UGO writes: "Real-time Strategy games have, traditionally, sucked on consoles. Mostly it has to do with them being slapped together from a PC version and forcing all the versatility of a mouse and keyboard onto a handful of buttons on a console controller. Admittedly the concern was there in checking out World of Conflict on the 360, but within a short while of playing the game, it seemed much more palpable than any other RTS we've seen on a console.
Apart from the controls, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault features a bunch of new single-player campaign missions, played from the point of view of the Ruskies. It's not a seperate campaign, as these missions are intersperced among the US campaign of the first game, but it does help to tell a fuller story for people who missed out. Apart from those missions, though, it's pretty much the same solid content that was on the PC version."
Starting today (18.00 hours) until 23 December, players will download free World in Conflict (including expander Soviet Assault), Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Watch Dogs for PC via Uplay. More ...
I've collected quite a number of free games on UPlay. I can't say I'm the biggest fan of its bloated platform, but they have been pretty generous w freebies if you've kept up with their mailing list over time.
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.
WOW! COH: Gold and World In Conflict: Gold for $10 is a STEAL! I already have the Original COH but none of the expansion packs so this is great!
Too bad D2D thinks the world is only USA, Canada, UK and Mexico. These region restrictions are an invite to piracy.
Worth Playing:
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault is a little difficult to score because there are two different versions of the game that cater to two very different crowds. On one hand, you have the $20 expansion pack, which adds six campaign missions and two multiplayer maps. The other version costs $30 and includes the original World in Conflict. There are clearly two audiences being targeted here, and the more loyal one seems to be getting the raw end of the deal. The six new missions are not worth $20, and aside from the six additional missions, Soviet Assault changes nothing else in the World in Conflict formula.