Exclusive: Warhammer Online

Published 16 August, 2006 Duration 2:40

The full, final trailer for Mythic's forthcoming fantasy MMO, with an extra minute of tasty footage on top of E3's original teaser.

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  • spindizzy #1 6 years ago

    Very impressive. No better than the WoW pre-rendered intro from a while back now, but very impressive anyway. In game footage next please!

  • S.J.Rogers #2 6 years ago

    When is the film due for release.?

    Ow, its a computer game....

    Bummer..!

  • mull #3 6 years ago

    That video has strangely muffled audio, made me feel like a cloth-ears.

    Yea, some in game footage now please. This game needs to prove it can be actually different from WoW, and needs to demonstrate this difference pronto. I love the universe, but I can't help but feel they have every chance of getting steamrollered by thier bastard offspring Blizzzard.
    Edited by mull at 16/08/06 @ 10:20

  • MaxiSleep #4 6 years ago

    Hmmmm.

    A derivitave copy of Wow intro, which is derivative of Warhammer art syyle.

    Endless Loop

    Head Hurts

  • mazzl #5 6 years ago

    yes another monster - elf - bla bla game.. copy of ten previous games...
    when will they release a new concept.....

    booooring
    Edited by mazzl at 16/08/06 @ 10:45

  • Mwyn #6 6 years ago

    Ah why all the hate? Anyway I loved it, fantastic.
    Edited by Mwyn at 16/08/06 @ 11:20

  • CaptainTae #7 6 years ago

    Yes, yet another Elf-monster game, how unoriginal.

    Nevermind the fact that Warhammer has been around for over 20 years and the fact that many modern fantasy games/novels (such as WoW) take many aspects from Warhammer's lore.

    So, please, don't bother releasing a game based on over two decades of solid background story, that is and will continue to be popular amongst literally millions of gamers around the world. No, give us a "new concept" like oh so many of the other upcoming mmo's are doing.

    /sarcasm
    Edited by CaptainTae at 16/08/06 @ 11:59

  • Lurks #8 6 years ago

    It looks great, I enjoyed it. Of course it has absolutely nothing to do with the game so it doesn't enthuse me any more about the prospects of Warhammer Online.

    And let's be honest, if you played Dark Age of Camelot you will know how well and truly they were owned by World of Warcraft. Blizzard came at it from an actual game creator's perspective and took the MMO genre and removed all the unfun stuff.

    Mythic, if you played DAOC you'll remember, basically thrived in all the un-fun stuff and they had absolutely no technical ability at all. Their USP was the PvP side of things but they hadn't thought to create an engine that COULD render hundreds of people in the same scene. So a typical PvP battle was not so much frames per second, as seconds per frame.

    I hate to be a wowser (ho ho) but seriously, from gameplay, content and technical ability standpoints - Mythic have yet to demonstrate anything to grovel at the boots of World of Warcraft. And here we are we a trailer with no in-game footage. Surprise surprise.

    My overriding thought after watching this trailer was - hey, bring on Warcraft the Movie.
    Edited by Lurks at 16/08/06 @ 12:06

  • yiannis #9 6 years ago

    here's your screen caps inside Mythic's studio.

    [link url=http://www.warhammeronline.com/english/behindTheScenes/vidPhoneDiaries/2006july.php
    ]http://www.warhammeronline.com/english/b...[/link]

    cheers

  • kangarootoo #10 6 years ago

    Thats a stunning trailer. Very well directed.

    Pity there is no actual game footage in it, but its to be expected this early really. I'm sure there will be others along in due course.

  • Azazel #11 6 years ago

    Chaos ftw every time.

  • mazzl #12 6 years ago

    @CaptainTae
    well then it better BE! all that brilliant, beceause competition in this genre is enormous

  • urborg74 #13 6 years ago

    Gawd, if some people spent as much time looking at the information available on the game as they did ignorantly flaming it, they might actually learn something. You can't seriously think this is all that has been released on this game so far. o.O There's tons of footage floating around...in game footage, information on the games vision, screenshots, art pages, video blogs, interviews, etc. The information is out there, you just have to get off yer duffs and go look. Need a hint on where to start? How about...the main website...that work for you? Wakey wakey!

  • Ryuken #14 6 years ago

    Seriously, this doesn't come even close to the Mark of Chaos trailer. More like bland EQII cgi quality imo.

  • Azazel #15 6 years ago

    The Mark of Chaos trailer was indeed awesome. I liked this one up until the point the elves appeared. Feckin' elves...

  • jack_klugman #16 6 years ago

    Is it just me or was that added scene slightly making fun of the Mark Of Chaos trailer? In so much as they both feature a bald human, seemingly overcome by a fiercesome Chaos Lord, only be invigorated with a magical hammer at the last minute. Except... in this one the Chaos Lord knees the poor fellow in the ribs and knocks his face in.

  • Ryuken #17 6 years ago

    Yeah, I noticed it too but then again, the end here isn't that clear though as the previous fighting scenes.

    And sometimes a little subtlety can do much more, that Mark of Chaos trailer proved it (as the magnificent Brood War intro did too).

  • Orange #18 6 years ago

    yes the Mark of Chaos trailer was fantastic. However this was still a good one.

    I've been subscribed to WoW since release, yet I and many other players I know are watching Warhammer Online closely. If it turns out to be good then I have no problem switching game. They don't need to do anything revolutionary in the gameplay, just make it more skill rather than time based in the pvp side, and less of a repetitive grind-fest on the pve side than its competitors.

    WoW is horribly flawed in the pvp in that getting epic pve gear and spending hours and hours in a week playing has too big an impact -with player skill being totally secondary. That and they still only have 3 tactically limited battlegrounds when they were hyping this side of the game up since before release.

    It does seem like they've been given a kick up the arse to revamp things in the Burning Crusade, taking out the intensive weekly time requirement to rank, but I don't hold out much hope that they will be able to balance that side of the game enough, and getting people to repeat instances but at difficulties scaled to their level doesn't thrill me on the pve side either.
    Edited by Orange at 18/08/06 @ 14:19

  • jack_klugman #19 6 years ago

    And sometimes a little subtlety can do much more, that Mark of Chaos trailer proved it (as the magnificent Brood War intro did too).

    Any many of the story cutscenes in Warcraft 3 for that matter. Blizzard are masters of FMVcraft.

  • RealityCheque #20 6 years ago

    I like! They so should make a Warhammer film in that style. Might take a while but it'd be fucking AWESOME. And then a 40k one too please.

    I await a demo of this with great interest, this might even tempt me to start paying MMO costs if it's good. Although I do think they're missing a trick not releasing a Blood Bowl game.