War Thunder

 PC
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3.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1908 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 590 out of 1908
  2. Mixed: 203 out of 1908
  3. Negative: 1,115 out of 1908

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  1. aavvtt
    Feb 18, 2020
    0
    Most of all in this game I was disappointed with the graphics, and everything else did not like it, so I do not recommend playing it.
  2. rizer21
    Oct 15, 2019
    0
    Honestly, I didn’t really like the game. An incredible amount of bugs constantly crashes. And to be honest, updates come out almost empty.
  3. DimkaUA
    Oct 14, 2020
    1
    War Thunder - "раньше было лучше"... Почему? Всё просто, игра получает обновления и постепенно отходит от первоначальной идеи - создания серьёзного проекта про военную технику 2й Мировой войны. На первый взгляд кажется, что всё неплохо, НО изначально разработчики держались позиции, что "если техника принимала участие в боях - она в игре, а если только проектировалась - ей места нет".War Thunder - "раньше было лучше"... Почему? Всё просто, игра получает обновления и постепенно отходит от первоначальной идеи - создания серьёзного проекта про военную технику 2й Мировой войны. На первый взгляд кажется, что всё неплохо, НО изначально разработчики держались позиции, что "если техника принимала участие в боях - она в игре, а если только проектировалась - ей места нет". Waffentragger, Maus (этот ещё ладно, как-никак в музее 1 есть...) Но это не самая главная проблема, разработчики начали ввод техники "послевоенной" (Т64(Б), Абрамс и пр.) тем самым убили и так слабый баланс, и ещё более важное - атмосферу. Теперь это непонятные "танцы" Тигров с 64-кой... ИС-2 с Абрамсом... И смех и грех, как говорится. Доходность в игре (внутриигровой валюты) сведена к тому, что без покупки премиум-аккаунта играть не сложно, а скорее невозможно. С графикой тут лучше чем в World of Tanks и другими проектами WG (которые пытаются догнать Gaijin, но это кажется смешным и бессмысленным). Сообщество у игры крайне малое, соответственно о нём и говорить нечего. Обновления относительно частые, НО редко интересные, и ещё реже - полезные, как и в остальных Free-проектах ориентированы на увеличение платного контента, цены на который тут неоправданно завышены. Отзывчивость ЦПП на низком уровне (опять-же как и у большинства Free to play (или Pay-to-win) проектов. В радость остались только разделение режимов (аркада, реалистичный и симуляторный режимы), в остальном всё печально. Так-же необъяснимо долгий и затянутый тест морской техники (при чём доступ к ней можно получить ТОЛЬКО при покупке пакета дополнения). Рекомендовать играть именно в этот проект не буду ни в коем случае.
    UPD 2020... Время идет, но в игре изменений нет... Было всё плохо... Стало ещё хуже! Постоянные "падения" серверов и т.д. только участились. Количество боев с абсурдным подбором техники в 5 раз стало чаще... Графикой проект на данный момент уже похвалиться не может, физикой - тем более! Хотя что я вам рассказываю? Разве есть хоть 1 нормальный проект от разработчиков из России? Думаю нет.    … Expand
  4. igor1982
    Oct 18, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game did not like. Graphics no, all around advertising, in General, you need to try better when creating games, and here you can see everything is done on tyap-blooper.… Expand
  5. Matarari
    Nov 21, 2019
    0
    There is some kind of trouble with the game. It just does not start. Is that ok, what do you think? disappointment.
  6. Mark159
    Nov 26, 2019
    0
    I lost a lot of time in this boring game, it became boring in 10 minutes. Poor graphics, boring monotonous gameplay, online orientation, the absence of any meaning.
  7. JackBosh
    Nov 26, 2019
    0
    Honestly, the game didn’t impress me at all. The graphics and gameplay are bad, it lags far behind modern games
  8. Zungrix
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    The game engine and the visuals are the only interesting things in this game.
  9. Mark18
    Nov 22, 2019
    0
    The horror! The graphics are bad and the gameplay is too. How did you make this game? Not like the game!
  10. Alex192
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    A terrible game, the gameplay is boring, annoying after 10 minutes of the game. The graphics are terrible.
  11. Alex1071
    Oct 15, 2019
    0
    Honestly it`s a very bad game. Gameplay is a **** This game have no balance, just no **** balance! Bad battle rating. And about the graphics - are 20 years behind. A mobile games is more beautiful than this game!
  12. MickThomson
    Sep 25, 2019
    0
    The game did not like at all, the plot is boring and confusing, the graphics are ten years behind, just a shame. About the gameplay is just as bad as everything else, it is not possible to play this!
  13. Floglor
    Sep 16, 2018
    4
    There is battle rating system in this game, which used as balancing component. This means that if you are driving a vehicle with a combat rating of 4.0, you will be put against more or less the same. But! When I was playing at 4,7, I was constantly losing battles against 5,7, which are dramatically higher. Even if I could penetrate some tanks at higher ranks, sometimes there wereThere is battle rating system in this game, which used as balancing component. This means that if you are driving a vehicle with a combat rating of 4.0, you will be put against more or less the same. But! When I was playing at 4,7, I was constantly losing battles against 5,7, which are dramatically higher. Even if I could penetrate some tanks at higher ranks, sometimes there were situations when I turned more slowly than others drove through the horizon.

    It's not all. Lions and eagles. Game constantly turning into the P2W arcade when you see camouflage bushes for dorrars, which can hide your vulnerable zones, and P2W tanks, which are put lower in that BR gauge, than it needs to be, because you need to win when you are paying, right?

    Lions. When you've already got the amount of exp to get a tank, you need to win so much more to get the lions to buy this tank. You do not like it? Pay for it.

    Aircraft are allowed to participate in tank battles. They get more for killing and for them the game gives more lions. I thought then that I go into the tank mode of the game, but it turned out to be a mistake.

    I'm not talking about airplanes, because I've played enough in this mode, and the game on them is not very interesting. Also in aircraft mode very much decides the amount of money invested in the game. For example, a paid aircraft destroyed 100 enemy aircraft in a mode against bots, when the second after it shot down just 38...    … Expand
  14. JhonnyD
    Nov 26, 2019
    0
    And you think you create the best game? So dumb sreenplay, no logic. Just waste ur time to play dis game. Delete it!
  15. Leonid48
    Nov 22, 2019
    0
    Hello. Decided to leave a review about this game. I didn't like the game. Gameplay is terrible. Graphics are complete **** My score is below zero.
  16. Rektangle
    Nov 5, 2019
    0
    Came back for few days to see how thing goes. It's great now. P2W as usual, russian BS, uptiered BS.... Now with gaijin sucking on Ching's dick we have China BS. The game overall is just about money. On tier 1, at BR 1.3 you still can get uptiered and have to face one of the most BS creation of gaijin "B1-ter".

    DO NOT TRUST "critics" reviews and scores in any game review sites. It's    Came back for few days to see how thing goes. It's great now. P2W as usual, russian BS, uptiered BS.... Now with gaijin sucking on Ching's dick we have China BS. The game overall is just about money. On tier 1, at BR 1.3 you still can get uptiered and have to face one of the most BS creation of gaijin "B1-ter".

    DO NOT TRUST "critics" reviews and scores in any game review sites. It's paid content    … Expand
  17. PaulBendtner90
    Nov 22, 2019
    0
    I did not like the fact that modern tanks are inaccessible - for example, the Leopard or Abrams tank. It is impossible to get similar armored vehicles without investing money. This is disrespectful to the players. Too high computer requirements for graphics, which leaves much to be desired.
  18. Kent92
    Dec 9, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Hello! I want to share my opinion, the game is just awful and very boring, the graphics are like in the Stone Age. I do not recommend losing your time.… Expand
  19. Aragona
    Dec 3, 2019
    0
    Who writes about a good game, did you even download and open it? This is impossible to do simply!
  20. TonyNerkassky
    Feb 18, 2020
    0
    I just don't know who might like this game! Gameplay, graphics, and everything else-complete garbage. Well, it was necessary to do this!
  21. Meldenson
    Sep 24, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A very boring game. A long pumping of the account, without donation it's hard to play. The gameplay wants the best. Graphics at maximum performance freezes. Although my computer is powerful.… Expand
  22. Vadim123456789
    Nov 21, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I downloaded the game recently and right away something is wrong. I do not recommend this game because it is not interesting.… Expand
  23. timafey
    Oct 22, 2019
    0
    А мне почему-то игра не понравилась, графика не особо хороша, да и дизайн хромает. К тому же, постоянно ошибки...
  24. Dav_Sar45
    Oct 3, 2019
    0
    I really like to play computer games. When the game came out, I started playing, but I did not like the design and graphics of the game.
  25. Banan4ik22
    Sep 16, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Довольно долго играл в этот шлак. Игра за последнее время скатилась, куча доната, ваншоты (это не есть круто) и миллион причин в нее не играть. Короче жаль потраченного времени.… Expand
  26. Kassu
    May 26, 2020
    2
    I have been playing this game for 5 years now and I am sad to say that while this game is fun and interesting offering something different than most other games it has multiple flaws with it. First of all the game has numerous bugs, game design and balance issues are not addressed or are handled with absolute no regard of what it is going to do to the game. Bugs, a lot of them, are justI have been playing this game for 5 years now and I am sad to say that while this game is fun and interesting offering something different than most other games it has multiple flaws with it. First of all the game has numerous bugs, game design and balance issues are not addressed or are handled with absolute no regard of what it is going to do to the game. Bugs, a lot of them, are just left alone for months years or not fixed at all and this includes even some game breaking ones for example armor penetration when you shoot at someone and you should be able to penetrate their armor with ease it just either bounces or does not penetrate or vice versa when you are supposed to be able to withstand a hit from someone and it just goes straight throw. Then there is also the occasional disappearing shot where you fire your gun and the shot just goes into the void doing nothing. This has been going on for the entire time I have played the game so about 4 years.
    The game design is pretty much done by a 3-year-old since in most cases the map design encourages the players to spawn camp instead of playing the planned objective just because you are either able to shoot straight into your enemies spawn from your own spawn or their spawn is closer and easier to get to than the actual objective. In most maps where the layout is like this the side who gets to spawn camping first usually wins. In the air on the other hand playing as a bomber and trying to win by destroying the enemies bombing targets just does not happen since first you have to take out the primary targets 3-4 of them and for most bombers that takes between half or the entire bomb load they can carry (Only 2 bombers in the game have their real max bomb load the rest can only carry about between a third to half of the real one) then you have to make it all the way back to your own air field to rearm while the entire enemy team and their mothers are pretty much right on you trying to shoot you down and in most cases this is exactly what happens. After that they expect you to repeat the same trip to enemy bombing targets 3-5 times per player in order to destroy the remaining bombing targets. Needless to say that does not happen. So now the bombers are close to useless and don't really help you win the match.
    Game balance is mainly handled in game by something called battle rating or br and has some problems of its own. The way it works is that when you get into a match you can not be put up against vehicles that are over 1 br higher than lower than your highest br vehicle the thing is that because the top br is limited to 10.0 and the game vehicles range from vehicles from the 1920's to modern it causes a lot of brs to become cramped because they are trying to force vehicles into that narrow window and this results in vehicles being put up against something that they just simply can not compete. For example the br 5.7-6.7-7.7 is a good example since vehicles at 5.7 are relatively balanced against other vehicles of their won tier and even against some lower br vehicles but as soon as they encounter vehicles from 6.7 it all goes down the drain since in most cases they are better armored and armed to a huge extent and the same happens when 6.7 meets 7.7. 6.7 is dominated by heavily armored tanks that rely on their armor to stay alive but at 7.7 they go up against post war main battle tanks that will penetrate them in most cases at the thickest point easily. And this type of balancing goes on all the way to top tier 10.0. Another way they try to balance a tank because it just won't fit into their br system is by making its repair cost higher and this is to the point that some vehicles are just not meant to be played. Some vehicles have their repair cost set so high that in order for you to be able to afford get killed in one you will have to pretty much carry your team through the entire match and I am talking about multiple kills, assists and capture points or bombing in order to just be able to pay the repair cost. Just sometimes do they decide that balancing something means changing its statistics and in most cases they will either nerf it to oblivion or buff it to the point where it will make anything it faces wonder why are they even trying to compete against it. And then there are the vehicles they won't even touch and in most cases they are either event or premiums and are just simply OP but it is to the point where most people just ignore them because Gaijins biggest flaw which is not communicating with the player base which my friend made into a dialog.
    TL:TR
    Gaijin : New sh*t comrade
    Players: I want the game to be optimized a little bi-
    Gaijin : NEW PREMIUM BLYAT!!!
    Players: No ı want the game to be more stabil
    Gaijin : TIER 7 TANKS OK!!!
    Players: No it needs more time game is ba-
    Gaijin : BLYAT!!! YOU BUY PREMIUM!!!
    Players: Fix the f***ing ass of a combat system of Aır RB and Ground battles as a whol-
    Gaijin : Free Abrams?    … Expand
  27. German17
    Nov 27, 2019
    0
    This is the most boring and awful game I've ever played. No logic. Bad graphic. An incredible amount of bugs.
  28. Stass2
    Feb 11, 2020
    0
    I absolutely did not like this game. The graphics and gameplay are just awful . I don't advise anyone.
  29. kevinbrown
    Jul 15, 2018
    0
    My friends and I couldn't even get passed through the menu after 40 minutes. Terrible interface. Unplayable.
  30. itsselixio
    Mar 1, 2019
    4
    mensen zeggen dat het een goede wo2 simuator is op dat aspect doet het zn ding maar de mensen achter het spel willen al je geld uit je zuigen met microtransacties het verbaasd me dat dit spel niet door EA is gemaakt. ik weet dat het een free to play spel is maar als je kjkt naar andere spellen kun je ook gewoon skins of andere dingen die niet de gameplay of het progresie systeem beinvloeden.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Jan 25, 2017
    87
    One of the cornerstones of War Thunder is that player’s skill is more important than his wallet. Premium vehicles offer no combat advantages, there is no “microtransaction-only” ammo or consumables, so no amount of cash will buy you a spot on the top of the food chain. [Issue#216, p.56]
  2. GRYOnline.pl
    Jan 13, 2017
    75
    The official launch of War Thunder reminded me why I like this game so much. It's adorably chaotic - in contrast to the reliably designed World of Tanks. That's why it can be really fun and frustrating at the same time. There's tons of great vehicles (and the planes are superb!) and a difficult simulation mode, but there are also balance and technical issues.
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  3. CalmDownTom
    Aug 14, 2014
    90
    Overall the War Thunder tank battles are great even at this early stage.
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