Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Comments by Oli Welsh

This game deserves more like a 6/10. Clearly they have cut corners to get the game out. Lots of placeholders, extremely limited classes/character creation (even more limited than WOW!), AI getting stuck, lack of any serious content. The first quest is 'go and kill xx of these xxx' - pah! AI also has an incredible way of healing. If you take it away from its spawn area, it will run back and go back to 100% health every time. Very annoying.

The UI is probably the worst in any MMO. WOW might be simple but man, they have their UI down to a fine art. Clicking on items puts them in the chat bar, linking stuff in chat - none of that in WAR.

However, RvR is awesome. Alot of fun, if you have a good team with you its alot of fun and PvP is 100% better than WOWs flawed effort. Its no great, but given 10 years it might be

WAR's map is bloody horrible, once you leave the starting area, at least for the pretty-people side.

I know WoW's map is a load of cartoon nonsense, but at least the path was clear and your targets were clearly marked, y'know, as if somebody had told you where they wanted you to go when they gave you your quest.

I've got five quests at the moment whose aims are "Find some guy and talk to him" and that's ALL THE CLUE I GET.

I got so lost the other night that I ended up using the rally book simply because I had no idea where to go to even get back.

I'll play out the month but I'll only resub when it's possible to find out what the hell is going on.

"I've got five quests at the moment whose aims are "Find some guy and talk to him" and that's ALL THE CLUE I GET."

Errr, your told where to go on the map by the red circles. If youve got a quest in a zone that requires you to leave that zone (and they are usually only quests that ask you to go the next tiers warcamp) then you have a bloody great red cross pointing you in the right direction.

@Frosty

I have to say, I felt the same way you did when I first started the game, I understood the concept of the red circles, but some of the quest I got confused on. After a while however, I have really got into what to read in the quest text, and watching those circles, and haven't had ANY problems questing since, so trust me, look around, read the quest text and you shouldn't have a problem, now I blaze through every quest.

lol@wow fanboys, what a pathetic breed. imagine being the most pathetic lame type of mmo gamer out there, not a good look.

Really enjoying WAR so far, I love the way I dont need to quest to level, its made questing so much more pleasurable to just do it when Im bored of rvr or waiting for something. Public quests are absolutely amazing, probably the best invention in an MMO ever, if anyone can think of a better innovation please let me know.

The animation is pretty clunky, I hope to see that fixed, Im sure its really not that hard to do, while I understand the issues people are saying it is causing them, Im pretty much of the opinion that animations are not the bones of an MMO, and them being poor in no way makes it fundamentally flawed.

the game has been patched and it looks like they have fixed the animation bug, the fighting feels alot more solid now

This is an awful game, one of the worst ever. But lets start at the beginning. This is basically World of Warcraft set in the GamesWorkshop Warhammer universe. The game itself is system hungry and takes several hours to load and update - although much, much quicker than WOW. Graphically nothing sets them apart. Sound - again nothing special or even interesting.

Gameplay - WoW - nothing special (although to be fair theres nothing else that can be done that WoW hasnt done)

The Empire / Chaos regions are initailly nice, with some well thought out vistas (the views of the moons are nicely done) but dont change after that and is generally a pain after a while. The Orc(k) region is half finished and looks like someone was using the Lego(tm) creator set to build it. The Elvish region is fully built but hasnt been polished and appears lumpy and dead (as if waiting for the bubble wrap to come off).

The levelling up is predictable and dull and after a few levels all appeal for continiuing has gone. The much vaunted RvR is terrible and a waste of time -gameplay is simply a frenzy of buttton pressing and mouse clicking for a random outcome.

The in game quests are terrible and grindy with no sense of achievment. The public quests (in which you team up with others) are just terrible and an utter waste of time. The ingame monsters and creatures are unpleasant and a waste of time.

The characters are just terrible. You get a lot of choice - warrior, mage, magewarrior or warrior at a distance. Thats all it boils down too.

The servers are fairly busy, much less bugs than first found (and will get less and less with time). Although you can play for hours and not see anyone (i once played for ten hours and saw two players - on a saturday afternoon)

Please dont buy this game, or if you do, you will find yourself cancelling your subscription after a few weeks of wasted life.

This game has pulled me back in. It's awesome.

As a European I highly reccommend downloading a digital-purchased US copy of the game and joining the Oceanic (australian) servers they have there. During our daytime, the servers are packed and the quality of service vs GOA is like night and day.