Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Now somebody is going to say that those repeat performances of city sieges is what they want. To which I reply why did Mythic bother developing the rest of the game? If somebody is supposed to play this game for 4 years, but only spend 4 weeks of that leveling to the cap, and the other 3 years and 1...

I would say that open groups, making it easy to find people to play with, is one of the biggest strengths of WAR (maybe WoW should copy it). But if you have great group content and players find themselves excluded from it, because there aren't enough other players around to play with, that str...

By cnet@cnet.com.au (Kevin VanOrd) Engaging player-versus-player combat makes this an online role-playing game to reckon with.

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) I would say that open groups, making it easy to find people to play with, is one of the biggest strengths of WAR (maybe WoW should copy it). But if you have great group content and players find themselves excluded from it, because there aren't enough other players around to play with, that str...

By Dalmarus In Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, war is the name of the game. To succeed (or at the very least survive), you'll need to be on your toes and know the ins and outs of your chosen class, but information can be scarce in the world. Fortunately for you, the Ten Ton Hammer crew is cranking away in t...

By James Egan Syp writes about this in his "Future Tense" post, and breaks down the factors that could make or break the title's success in the long run, not limited to the upcoming expansions from other titles, word of mouth, and the longshot of breaking the pop culture barrier, as WoW has. Did you enjoy t...

By Krystalle Voecks In the rumble of battle in Warhammer Online, some triumph -- others fall. The wounded are tended, and the sacrifices of the fallen are acknowledged with a grim nod. Today's One Shots comes to us from Snacky of Iron Rock, who came across this scene while traveling around. Snacky writes: As my Wh...

You still have a chance at winning your own WAAGH t-shirt from Warhammer Online! The contest is still open! All you have to do is submit your best screenshot from Warhammer Online and you’re in. 1. Screenshot size has to be 1024 in resolution and of high quality. 2. “The MMO Gamer” has to be presen...

By Shawn Schuster A few weeks ago, gamerDNA made a push to get 500k gamers to take the Bartle test located on their site. Not only did they crush that number, but they've put the statistics to good use. In an interesting research article by Sanya Weathers (who was just recently on the Massively speaking podcast...

Filed under: Fantasy, Game mechanics, PvP, Warhammer Online, Opinion As a game that has promoted its PvP aspects so much, Warhammer Online's Realm vs Realm feature has become a big hit among players. In a recent article over at Eurogamer, they analyze the sport aspect of WAR's RvR system,...

By Rajiv Ashrafi While it is still not a WoW killer, it certainly is gaining the much-needed steam to survive in Blizzard’s ominous shadow. EA has announced that Mythic’s Warhammer Online has picked up over 750,000 players. "Thanks to our players, the war between the Realms continues to escalate...

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is the best new massively multiplayer game since World of Warcraft, which was released in 2004.

By Snafzg We’re not there yet, but we will be shortly! October 31, 2008 marks this blog’s first full year of writing about Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Coverage has ranged from game speculation and personal commentary on a variety of game announcements and MMORPG design concepts when WAR wa...

We’re not there yet, but we will be shortly! October 31, 2008 marks this blog’s first full year of writing about Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Coverage has ranged from game speculation and personal commentary on a variety of game announcements and MMORPG design concepts when WAR wa...

A lot of great discussion goes on in the comments section of this blog, it really does.  I was reading something written by one of my readers and had one of those eye opening moments.  When describing Warhammer Online compared to other mmorpgs I’ve been using terminology like “The player is m...

By Snafzg Cicadymn Part Ten of Ten - Know Your Gods is an original Warhammer Online lore series by Cicadymn (Sam). The day has finally come when we finish the Know Your Gods segment! Granted there is always more to learn about in the rich fantasy world of Warhammer, but for this series we have reached th...

By baricus The greatly anticipated release of the newest online game called Warhammer Online-"Age of Reckoning" on September 18/08 has the online gaming world buzzing. Is Warhammer Online really as great as all the hype or just a pauper to the prince of games, World of Warcraft?

Engaging player-versus-player combat makes this an online role-playing game to reckon with.

By syncaine Hopefully this change goes a long way to curing WAR of it’s terrible silence. I still think one of the reasons WAR is so silent is because the character downtime is so short, and usually you have something frantic to do (PQ influence, RvR), but the chat window certainly needed some love.

By Anthony Gallegos Anyone who's heard me on Legendary Thread or the late GFW Radio knows that I'm a huge Warhammer fan. I'm not talking about the recently released Warhammer Online, though - I mean, the tabletop war game. I've spent hours upon hours reading various army codices, painting miniatures, and cons...

By Earnest Cavalli Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning delivers on its promises, in a way that other World of Warcraft competitors don't. After Age of Conan promised so many innovative, intriguing additions to the massively multiplayer genre, then delivered on so few, no...

By Medeor With the release of our own Cody "Micajah" Bye's Warhammer Online First Impressions, the floodgates of video and print reviews have come spilling out. First there are the video clips. One review offers up a five out of five from G4 TV and then there is the always sun-glassed crew of Mythic bei...

 MA - 2008 - 11:00AM CT Welcome to week six of our play logs for Warhammer Online. We're getting close to the end of this play log review of Mythic's title, ...

The other main innovation in combat is the fact that there is collision detection, so you can’t just walk through other players (friend or foe). This is very interesting, particularly in siege warfare, as placement thus becomes far more important – particularly for tanks.

By Mike Fahey Warhammer is a pretty big name right now. With the launch of Mythic's epic MMORPG Warhammer Online and previous successes with the Warhammer 40K setting in the PC real-time strategy market, it makes sense for a console game to take advantage of the name recognition. Thus have Black Hole Gam...

By Relmstein(noreply@blogger.com) PvE with Player Content: City of Heroes >> Everquest II >> Vanguard >> LOTRO Classic PvP: Ultima Online >> EVE Online >> Age of Conan Casual PvP: Guild Wars >> World of Warcraft >> Warhammer

By Graev NOTE: This isn’t about Warhammer Online. Well, not much. I suppose it is time for another update on the state of the Graev. Several things have had my attention lately, such as Spore, Mercenaries 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and Warhammer Online. I already discussed Mercs 2 and still enj...

By Graev Note: This is just a GRAEV update and isn’t about Warhammer Online, so just skip it if thats what you’re looking for. I’ve been pretty busy lately with a few things. Couple games, trying to come up with comic ideas, drawing said comic ideas, watching daytime TV, etc. You know, real important st...

By Michael Zenke Eurogamer (8/10): "Until it's been out in the wild a while, this extremely well-made and highly enjoyable MMO remains unproven. And it remains - until our first re-review, at least - one step short of true greatness."Kill Ten Rats (Buy): "If you would like a sequel to World of Warcraft with a...

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Some readers preferred that I do a specific WAR review with a recommendation of whether to play it or not, so here is my take on that. As I've already talked enough about how the game works, this post is pure opinion. I don't do scores, but rather prefer relative comparisons: Warhammer Online:...

By Kinless 28 years later, Warhammer, however, gives some fair first impressions. So I pre-ordered Warhammer Online: The Age of Reckoning. Why?  No WoW beta invite to mess around with the expansion content?  (Not that I truly wanted to do that anyway.)  No, that's not the reason.

By ferv0r Quests and Public Quests Realm versus Realm Not much else to say. Oh, one thing I do highly appreciate is the fact that you get a reasonable amount of PvE experience for doing PvP. First, a couple disclaimers.  I only played to level 4 on a few characters.  I also realize that t

By Snafzg Here’s a realm breakdown. Greenskins and Chaos are still in the lead, but not by much. This isn’t surprising since these two realms are the poster boys of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning marketing and are arguably the most popular in the tabletop game as well.

By Snafzg Part Eight of Ten - Know Your Gods is an original Warhammer Online lore series by Cicadymn (Sam). So we’ve talked about many different gods in the Warhammer fantasy world. We’ve gone from the bloodthirsty Khorne, the conspiring Tzeentch, the holy Sigmar, and the powerful Asuryan. You might...

By Snafzg Please post any questions or comments below! The way Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is designed, you won’t need a step-by-step leveling guide to hold your hand through every single quest, /location, and technique. Leveling in WAR is very easy (yet still time consuming) if you split y...

By Snafzg Thanks for submitting all your questions! You’ve definitely kept me busy these past weeks! This has been filed under “Game Speculation” because we’re technically still in beta and things could change! Let’s get right down to it!  Here are your questions about Warhammer Online beta: Gu...

By Keen Leveling up in WAR is awesome. You have SO MANY choices. You can exclusively quest ala WoW or mix in some RvR ala DAOC or exclusively RvR. You can mix in Scenarios, Open-world RvR, PQ’s, dungeons, grinding, normal quests, and level well. The leveling in WAR feels standard to me. There are 40 level...

By Cameron Sorden I’m not going to give you my long-winded impression of Warhammer Online because 1) I didn’t play it long enough in beta for a proper review, and 2) everyone on the internet has been exploding with that information since the NDA belatedly dropped this morning. I suggest you hit any one (or all...

By dmosbon Warhammer Online is very unique in its approach in a number of areas of MMO gameplay & it is those features that, at a closer look, have drawn me to pre-order the game. Tome of Knowledge aka ToK - A great way for the game to tell you your own WAR story?

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Tobold: Paul, you are creative director and lead designer for Mythic Entertainment's upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR). Is there any feature in WAR where you'd say, "this is mine, my idea, I thought of this"? Or is your job limited to having an influence on the ideas of othe...

By Snafzg I’m heading back over to Warhammer Alliance to reread Browncoat’s “magic” article and Mark Jacobs’ response to find out if my impressions have changed given these announcements. I’m not going to lie to you guys. After yesterday’s announcements, my confidence in Warhammer Online and Myt...

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Some companies, like Blizzard, only release games when they are finished, so players have to wait a very long time. Other companies, like Funcom, release their game at the perfect moment, but with lots of bugs, and thin content in the endgame. Now several readers wrote me with a link to an art...

By Keen I woke up this morning and went straight to the computer to find out what Mark Jacobs’ news was going to be regarding a few major announcements for Warhammer Online. He dropped several bombs on the community today, that’s for sure. Punkbuster

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) I think you'll have noticed by now that I am a fan of mass market MMORPGs, and Richard Bartle is a fan of hidden gems. If I understand his explanation correctly this is because I play for fun, and he plays to look at the underlying mechanisms and innovation. I can agree with Dr. Bartle that if you ma...

By Keen Public Quests are absolutely revolutionary. They’re providing players a whole new way of playing, rewarding, and progressing their characters through the game. Massively’s Warhammer Online coverage over the past few days has been unparalleled by any website out there. The informatio...

By Snafzg EA Mythic GM, Mark Jacobs, was putting out fires over at VN today. Not that the fires were big mind you, but he did address a few concerns surrounding the Teen vs. Mature ESRB rating, Radar/Cheating prevention, and Raising the Bar for the MMORPG Genre.

By Snafzg There was some confusion last week when Josh was quoted as saying “Warhammer Online will have 5 years worth of content built into the game at launch.” What he really meant was that WAR is built with scalability in mind for 5 years into the future.

By Snafzg Two potentially harmful gaming practices were discussed last week: Keen pondered the impacts of zergs in Age of Conan, while The Heartless Gamer was annoyed by reports of ranged standoffs in Warhammer Online. These aren’t features implemented by developers—they’re a result of natura...

By Snafzg I had the fine privilege of being asked by Chip Mosher of BOOM! Studios to review Warhammer: Condemned by Fire #1 and provide my readers with a sneak-peak of the first 5 pages (below the review). If this book title doesn’t ring a bell, it’s the upcoming BOOM! release that contains a chance to w...

Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning Collector's Edition up for pre ... HEXUS.gaming, UK - Mar 28, 2008 The Collector's Edition will be packed with bonus in-game content and unique collectibles unavailable elsewhere, including an exclusive Games Workshop ...