Genre: Client games, MMORPG, MMO Action
Features: In Russian, Cross-platform, Religious, World War II, Popular, Military, Tank, Russian, Cybersport, Mac OS
Status: Started
Payment: Free-to-play
Developer: Wargaming.net
Publisher: Wargaming.net
Release date: October 10, 2010
Website: http://worldoftanks.ru/
World of Tanks
World of Tanks – the most popular Russian Action MMORPG, where players fight in large-scale tank battles. The game presents all tanks of the Second World War, as well as self-propelled artillery
Studio Wargaming.net managed to become famous for a couple of turn-based strategies, as well as one RTS called Order of War. The more surprising was the somewhat sudden decision of the leadership to take up the development of a free2play game where players in online mode destroy each other on tanks. Nevertheless, the World of Tanks came out and immediately won just huge popularity, both in Russia and abroad.
Dealing with the genre of the game is no less difficult than climbing a tank up the stairs. It seems to be an action movie, but where are the heaps of meat and bones? Here, only heaps of iron are observed. Plus, from each fight conducted, experience and money are charged. And this smacks of MMORPG. However, this game is session, like the same DotA. I went in, bent down, went out. Therefore, the closest relative of this Russian project is better called Navy Field, where we also grow a character and buy him clothes and weapons.
It turns out that a tank can also grow if it is a food for him to add experience and money. Initially, the game at our disposal is only a small MC-1, which has only one dream – to return to the field as a peaceful tractor. More serious cars follow, some of which can move our “peasant” and not even blink an eye.
In the World of Tanks there is a division into classes. There are cars here that are designed for frontal attack. However, heavy tanks, although striking with their power, can not do anything themselves. They are quickly surrounded and “stoned”. A heavy tank has only one role – to absorb the damage. Attack should be other machines. Somewhere in the base area are self-propelled guns. This is artillery, which is inactive, but can shoot a canopy across the entire map. Have you noticed the goal? The artilleryman on the map appears a red dot, in which a second later a heavy projectile flies. Light targets are used to “illuminate” targets. They are peculiar scouts with weak armor and a small cannon, but fast caterpillars. The average tanks are the most universal class. These guys can come in from the rear, and break down in a frontal attack.
An important component of the World of Tanks is the “pumping”. Each duel brings you a certain amount of experience and money. To sit on a new tank, you’ll have to learn all the related equipment: a cannon, an engine, a tower, a radio and so on. In this case, you do not interfere with the development of several branches at once. For example, heavy tanks and artillery. However, in this case, getting to your shushpantzer dreams will have much longer.
More recently, developers have introduced a global mode of play, where the best clans compete for the right to own territories. This led to even more confusion about the genre of the game. In fact, today the World of Tanks combines several genres at once. This is an arcade shooter, and MMORPG, and even MMORTS (at least for the founders of the clans). Not surprisingly, this game has become so popular, because everyone can find something to taste in it.
