Wargaming.net announces new World of Warplanes MMO

Supernatural · Jun 16, 2011

After rising success with their first game World of Tanks, Wargaming.net announced new WW2 themed MMO featuring Airplanes.

Wargaming.net’s big announcement at E3 was World of Warplanes, and the big question on many World of Tanks players’ minds is whether they’ll have to deal with divebombing Stukas. While the two games might share two-thirds of a name, don’t expect the two games to share much linkage right off the bat. “We don’t want to say this is a spinoff of World of Tanks,” Wargaming.net’s CEO Victor Kislyi explained.
“This is not an add-on, this is a separate, standalone game.”

World of Warplanes is currently in development at Wargaming.net’s partner studio Lesta, one of Russia’s better known games studios specializing in modern military games. Their 2006 title Pacific Storm was perhaps the first Russian-made WWII grand strategy game to make it to US shelves, but didn’t sell well due in part to lackluster graphics. As evidenced by World of Tanks, Russian studios have closed the graphics gap, and Lesta is developing WoWP in their new Kiev studio, currently with no timetable set.

According to Victor, WoWP will follow the same “successful formula” Wargaming.net used for World of Tanks: subscription-free with no bashfulness about premium perks, loads of variety in planes and loadouts, and match-based mechanics designed to see players make progress in the space of 10-15 minutes. But, surprisingly, WoWP will likely have even more variety than World of Tanks will ever offer. “At the end of the day, we’ll do around 400 different tanks – French, British, Czechoslovakian, Japanese, Polish, enhanced Russian, German, and American trees with special prototypes. Period warplanes, on the other hand, number in the thousands – at least two to three thousand.
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Source: https://www.facebook.com/WorldOfTanks

Supernatural · Aug 1, 2011

If you're curious about Wargaming.net's upcoming World of Warplanes MMO, Gamescom 2011 is the place to be. The World War II-based flight simulator's gameplay will be shown for the first time at the convention in Cologne, Germany from August 17th to August 21st.

World of Warplanes was initially announced during this year's E3, but no media, gameplay footage, or web presence has been forthcoming as of yet.

Wargaming.net will also be holding an open World of Tanks tournament at Gamescom, and the company has plans to announce its newest development project, according to a press release issued this morning.
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