

In one match, your skill may help you overcome a player of your same level.

To make matters worse, WorldShift features no kind of level-based matchmaking system, you won't know if you're playing against a newbie player or a veteran with high-level units until you meet them on the battlefield. But new players won't be stepping onto a level playing field WorldShift was released a year ago in many European countries. Since WorldShift feature an MMO-style skill progression, the more you play, the more powerful you can make your units.

Multiplayer removes some of the campaign's frustrations like the pitiful enemy AI, only to swap it for a major new problem: balance. The story is cliché and boring, and the mission objectives are laughably bad, often involving avoiding enemies with stealth – no easy feat with your units' broken pathfinding. Removing base-building may make the gameplay easier for new players, but removes any sort of strategy at all – there's no balance between attack and defense you'll simply always be massing your forces into one large offensive unit and hunting down the bad guys. WorldShift was clearly designed with multiplayer in mind (you have to create an online account to even launch the game), and the single-player campaign is so bad that few players will muscle through it before heading online.
