Obviously, World War II is the greatest conflict of all time, in terms of numbers. Then half a year later, we moved into Europe, and later into the United States and China. Kislyi: We first launched in Russia, as you know. GamesBeat: Why did World of Tanks take off? What were the right conditions for it to succeed?
It’s kind of like chess, but with real people, real countries. You train your brain as you see how kings and emperors and prime ministers did politics, how they won and lost wars, how they built countries and empires. Usually they’re all interrelated with each other. When you study history enthusiastically, you’re exposed to dozens, hundreds, thousands of effects, and each of them has its causes and effects. But almost every solid historical movie, I probably watched it, all the famous ones.
And then The Vikings, the American movie. It was dubbed very well in Russian and officially shown in the Soviet Union. When I was 7, I saw the one with Kirk Douglas.
#World war ii online tank tier movie#
Apart from World War II movies, which we had a lot of, my first serious movie that really made me a history buff was Spartacus. Wars and colonization and politics always play together. But war and civil history are always interconnected. Like many boys, I was fascinated by military history, that aspect of history. The history of the revolution, the history of World War II, what we called the Great Patriotic War, the history of the war against Napoleon, when he invaded in 1812. In the Soviet Union, although it was a bit biased as you might imagine, history was a big subject we studied from the first grade. There are all kinds of quotes from famous people about how good it is to learn history rather than not learn history. Kislyi: Somebody said that if you don’t learn history, you repeat its mistakes. GamesBeat: Where did you pick up this appreciation for history? Kislyi: We’d acquired a small studio in Minsk that was also making strategy games.
GamesBeat: How many games had you made before that? We made World of Tanks in, give or take, 18 or 24 months, depending on how you count the technology development. Single-player boxed games were no longer something we could pull off. It was a real-time strategy game, Company of Heroes-meets-Total War.Īfter that, through some strategic thinking and looking at the industry, we realized that MMOs were the way to go. Before World of Tanks our biggest success was Order of War, which was published in the west by Square Enix. Each time our games would be a little better, but not yet to a world-class standard. The first one known to the Western world would be Massive Assault, a couple of installments of Massive Assault. I decided to make games in 1995, and in 1996 we made our first game, my brother and I and one other person. I was there with people from 20 different countries.Īll through this time I was playing games - Civilization, SimCity, Red Alert, Dune II, Warcraft, StarCraft. I went to New Hampshire on an exchange program and worked in a sort of socially oriented place where I washed dishes, cleaned bathrooms, made beds, worked in the kitchen. In 1995 I visited the United States for the first time. I studied English, finished school, and then I entered university for physics, five years of physics. Not literally, but I went to a chess school from when I was 7, and I don’t regret a moment of it. In the Soviet Union it was kind of a religion. From age 7 to 14, I was playing chess competitively. Physics, mathematics, chemistry, all that stuff. I had a very good education in a normal school. Victor Kislyi: Well, I was born in the Soviet Union. GamesBeat: What was your life like before World of Tanks? It’s racked up more than 160 million registered players in the past 10 years. I interviewed Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi about the anniversary and how the company labored for years before coming upon the right free-to-play game. How time flies! It feels like World of Tanks has been around for what seems like most of our online lives.ĭuring the pandemic, World of Tanks has seen a surge, and Wargaming has done its best to make us fall in love with massive online tank battles from the World War II era all over again, staging in-game events that have lasted for weeks.
That’s why I was surprised to learn that Wargaming is celebrating the 10th anniversary of World of Tanks this year. I’ve been playing games and detaching from reality when necessary. If you’re like me, you’ve lost track of time during the lockdown. Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next.
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