For those of you who may not know, the World in Conflict open beta was recently released to the public, and has been active for the past few days. I’ve played through the beta for the entire day today, and the following are my thoughts on it – ranging everywhere from simple audio, to graphics and even matters of units balance.

It’s primary a multiplayer beta, but after starting it up for the first time, I could see just from the menu; the music and the news bites playing in the background that it’s single-player must be incredibly well detailed. Simply sitting for a moment through those little snippets of news gives a sense of awe and fear just because of how real they sound. The music doesn’t reduce this feeling any, and just adds to the whole thing. Accessing the multiplayer demo is easy enough – I had no troubles with the Massgate registration, nor with the code. Starting up the game and joining in was as simple as logging in and hitting ‘play’.

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