By Jim Rossignol on August 9th, 2011 at 7:50 am.
Skybound aviation-based sequel to World Of Tanks is gaining some momentum now, as the World Of Warplanes website appears. It just contains a snippet of information and a bunch of screenshots so far, but we’ll be expecting to learn much more about the game come GamesCom next week. For my part, however, I am not expecting this to be quite as outrageously popular as World Of Tanks, with its millions of sign-ups. I think it’ll do okay, but there was something just right about a purely tank-based game, which I am not sure will be true of air-war…
09/08/2011 at 08:00 Antsy says:
Air Attack on wireplay was utterly brilliant and caused me to fork over hundreds of pounds, hand over fist, to BT’s pay-per-minute dial up internet service in the late ’90s.
If this is half as good it’ll be worth a look. Joystick support please!
09/08/2011 at 23:36 Arathain says:
I miss my Hurricane from Air Attack still. If this will let me fly a Hurri I’m in.
09/08/2011 at 08:03 CaspianRoach says:
Is IL-2 Shturmovik not good enough for people who enjoy this kind of games?
09/08/2011 at 08:28 MrMud says:
If World of Tanks is anything to go by then it is to simmy
09/08/2011 at 08:43 dsi1 says:
Is it going to be as poorly balanced as WoT?
09/08/2011 at 08:58 Anthile says:
It’s not poorly balanced if you’re rich!
09/08/2011 at 08:53 Magnetude says:
World of War____
09/08/2011 at 08:59 ziusudra says:
Wot is one hell of a fun game. Iam curious how this one will turn out. ( game modes………..)
09/08/2011 at 09:11 BooleanBob says:
It’s the impending announcement of the integration of the two which is going to make you pass the proverbial building materials.
09/08/2011 at 09:20 Dodger says:
The game’s title confuses me…is this a World of Warcraft expansion? I should probably buy it for that reason alone.
09/08/2011 at 09:22 Merus says:
Certainly planes are cool, but I was hoping that they’d expand the scope of World of Tanks a bit, zoom out a little and really focus on the craft of war.
I guess they couldn’t work out what to call it.
09/08/2011 at 09:24 Antsy says:
So, World of Warships next?
09/08/2011 at 09:48 Dood says:
Yes, please!
09/08/2011 at 10:31 Malkara says:
Already exists, it’s called NavyField.
09/08/2011 at 12:30 Antsy says:
Meh.
09/08/2011 at 13:49 feffrey says:
Nope it is World of Battleships.
No joke, they are making that after WoWP
http://forums.goharu.com/showthread.php?p=152#post152
09/08/2011 at 14:13 Davee says:
I’m already playing Clan Wars in WoT, but dang – the things said in that interview makes me exited!
Connecting the three games into one big global map and make it harder to control everything for the big clans? Hell yes! I’m starting to like where Wargaming.net is going with this.
09/08/2011 at 09:44 SprintJack says:
According to devs is Beta supposed to start this year. Damn i can’t wait.
09/08/2011 at 09:51 Big Daddy Dugger says:
Incoming Activision-Blizzard legal suit over the title. “We were planning on world of warplanes being released in game next patch!”
09/08/2011 at 10:37 Shadowcat says:
You think? I would have put them the other way around. I mean, how many kids dreamed of being an ace pilot? Millions, right? Now, how many dreamed of being in a tank? I just can’t imagine that second number being anything like as high; tanks simply aren’t remotely so romantic.
09/08/2011 at 10:53 Kelron says:
I’d love to have a quick, accessible multiplayer dogfighting game.
09/08/2011 at 11:45 SprintJack says:
Indeed. I see no reason for this scepticism.
09/08/2011 at 11:55 patricij says:
I DID! It’s romantic before you know the average operational time in WW2 was under a minute or so, it’s a bit stuffy&smelly inside and if you are a gunner you need to do a lot of mathematical equations…
09/08/2011 at 11:08 westyfield says:
So is this the one that’s being made by the World of Tanks guys, or is that World of ‘Planes? I get so confused.
09/08/2011 at 12:02 Real Horrorshow says:
World of Tanks is fun.
But this… this is going to be goddamn epic.
And then after this they need to do World of Sail with 18th century naval battles.
09/08/2011 at 12:05 Antsy says:
And then World of Oar! Can’t wait to skill up my drum guy, whip guy, and rowers!
09/08/2011 at 13:11 Shadowcat says:
World of Oarcraft, you say?
09/08/2011 at 12:22 Panzeh says:
I hope they have tailgunners in this game for those 2-engine fighters.
09/08/2011 at 15:13 Real Horrorshow says:
That reminds me, I dont get the point of ground attack aircraft being in this if its all air focused. Maybe game modes where one team has to destroy a target?
Probably not. Knowing WoT, ground attack planes like the IL-2 will be made “heavy planes”
09/08/2011 at 14:01 Daiv says:
When, like Stephen Hawking, your two forms of interaction with the world are ramming and firing a 152mm cannon, the most important factor is positioning.
Contrast this to the “get within range and mash 15 ability hotkeys in arcane sequences” of WoW PvP and I think this is the key to WoT’s success.
Unfortunately I can’t see how this applies to a World of Warplanes.
09/08/2011 at 17:40 Snuffy the Evil says:
It’s very much the same, except that you generally have to get above your target as well as behind them.
09/08/2011 at 15:22 Eightball says:
I hope we won’t have to fly P-40′s against ME-262′s…
But if they give out free gold in beta I’ll be happy to play for a spell.
09/08/2011 at 17:30 Dana says:
I salute you for not using term “MMO” in this news. You are truly a tomahawk of truth in the skull of lies.
09/08/2011 at 17:55 Torgen says:
Actually, there are tons of sim pilots from Warbirds and Aces High (who also play IL-2 Sturmovik) whom I know personally, who are WoT subscribers.
There’s the possibility of having people who are hard-core flight sim folk ignoring WoWP because it goes against how flight sims “should” be, and we have the sim pilots fighting the ground war, and the folks with no sim background fighting the air war.
Also, who’s going to pay triple subscriptions to play in all three games? Will you need mixed clans in order to hold territory? Guess we’ll find out if enough new people are brought in to overcome the fragmenting of the existing player base.
09/08/2011 at 20:08 Dana says:
Indeed, I as a Il1946 vet im looking forward for WoW (cough), will play through beta but most likely not in release because of its grindy nature.
09/08/2011 at 23:16 Kerbobotat says:
im genuinely more excited about this than i was for World of Tanks, given the choice, I preffer my cramped, smelly and overtly dangerous War-Machine to be a few thousand feet off the ground than sunk halfway into it.