History VideoGame / WorldInConflict

* PoisonIsEvil: The poison gas tactical aid is completely absent for player use in the story campaign for all 3 factions, despite the use of other controversial deatly munition types, including white phosphorus, napalm, and cluster bombs, all the way up to nukes. The only time chemical weapons are brought up is when the Spetsnaz intend to use the Statue of Liberty as a launch site, which never happens due to both victory and defeat in that objective resulting from the destruction of the Spetsnaz and their weapons.

** France: infantry, medium and transport helicopters, transport trucks, and air strikes involving the Mirage 2000.

* MultinationalTeam: The NATO faction is an amalgam of units from different Western European countries. Their heavy tank and artillery units are German, medium and light tanks and artillery units are British, infantry are French, attack helicopters are Italian and transports are Danish.

** The cover prominently features the Statue of Liberty under attack. While there is a mission in New York centered around a surprise attack on Liberty Island, most of the game takes place in Washington State.

* WarComesHome: As told by the TagLine. The protagonist perspective is American, and most of the campaign concerns him fighting against a Soviet invasion on American soil.

* PoisonIsEvil: The poison gas tactical aid is completely absent from the story campaign for all 3 factions, despite the use of other controversial deatly munition types, including white phosphorus, napalm, and cluster bombs, all the way up to nukes.

* BilingualBonus: Many unit barks are made in a language appropriate to their nationality. This is most noticeable with the NATO faction, which does not include two different unit types from the same country. German, French, Danish, Russian, English, Norwegian are but some of the languages spoken in the game, and most are recorded using native speakers.

''World in Conflict'' is lauded for its multiplayer, which has the player assume a specific role in combat, commanding only a small, specialized force on the battlefield and working together with the other players to win. The matches are fast-paced and map types are strongly influenced by FPS games, with modes such as Domination[[note]]the teams try to hold more control points than their rivals for as long as possible[[/note]] or Assault[[note]]the two teams take turns defending or assaulting the control points[[/note]]. Since there are no [[CommandAndConquerEconomy resources to gather]], the game is instead based around strategical control points that need to be captured.

* DifficultButAwesome: The Infantry multiplayer role. They have the slowest and squishiest units in the game, unless they've gotten to a good position providing cover -- which they likely need to use a fragile transport to reach -- at which point their cover fixes the squishiest part while it holds and the squad easily takes out anything nearby.

* ForeShadowing: Sebatier's lover dreamt [[spoiler:that he was killed, which is what happened in the next mission.]]

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Major Lebedev's father-in-law is apparently a very important man ([[spoiler:the Minister of Defense in fact]]), and Lebedev doesn't hesitate to use that connection to browbeat those around him. [[spoiler:In the end of the Soviet campaign, he uses it to make sure the battered remnants of Orlovsky's force get home.]]

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Major Lebedev's father-in-law is apparently a very important man, and Lebedev doesn't hesitate to use that connection to browbeat those around him. [[spoiler:In the end of the Soviet campaign, he uses it to make sure the battered remnants of Orlovsky's force get home. ]]

* RightManInTheWrongPlace: At least for the Soviets. Parker and Bannon were in Seattle, either visiting family or getting reassigned for just being in the area when the Soviets attack.

->''The war is coming home.''

An ExpansionPack was released in 2009, titled ''Soviet Assault''. The expansion added six new missions interwoven into the existing campaign that covered the Soviet side of the story, as well as four multiplayer maps which were later released for free. The expansion pack received mixed reviews, with many praising the Soviet campaign but noting the lack of new gameplay features.

* RealityEnsues: The Soviets may have seized large parts of Washington State in a surprise attack, but it gradually becomes obvious that for all their guns and tenacity, seizing a country as large and as hostile as the US by conventional means is a fool's errand. Lampshaded by Colonel Orlovsky, who by the time the Americans have launched their offensive to liberate Seattle has given up on any notion of victory (thanks in no small part to the nuke used on Cascade Falls), even with the incoming Chinese armada. This is in stark contrast to the Soviet propaganda that insists that the Red Army has encroached half the country (including their neighbors Canada and Mexico), where in reality the Soviets are under constant fire from a rebelling populace and unable to expand their campaign beyond Washington.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The game depicts China as a willing ally of the USSR in their invasion of the USA. This however fails to take into account the existence of the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s, which led to China pursuing an independent foreign policy and rapprochement towards the US. Sino-Soviet relations remained hostile and only improved in the early 1990s, and even if it happened earlier, it is unlike that China would follow their old enemy into a global war, especially considering that up until the 2000s China lacked a blue water navy.

* InfantImmortality: Mostly played straight onscreen; however, the occasional presence of children amid such scenes of open war, particularly in one cutscene where a little girl stops her bike and watches the Soviet paratroopers rain down from the sky are sobering reminders that yes, children are not free from the horrors of war. Those who live to tell of what they see inevitably lose all childhood innocence.