow moves to America. At first, in only starts on Ellis, Governor's, and Liberty Island, but it then those sneaky Reds come ashore in Seattle and start wreaking havoc. Unfortunately, the only ones who are there to defend the area just got back from a tiring tenure in Europe. What follows is a desperate attempt to keep those pesky Commies at bay, and protect the homeland. Story-wise, I have no problems except for the fact that the game doesn't present it in chronological order, leaving you to only know the backstory halfway through the game.

To keep the story going are a series of animated movies in-between the missions to give the character an effective sense of realness, which they succeed at, and the excellent narrative provided by the best Baldwin Brother, Alec. The result are characters and a story that you care about, and voice work that is by no-means shoddy. I would have rather had the animation for the movies and characters a little less hand-drawn, but they serve their purpose.

The gameplay itself is interesting, with missions taking 40-70 minutes per mission, which I would have liked shortened, and during the course of each mission, you're given objectives like 'defend the gas station,' or 'take the fort.' This mostly results in your ragtag group of soldiers taking and defending circles. Simple yes, but what did you expect?

During offence objectives, you'll travel to circles infested with Commie soldiers and tanks, and you'll wipe them out. In defence objectives, you go to the circle, and wait 5-10 minutes till your men have wiped out the oncoming force, or you retreat, which you seem to do alot. Defence provides the most interesting action, because you mostly sit back and watch your men impressively take out the hardened Commie force. While on offence, you'll be so busy plotting your best course of action, you'll mostly miss the action. You also tend to stay rather busy, moving and telling troops to attack, gathering reinforcements, and directing your aerosol of air force, creating an impressive array of destruction of every sort.

The graphics also never fail to impress. You can take the omniscient point of view over the whole battlefield, or you can zoom in to see the details on your soldier's faces, and the detail in your tanks. The only problem is that with all this action happening, and rather large maps on top of that, my computer had a very hard time keeping up. The machine is by no means old, with it running perfectly on Call of Duty 4, but this moved painfully slow for me, camera included. Troops took forever to get places, it took forever to get in badly needed air support, and so on. Just be warned, your system better be pretty up to date to handle the magnitude of this game.

Overall, with a well-thought out story, characters you care about, a well-placed soundtrack, interesting gameplay, impressive action and equally impressive graphics, this game has too many a pro for you not to consider adding to your own arsenal. It does have a few cons, but these are mostly minor. World In Conflict is a surprisingly effective game, and I'd recommend it to anybody that loves these types of games. I would love a sequel, and somebody should seriously consider a first-person shooter prospective to this scenario. And don't forget to turn up your speakers during the credits!

Real Score: 4.5

The web is peppered with users who cannot get this game to run on their computers and tech support is non existent. Both XPP and Vista are having issues with the game and there are many suggestions to fix it on the web none seemed to work. I run and XPS 1710 w/ Vista Business premium and the game would crash any time I picked a menu choice from the main menu. I would get a reloading resource and a stop functioning error. Bad programming and worse support. Demo worked fine.....

Where to begin, this game has all the likes and none of the dislikes of an RTS game. I must admit I was scared at how this game would run on my system but it actually runs really really well. The game has amazing graphics, unreal explosions that look by far the best of any other video game, decent story and not many bugs. I'd highly recommend this game if you're an RTS fanatic like myself. This game and Company of Heroes truly got me into this whole RTS game thing, and this game only revolutionizes what they started with this genre, this game is a must buy! Woops, multi-player is hours of fun too!!