World of Speed and Armored Warfare highlight the visit to the My.Com meeting room
As I made my way into the My.Com meeting room, there was a calm and subdued atmosphere where you could actually hear yourself think. I have been in meeting rooms in the past where there was loud music playing and you could barely hear what was being said. Anyway, I got my hands on World of Speed and Armored Warfare so let’s get right into it.
Armored Warfare was up first from My.Com and the game looks good graphically, for a PC game. However, the keyboard controls are a little confusing if you aren’t familiar with PC games. I found myself pressing the button on the keyboard that would lock my tank because of a previously discovered programming issue. Anyway, there are different tanks to choose from and they each have different skills/abilities. Tanks have heavy armor and can take damage, recon vehicles can scout the area and can’t take that much damage just to name a couple.
The game has co-op play and your team works together to complete tasks/missions. Different vehicles have different missions like the tanks can ram/destroy enemies and they get bonus points/completed challenges for things like that. The tank I used didn’t have precise long-range attacks so it was tough to attack from far away but I was able to take damage, with my heavy armor. All and all, Armored Warfare got me out of my comfort zone and I would recommend it to anyone who is into PC games.
Also being shown at the My.Com booth was World of Speed, a racing MMO. World of Speed is like your typical racing game if your typical racing game and RPG aspects to it, such as customization. In the game, you can achieve different missions/objectives while racing so it isn’t all about whom wins said race. You and your friends can join/create clubs and have club colors/symbols on the cars and really look like a team.
Speaking of visuals, you can customize your car pretty much anyway you want. You can have different colors to make the car look badass or you can have different parts on the car to also make the car look badass. What is key to the customization is that how the car is customized won’t hurt the driving ability. Why should the game change by how the car looks? Also, every part has pros and cons that help and hurt during a race.
You might need a certain part because your mission is to drift the most, stuff like that. Once you’ve familiarized yourself with the controls, you’ll be driving like a pro. It was tough to stop on a dime and make a quick turn but that was because I wasn’t familiar with the course. I felt the controls were a little overcomplicated like practically every button on the controller had an action. Racing games don’t need to be complicated. Some of the courses are based on real places, like San Francisco and London. The Beta will be active at some point this year and the game will be free to play. Like Armored Warfare, I would recommend World of Speed to someone who is already a PC gamer.
