Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
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Video Game Reviews of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Customer Review: An Excellent Game
Summary: 5 Stars
Games I have played: FFXI, Age of Conan, World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online
Everyone always starts off by mentioning World of Warcraft and I think I will as well. I love World of Warcraft and have waisted many hours in World of Warcraft. I had a 70 tier 6 Troll Shamman, 70 tier 5 Human Mage, 62 Human Paladin, and a 54 Tauren Druid. I still think that World of Warcraft has the best raiding content in any game I have ever played.
This being said I got tired of the way that World of Warcraft did PVP. This is where Warhammer really steps it up. In World of Warcraft, most of the game was being stunned/feared/sheeped. I do not enjoy loosing control of my character and waiting for my character to be killed without being able to do anything. I am currently only a 23 Ironbreaker/ 10 White Lion but already find pvp, or referred to as rvr in Warhammer extremely fun. The scenarios give you experience when you compete in them, and is also probably the fastest way to level up.
Now I am going to discuss the game and what my impressions of it were.
I got into this game because several of my friends had started playing it and talked me into trying it out. The first class I tried out was an Archmage. I found the class ok but it did not mesh with my play style. Then I created an Ironbreaker with a friend when we were playing together and absolutely fell in love with him. This seems to be the way the developers wanted you to play the game. Some classes you will like, some you will hate. I definitely recommend trying a few.
Warhammer brings some interesting new things to the game. For one I enjoy I no longer have mana. Every character now has energy. This energy continuously regenerates so that you can continue to fight for any amount of time.
The second is something called tactics. You can pick and choose which tactics you have on but think of them as selecting which buffs you are going to have active at any one time. You can switch these out after being out of combat for 10 seconds. This means that in an RVR or siege you can hot swap abilities if you need to adjust for a situation.
Warhammer also gives you abilities that you can set called Morale abilitys. Your morale abilities charge the longer you are in combat. The higher tier ones typically give group buffs or group damage. For example my tier 3 morale ability the other day lets me makes my group within 30 yards of me take 50% less damage of all types for 10 seconds. Morale has a maximum of four levels and anytime you use any morale ability, you loose all of your morale.
Another thing Warhammer gives you is a class specific self buffing system. For my archmage I would start to cast faster, do more damage, or more healing if I cast spells in the same school like 4 healing spells in a row. My Ironbreaker gets grudge which is used to increase damage I do and to activate special abilities that take no energy at all. I have not played all of the classes yet so I can not tell you what every class gets but everyone gets something to help them out and make them even a little more unique.
Warhammer also allows for some interesting world RVR. I was a part of a siege on a keep. Let me tell you setting up battering rams and ballistics are just amazing. You have to have healers healing the people on the ram because everyone is getting burning oil poured on them. This is something you need to participate in to see what the end game type of pvp is going to be like. The end game of this game is trying to capture the enemy's capital.
I will now leave you with my thought on MMO's out there at this time that I have played.
FFXI - Fun to play, I hated the xp penalty for dying, the exuberant amounts of time required to level and the zero availability to solo in this game. I spent most of my time on this game looking for leveling groups.
World of Warcraft - I have played this game more than anything else to date. It is great fun, well polished but extremely tedious after going through content once. The PVP is horribly imbalanced and is just not as fun. The raiding content can not be matched by any game in the mainstream market today.
Age of Conan - I got bored quickly, interesting ideas but the lack of focus of any objectives made me not like it. Open PVP was just horrible because there were no factions and no real reason to do anything other than just bragging rights. I hate it when a developer instances normal zones like Guild Wars.
Warhammer - Extremly fun. Lack of endgame PVE, best PVP in a game so far to date. I wish that when you left Tier 1 zone, to Tier 2 zone it did not have a loading screen. Interesting that not everyone has an exact copy of your character on the opposing side.
Customer Review: Exceeded expactaions by a bit
Summary: 4 Stars
While, as all online games start out, it was kinda glitchy and buggy at first, Mythic was very quick to balance the game and take heed to all the users' pleas and dilemmas, and to be honest, the first to really beat back gold selling spam. The game is Player-vs-Player oriented, and did a great job of making the experience enthralling and fun. Progression is not something that's easily or lazily obtained, and requires the player to be mindful of what they do throughout the game. Probably the best team-learning MMO I've played to date.Customer Review: Waagh! This be da gud game!
Summary: 5 Stars
Love this game. Player vs Player is awesome. Realm vs Realm is awesome. Player vs Environment is awesome. It is a great overall game and I am happy with my purchase.Customer Review: WoW is good, Warhammer is better
Summary: 5 Stars
We have 2 WoW accounts and have played it for years. In September 2008, we started playing Warhammer. At first we also wanted to continue with WoW and had ordered the expansion set 'Wrath of the Lich King", but due to the succes of Warhammer we have cancelled "Wrath of the Lich King" and our subscriptions.
WoW is definitely an excellent MMO, but we like PvP and RvR (Realm versus Realm), and that we find much more in Warhammer. The PvP and RvR battlegrounds in WAR are also part of the leveling system. For example, in doing PvP battlegrounds you also gather XP for leveling, and "Renown" which gives you credit points you can use to specialize certain battle functions. Besides that you have also talent trees and much more. In other words, less grinding, more fun.
The graphics and sounds are excellent. The effects are hellish in full group combat, especially on the frontline.
Warhammer has already announced that 2 more careers will be added in December, one for Destruction and one for Order. Christmas will be promising :-)
Customer Review: Great Game, awful customer support.
Summary: 4 Stars
The game is great, the game play is very fun. If you like PvP this mmo is for you, if you are into running instances well, it isn't.
Lots of scenarios, that are like battlegrounds in WoW and the Public Quests that are are really fun, kindda like bosses in instances.
The only thing I don't like is the graphics, the game auto changes the level of detail depending on how many people are near you so you won't lag, but it doesn't change depending on your computer specs.
So even thou I have really good PC spec (4G Ram, 512Mb 4870, 4.0 DC Procesor), the game changes the level of detail even thou I'm not lagging.
The game = Great !
If you have any trouble and try contacting the Customer support, well good luck with that. I sent an email to their support of a problem I had the first day and I'm still waiting for a response after I sent all my info. There even a website dedicated to the people that aren't happy with their customer support www.warhammeronlinesupportsucks.com