World in Conflict: Soviet Assault - Plot

Plot

In June 1989, the Soviet Union demands aid from NATO and declares war when they refuse. Spetznaz forces infiltrate and destroy US anti-air emplacements in West Berlin before the full-scale invasion (and World War III) commences. The GSFG units in East Berlin, led by Colonel Orlovsky and his subordinates Lieutenant Romanov and Captain Malashenko, blast through the Berlin Wall and destroy the US 6th Armored Battalion. Months later, Soviet forces launch a surprise invasion of Seattle and Orlovsky and his forces are tasked with pacifying the countryside. Guerrilla fighters begin harassing Soviet forces and they respond with an attack on the guerrilla commanders. The guerrilla leader is captured but Orlovsky reprimands a vengeful Malashenko, who is caught before he can massacre American civilians.

Going back months earlier, a stalemate in the fighting between the USSR and NATO results in Orlovsky's battalion being given the task to raid a Norwegian early warning base, which would open up a corridor for the Soviet Air Force to fly combat missions against Western Europe. After the attack, Orlovsky and his men learn that a NATO task force made an incursion into the Soviet Union near Murmansk. Orlovsky's forces return to the Soviet Union and defend a POW camp from a NATO attack force. Here, Malashenko receives grave news that his wife and daughter were killed in a NATO raid. He also states his disdain over the Soviet government and its agencies' lies to the Army over enemy statistics, becoming increasingly infuriated at the lack of progress and desires to take matters into his own hands.

The events return to the aftermath of the US nuclear strike on Cascade Falls, which stopped a Soviet force advancing on Fort Teller. The Red Army retreat from Cascade Falls back towards Seattle to prepare for the inevitable US counterattack. Romanov is given command of Frontal Aviation assets to protect a convoy of wounded Soviet troops. Malashenko kills Orlovsky for ordering all Soviet troops in the area to return to the USSR instead of holding the line at Seattle. Major Lebedjev assumes command of the remaining Soviet forces, as they hold off a massive American attack. He realizes, like Orlovsky before him, that Seattle cannot be held and evacuates all forces under his command. A deluded Malashenko, however, proceeds for Seattle where he is sure to meet certain death.