• Publisher: Ubisoft
  • Release Date: Mar 10, 2009
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings

  • Summary: World in Conflict: Soviet Assault allows players to relive the Cold War in a dramatic, gritty, real world setting driven by compelling characters and storyline. This one of a kind strategy game offers players a unique team-oriented experience on chillingly realistic battlegrounds. Soviet Assault features all-new characters, gameplay from the Soviet perspective, ten new films, new multiplayer maps and more. [Ubisoft] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 21
  2. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. While the Soviets can be considered a new playable faction, the fact that they don't bring any new units means they play pretty much identically to their American enemies. This is perhaps Soviet Assault's biggest disappointment.
  2. Soviet Assault is still an indispensable title, although the developers should have included more new features or, at least, more missions in the campaign mode.
  3. With Soviet Assault we're treated to an exiting and realistically detailed experience of war set in the year of 1989. As with the original game the presentation is as attractive as it is detailed and realistic. The expansion adds an intense war campaign and a truckload of red flags. The increased intensity is unfortunately hampered by an equally increased complexity of gameplay, but overall this is a great experience for all fans of strategy and warfare.
  4. The new content in this World in Conflict expansion is short and not so sweet.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. MartinF
    10
    Brilliant game, can only recommend everyone that loves strategy games to buy it.
  2. A fantastic RTS game. It does away with base building, and instead uses reinforcements you can air drop into the battle. This system also means that when all your units are gone, you don't lose the game, as any reinforcement points that were used on that unit get refunded, so you can get back into the fight quickly.

    The Tactical Aid is amazing. It allows you to call in Artillery, Air support etc. The amount of tactical aid powers you get is amazing. You could level an entire city with the Tactical Aid. It also looks amazing when you call down a rain of artillery down on your enemies.

    In terms of Graphics the game is solid. Explosions look satisfying, and the unit, terrain and environmental details are nice and clear.

    If your new to WiC then the control scheme might seem strange for an RTS game. As you control it more like an FPS game than a standard RTS game. Due to this, it could very well be ported over to consoles without any trouble at all.

    In Soviet Assault you essentially play two campaigns rolled into one. You'll be playing as both the USA and Russian forces.

    I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes their RTS games.
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  3. The campaign is very well done and provides an enjoyable experience. However the multiplayer is pointless because no one uses anything but gunships and AA. All the multiplayer is helicopters shooting things and anti-air killing helicopters and one or two people with armor. Don't buy just for multiplayer and don't get the soviet assault expansion if you already have the original game; it does nothing but add a couple new campaign missions Expand
  4. Have to give the game props for trying to tell the story from the Soviet side, but ultimately it was pretty uninteresting storyline. It ended on another cliffhanger like the original and it was only 6 missions long which is quite short. The placement of the missions into the original games mission list didn't flow very well either. There really isn't any "new" content, just missions and a story. This expansion suffers from the same let-downs of the original. Expand

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