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War World: Tactical Combat (also known as simply War World) is a 3D mech combat simulator game developed and published by Australian company Third Wave Games (who are made up of former Rare alumni who have been involved in the development of such games as Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, and others).

It was released on Microsoft Windows in 2005, and 2008 for the Xbox Live Arcade service.

A version for the original Xbox was planned but got cancelled.

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The story revolves around a planet within the Milky Way galaxy known as WarWorld.

This planet has been under perpetual conflict throughout its known history over various reasons (ranging from religious differences to territorial disputes to blood feuds between different sects of the inhabitants).

However, eventually the largest groups of these people would form into corporate entities and would establish several neutral cities on the planet in the hopes of establishing commerce with the outside galaxy.

When the game first starts, 7 of these city-states will have already been formed exporting all sorts of variants of their warlike nature from mercenaries to military hardware to gladiatorial arena games using mechs.

The player assumes the role of one of these arena competitors as they fight their way thru various battles with competing clans or mech pilots in the game.

Gameplay is similar to the Tribes first-person shooter games even though the game is classified as a Mech sim much like the MechAssault series of games.

Despite this, some commonalities can be found between the two sims such as collecting powerups and some interface design choices.

The gameplay focuses on Teamwork and Squad based FPS tactics throughout the entire experience.

Mechs are designed in a garage interface at different intervals depending on what type of game you're playing at the time.

Within this interface, players can purchase mechs and spare parts using currency earned called credits.

Credits can be earned over the course of a single player game or dictated based on the requirements set up ahead of time on a multiplayer game.

War World has the single and multi player options, and includes game modes such as "capture the flag" and "team deathmatch".