The story takes place in the 2030s through to the 2040s, in a world where economic and political chaos has caused the collapse of many nations, while international businesses continue to thrive. These businesses buy out large regions and failing militaries to form their own. Players take the role of mercenaries in these companies, battling for control of territory.
Gameplay
Armored Warfare is set in a modern virtual world where the player takes on the role of a mercenary employed by a private military company. The game offers players the opportunity to participate in battles across co-op player versus environment campaigns and team-based player versus player matches in a variety of armored vehicles, main battle tanks, and long-range artillery. Players can customize their vehicles with upgrades and retrofits that affect the way the vehicles perform in-game.
Player versus player
In player versus player gameplay, the players take control of an armored vehicle and participate in 15 vs. 15 team battles across 13 different maps. In order to secure the win, a team must either eliminate all the opponents in the enemy team or successfully capture the opponent's base or the neutral base. The duration of the battle for both 'Standard' and 'Encounter' modes is up to 15 minutes, nevertheless, it can be shorter if any of the aforementioned team goals are achieved earlier.
Player versus environment
missions are designed for a group of five players to fight against artificial intelligence controlled bots. Players can queue for missions individually or grouped with up to four other players in a platoon. Missions can be selected from several difficulty levels up to insane, where success depends on the vehicles the players bring, coordination between the team members and skill in the PvE arena.
Global Operations
Global operations is the newest gamemode in AW. It was introduced in update 0.18. It features expanded, specially designed maps with special features not found in the other modes. At its core, it is a PvP mode but when dying, players can respawn. This, however, makes your team's ticket counter go down. The main objective of this mode is to get the enemy team's tickets to 0 before yours do. The main way of accomplishing this is by capturing objectives which dynamically change over time on the map. In addition to these primary objectives, there are also secondary objectives in the form of "wildcards". These range from a bomber strike that a player can call in, a UAV drone to spot the enemy or even an AC-130 gunship.
Customization
Armored Warfare offers players a wide array of vehicle and base customization options. It is possible to unlock additional vehicles and equipment as players progress through the game as well as visually customize their vehicles with camouflage patterns and paints, as well as emblems on the side of vehicles.
Reception
Awards
The game received the "Best Multiplayer" award from TenTonHammer's Best of E3 Awards 2014.
