Genre: Client games, MMO Action
Features: In Russian, Cross-platform, World War II, Simulators, Aviasimulators, Popular, Military, Tank, Oculus Rift, PVP, Russian, Linux, Mac OS
Status: Started
Payment: Free-to-play
Developer: Gaijin Entertainment
Publisher: Gaijin Entertainment
Release date: 03 October 2012
Website: http://warthunder.ru/
War Thunder
War Thunder is a multiplayer simulator of battles of the Second World, in which players participate in ground and air battles. The project is a direct competitor of a series of games from the Belarusian company Wargaming, which includes the notorious World of Tanks, World of Warplanes and World of Warships.
Fights in the War Thunder are in-session, and the pumping takes place by the discovery of new models of aircraft and tanks. Here everything revolves around the development of the crews. In the Angara there is an unlimited number of slots, but you can only open them by purchasing the appropriate crew. After this, each crew is assigned an airplane or a tank. The crew’s pumping system is very deep and implies a constant increase in the skills of drivers, pilots, technicians and shooters.
Techniques in War Thunder are very many (only the aircraft in the game there are more than 170 pieces) and it is represented by five countries: Japan, USSR, USA, Germany and Great Britain. Most of the battles in the game are somehow interconnected, allowing one to face both air and ground commands on the same card.
Online flight simulator with amazing graphics!
Starting as a flight simulator, the War Thunder project from the Russian studio Gaijin quickly turned into a very interesting mixture of air and tank fights. So far, the ground component of the game is significantly behind the air, which is not surprising, given the number of flying hours that beta testers have been flying over the past months. However, the potential of this mixture is enormous.
The game covers a significant period of time. In the fleet of aircraft there are not only all known models of fighters, ground attack and bombers of the Second World War, but also awkward bookshelves, exotic German heavy fighters and even jet planes that appeared only for the Korean War.
Game modes in War Thunder several pieces. The most simple and popular is the arcade battle, in which two teams are fighting on fictitious cards. Each player here is allowed to take several planes into battle. The next regime is historical battles, in which concrete nations fight, and the tasks of the teams are close to the real ones. Here you have to take off from the airfields or aircraft carriers, which also have to return if you somehow miraculously shot all the cartridges and at the same time survived. The last mode is user battles, where the rules are set by the players themselves – in this mode, pilots usually train in a team game.
As for tanks, until recently they were controlled by unpretentious AI and in most cases were the background for air battles. At the same time, a large number of missions were tied to ground targets, where players had to support their “own” bots, dropping bombs on someone else’s equipment. It was not easy to get on tanks before, but now, when live players have settled in them, everything has become much more complicated. Now, in order to disable the tank, it is not enough to drop the bomb “somewhere near” – from the pilot it requires a filigree execution of the attacking maneuver with a mandatory hit exactly in the target.
Moreover, the current situation in War Thunder is such that the tank can easily knock down the aircraft, and sometimes this trick is even easier to crank than blowing the tank from the air. But everything depends on the hands of the players. Fans of realism can scornfully scoff (after all, during the war, tanks shot down by tanks were very few), but it should be borne in mind that pilots in War Thunder can afford to fly very close to the ground, which in reality no one, of course, did.
