IGN has posted up a brand new article today taking a first look at this highly anticipated "expansion" pack to World in Conflict, Soviet Assault. Check it out below:
To check out the rest of this first look at Soviet Assault, visit here.
The most important thing to note is Soviet Assault is not an expansion pack for the PC. According to Jansen, it will be more like a downloadable mission pack that will be offered at a lower price than a standard expansion pack. After World in Conflict shipped, Massive heard a lot of feedback from gamers complaining that it had too much of a pro-US perspective, or that it lacked a Soviet campaign. So the designers went to work creating a Red Army plot, missions, and characters. But these missions aren't designed to support a stand-alone campaign. Instead, they're being interwoven with the existing World in Conflict campaign. If you buy Soviet Assault, you'll replay the World in Conflict campaign with the new Red Army missions integrated into it. Those missions will offer another point of view at different parts in the story. It's sort of like how Call of Duty 4's narrative alternated between central characters.
Since Massive is currently working on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, console gamers will now get this expanded campaign in the box when those versions ship. This expanded campaign is basically the new official World in Conflict campaign.
Also, Jansen wanted to make clear that Soviet Assault will be completely unnecessary if you just want to play the game online. All multiplayer maps and features are made available for free to all World in Conflict customers, regardless of whether they buy Soviet Assault or not. Massive doesn't want to segregate its online player base into two. But if you really liked the single-player World in Conflict experience and you want more, then you should definitely buy Soviet Assault.
Since Massive is currently working on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, console gamers will now get this expanded campaign in the box when those versions ship. This expanded campaign is basically the new official World in Conflict campaign.
Also, Jansen wanted to make clear that Soviet Assault will be completely unnecessary if you just want to play the game online. All multiplayer maps and features are made available for free to all World in Conflict customers, regardless of whether they buy Soviet Assault or not. Massive doesn't want to segregate its online player base into two. But if you really liked the single-player World in Conflict experience and you want more, then you should definitely buy Soviet Assault.
To check out the rest of this first look at Soviet Assault, visit here.
So if I've understood it correctly this is a campaign that will be included in the console versions but that PC gamers will have to pay for? Hrrmmm.....
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