WarGaming.net Announces World of Tanks
Sick of elves, orcs and high fantasy? Aliens, spaceships and warp drives got you down? Normal people doing weird things bore you? Would some good old-fashioned tank-based destruction liven this party up? WarGaming.net certainly hopes so, because the company announced an all new F2P MMOG based on that very premise.
World of Tanks will band 30 players together and task them with achieving victory on the fields of PvP battle. The game is to feature over 150 armored vehicles, ranging from slow, infantry supporting pre-WW2 tanks to the blitzkrieg machines of WW2 and the versatile war machines made up to and including the Korean War. The vehicles come from the top three tank creators, the United States, Germany and Soviet Russia.
Fear not, you will not have to stick with just one mechanic means of destruction. Players can house an “endless number” of vehicles in their garage, and all of them can be upgraded. Turrets, chassis, guns, engines, radios, ammo types and even crew members can be upgraded.
Unlike WarGaming.net’s tactical Massive Assault Network, World of Tanks is set to offer fast-paced battles. Modes include mini-campaigns steeped in history, tournaments, and massive Clan Wars (the end game) that span “hundreds of provinces.”
“A wise gentleman once observed that men had the same relationship to tanks, as women to SPA treatments: an all-eclipsing love, hardwired into the genes,” says Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net, “That’s why we are coming up with Panzer MMO.”
World of Tanks is expected to release in fall 2010.
Seems like some PR person realized how successful Global Agenda‘s marketing strategy was.
Something like a year ago I saw this teaser at the Russian GDC, where Wargaming announced the game for Russia, and I had a talk with their producer too. They had a bunch of plans for this game – seems like they’ll come true very soon.