Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Customer Review: Very buggy - read for examples
Summary: 2 Stars
General Opinion: as you have probably read the 5 star reviews I wont go into the new features and concepts that make the game fun and unique. The world is very pvp focused and that can be a lot of fun. You can log in and out and always have some pvp action going on. The synthesis between constant action and traditional RPG development is done quite well. In the end though I had to give the game a 2 star rating because it is essentially a beta in release... it crashes, is half implemented, takes huge amounts of system resources and is in general quite buggy. I don't think consumers should accept such unpolished products no matter how many innovative ideas they attempted to implement. I imagine after a year of paying beta the list below will be eliminated.
Issues: After playing the game for a couple months some of the coding is driving me to just not want to play. I did not have this experience with WOW, LOTR, Everquest etc. As a programmer who worked on the original Everquest I have some bias as to what a game should be before it is released. There is something to be said for having the design team and programmers in the same building. (or country for that matter)
- the crafting system is largely unimplemented, or balanced. For example when your salvage skill goes up you get a message saying " your trade skill --- has increased to -"
- The game map blanks out intermittently, both in the upper compass and the overall map will have huge squares blacked out... the next time you open the map the blockage may clear.
- As you run around the world you are often caught either floating above the world or stuck underneath it. The only way to fix it is to re-set your height by dying or logging out.
- After RVR your often stuck casting a spell, you can take no action until you cast another spell to cancel the affect.
- When exploring if you are in a group you cannot see any other groups in the area, this makes it very hard to consolidate. In addition there are bugs in the war band/scenario system causing your scenario group to be invisible if you joined from a war band. You cant see groups out of your immediate vicinity either.
- The game uses over 1.2 gigs of ram and runs very slow, during pvp battles where the game should be at its peak the lag is often so bad you have to click 10 times on an ability for it to go off. ( I have tested on three platforms, the newest power machine runs it in a playable fashion)
- Some resolution choices result in the user interface overlapping and becoming unusable.
- Only a couple emotes are implemented.
- The text output on many abilities, skills, quests as a result of in game action is either missing or implemented like the first item in the list.
- There is no auto-balancing to scenarios, most of the time when you jump into a RVR scenario the score ends up being 500 to less than 100 on one side. Exp is based on score and it's a 15 minute endeavor so it can be quite a waste of time. There is a 10 lvl range per scenario tier, but nothing prevents one team from having an average lvl of 19 and the other an average of 12. It would have been nice to see some algorithms for team balancing.
I could keep going but I think you get the idea....I'll check on the game again in a year and see if they work out some of the deficits in coding.
Customer Review: Warhammer for PvP
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this for my husband. He says the graphics and pvp capability are far beyond WoW, though WoW is fun in its own way.Customer Review: Wahammer Online
Summary: 4 Stars
The game overall is good, but still buggy. Plus it uses a lot of RAM and runs slow at times, especially with vista. I would definitely make sure you meet the requirements to run this game. The game is enjoyable if you get it running.Customer Review: pretty sick game
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a pretty sick game. The RvR is like no other... WoW can never beat the PvP aspects of this game. WotLK might beat it, but I've never played, and i dont think im going back to WoW. While all wow players grind their new levels and grind for gear and grind for gear, did i mention grind for gear? I will be slaughtering those pesky bright wizards.
dont get me wrong, WoW has great pve content... if you dont mind wiping hundreds of times and farming for gold. WAR is all about the RvR and gold comes easy. Got my 15g mount at rank 20 without a second of grinding for gold.good game for pvpers, boring game for pveers
Customer Review: Great Game with tons of potential.
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is a really great game. For those of you that are looking for a "WoW" type game this is not it, this game is for one thing and one thing only and that is RvR. Realm Vs Realm combat is something that Mythic has invented and mastered.
Warhammer online does not offer a super rich PvE experience just yet but they have made vast improvements since the launch of thisgame to balance things out, fix bugs, and just overall improvement.
There is a ways to go on the path to perfection but after Dark Age of Camelot's successes and failures I think this company has learned a thing or two about customer satisfaction and listening to it's customers.