GamesRadar - World in Conflict: Soviet Assault

Direct2Drive $5 Sale Goes to War (News)

7 Oct 2009

D2D is onto the fifth and final week of it's 5 Year Anniversary $5 Game Sale, this time giving several war titles the Lincoln treatment.

Highlights include 90% off Battlestations: Pacific and over 80% off on titles Company of Heroes Gold and Supreme Commander Gold.

Ten games in all fill the war list, with 20 other titles from all genres still being offered at $5 including Bioshock, Mount & Blade and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault (Review)

17 Mar 2009

Soviet Assault doesn’t do anything to change 2007’s excellent Cold-War-gone-hot RTS. Instead, it weaves six new multi-part missions directly into the original campaign, so you play as both the invading Soviets and the defending US and NATO. It feels as if I’m playing World in Conflict: Director’s Cut, featuring scenes from the Russian perspective that ended up on the cutting room floor. ...

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault Expansion Now Available (News)

15 Mar 2009

The game that was universally hailed as Strategy Game of the Year 2007 returns with all new content! World In Conflict Soviet Assault features 6 new single missions a bevy of new weapons and even more explosive World War III action.

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault (Screenshots)

12 Mar 2009

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault - Soviet vs U.S. (Video)

10 Mar 2009

An expansion to the popular strategy game that imagined if the Cold War got hot, this time played from the USSR side. Sadly it suffers from the law of diminishing returns.

World in Conflict 1.01 Patch Release (News)

10 Mar 2009

Today (Tuesday 10th March) Massgate have released the latest patch for World in Conflict. This tenth update for World in Conflict makes the original version compatible for multiplayer games with the upcoming March release of World in Conflict Complete and Soviet Assault. It also includes several new features and bug fixes. The missing maps issue preventing players from joining certain servers has been addressed, a new difficulty level has been added for bots, helicopters can now fire at targets directly beneath them, single-player missions have been balanced and tweaked in several ways, admin spectators can now chat to both teams and much more.

All localised client downloads can be found on Fileplay at http://www.fileplay.net/files/rts/wic/patches

No World In Conflict: Soviet Assault For Consoles (News)

4 Mar 2009

When World In Conflict: Soviet Assault was first announced, it was slated for the PS3, PC, and Xbox 360. Now, it looks like it'll only be arriving on the PC. Wait, a game whose console versions get canned while the PC version is saved? That's a switch.

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault Dated For UK (News)

2 Mar 2009

As Per News Here Ubisoft Has unveild the Latest RTS developed by Massive Entertainment, World In Conflict: Soviet Assault to hit the UK stores On 13 March.

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault - Berlin 1989 (Video)

17 Feb 2009

An expansion to the popular strategy game that imagined if the Cold War got hot, this time played from the USSR side. Sadly it suffers from the law of diminishing returns.

Ubi: No plans for World in Conflict on consoles (News)

22 Jan 2009

Videogamer writes: "This morning Ubisoft has revealed to VideoGamer.com that for the moment World in Conflict and its expansion are for "PC only". Earlier today the publisher announced that World in Conflict: Soviet Assault, the expansion to the popular PC RTS World in Conflict, will be arriving for PC in March. The digital download expansion will arrive alongside a retail game, World in Conflict: Complete Edition, which will include the original game and expansion.

"For the moment we are releasing Soviet Assault on PC only and have no plans at this time to release it or the Complete Edition on consoles," said the Ubisoft spokesperson."

PC Soviet Assault set for March (News)

21 Jan 2009

When the merged Activision-Vivendi dropped a host of games from its roster last year, it left developers and franchises alike in limbo. Among the more notable of these were Massive Entertainment and the multiplatform Soviet Assault expansion to its freshly established real-time strategy series World in Conflict.

Ubisoft acquired Massive in November, picking up the World in Conflict brand in the process. However, the publisher did not address release plans for Soviet Assault until today.

Ubisoft has announced that World in Conflict: Soviet Assault will arrive on the PC in March. Gamers will be able to pick it up at retailers as part of the World in Conflict: Complete Edition bundle, while those who already own the original game will be able to purchase the expansion online.

Ubisoft Will Publish World In Conflict, Acquires Massive Entertainment (News)

10 Nov 2008

WorthPlaying writes: "Ubisoft has acquired from Activision Blizzard the assets and all of the personnel of esteemed Malmö, Sweden- based studio Massive Entertainment, as well as the real time strategy brand World In Conflict."

Acti-Bliz Massive sell-off could be "really interesting and positive," says Polfeldt (News)

18 Aug 2008

VG247: World in Conflict developer Massive Entertainment may be up for sale, but VP David Polfeldt reckons it could be the best thing to happen to the firm.

Activision Blizzard Selling Off Massive Entertainment (News)

6 Aug 2008

Activision Blizzard is putting Swedish developer Massive Entertainment, the maker of World in Conflict and Ground Control, up for sale. This confirms speculation that Activision would drop several of its Vivendi Games franchises after the two companies merged on July 9.

More after the jump...

Activision puts Massive up for sale: "We have plenty of options," says Walfisz (News)

6 Aug 2008

Speaking exclusively to VG247, Massive Entertainment's senior execs have revealed that they're already in talks for a potential sale of the World in Conflict developer, following now-confirmed news that Activision is to sell the outfit as a result of its merger with Blizzard.

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault - First wave (Video)

30 May 2008

An expansion to the popular strategy game that imagined if the Cold War got hot, this time played from the USSR side. Sadly it suffers from the law of diminishing returns.

DirectX 10 graphics possible on consoles, WiC dev says (News)

20 May 2008

DirectX 10 graphical effects are possible on the consoles, given enough time and resources, the developer of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of PC RTS World In Conflict has said.

Speaking in an interview with VideoGamer.com, Petter Sydow, VP of Development at Swedish developer Massive Entertainment, revealed that the team has managed to replicate "some" of the DirectX 10 effects seen in the PC version, but doesn't know what features will make it into the final release.

Sydow said: "At this point we've managed to replicate some of the effects, but I don't know what features will make it into the final release. Nearly all of our DX 10 features are possible to do on the consoles if you give it enough time and resources, so we'll keep on working on them and see what happens."

World in Conflict to feature voice control on 360, 90% of accents recognised (News)

29 Apr 2008

Speaking to videogaming247 at the Sierra Spring Break 08 in Mallorca last week, Massive Entertainment project manager Peter Sydow, said that voice commands will be included in the console version of World in Conflict: Soviet Assault.

Read more after the link.

No World in Conflict PC-360 online cross-play due to PC version being "geekier" (News)

29 Apr 2008

Speaking to videogaming247 at the Sierra Spring Break 08 in Mallorca last week, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault product manager Peter Sydow admitted that you won't be able to play the 360 version against the already-released PC game as the latter has more options and is therefore geekier.

Read more through the link.

Sierra Spring Break 08: Two new World in Conflict maps in console versions - PC users have to pay (News)

28 Apr 2008

Speaking to videogaming247 at the Sierra Spring Break 08 in Mallorca last week, Massive Entertainment's Petter Sydow said that two new levels for the nuke-happy RTS Â¿ telling the story from a Russian point of view Â¿ would appear in the console versions and that PC gamers would be getting them also: for a small fee.

"What's new for the 360 version is that we're adding a couple of Russian levels which tells the story from a Russian perspective," said Sydow....

Mor through the link.

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault (Preview)

14 Apr 2008

Porting the real-time strategy genre to consoles has always produced mixed results. Even the latest controllers, with their ample number of buttons, can't fully mimic the speed and simplicity of a mouse and keyboard. Even HDTVs, with their ultra sharp pictures, can't fully distinguish tiny units unless the gamer is leaning forward and squinting painfully.

Yet developers, especially during this generation, keep trying. World in Conflict ...

First footage from World in Conflict on console (News)

14 Apr 2008

A trailer pimping Sierra's PS3 and Xbox 360 version of RTS World in Conflict can been seen right here.

The game is out on PC already, and was extremely well received on the home of the RTS genre. World in Conflict features a fictional Cold War scenario where Soviet forces have invaded US soil.

The subtitle "Soviet Assault" has been added to the console release, and funnily enough, they feature a new campaign ...