Customer Reviews:

0 out of 1 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: AH2YEIM958XPA 2008-11-19
 
Review Summary: Good, but good enough?
 
Review Content: I had thought that this might have been the game to break my WOW habit, but I decided not to renew my subscription after the first month, WAR is a pretty good game, but needs more polish in lots of areas.

In WAR each race has it's own individual classes, for example if you want to play as an Ironbreaker, you'll have to be a dwarf. While this might have seemed a good idea in planning, it actually makes the character choice seem more restrictive than in similar games, even though there are many more classes. Another bad idea is having class specific armour, this has led to all characters of the same class looking like facsimiles of each other, the only differences being in the dye colours chosen.

There is not enough variation in the world, and it seems too organised. Individual zones are quite large and pack a lot of content in, but rarely feel open and expansive, there are not enough different types of terrain to make a refreshing change when you enter a new zone. It's also not the type of world where you would log in to relax and speak to your friends as you might with other games of this type, the focus is definitely on war and destruction and leads to the world feeling a bit too macho.

The PVE quests are all divided into numbered chapters. Finished all your quests at the Chapter 20 hub? Then move to 21 of course, Finished Tier 2? Then move to Tier 3, this doesn't make Warhammer's game world feel organic and alive, it feels like it's been designed by a Swiss urban planner. I doubt the lords of chaos approve of this logical ordering of the world.

The graphics have the potential to be excellent but feel completely unfinished at the moment, the draw distance and anti aliasing need to be improved. Currently WOWs updated graphics look way more polished than WARs.

After all the bad points are out of the way it's definitely the best MMO launched since WoW. There are some very nice features, the Tome of Knowledge is brilliant and will I assume be widely copied, along with public quests and open groups. It's a promising enough game and I will check back on it in a few months to see how it has developed, but it's not quite good enough at the moment to lure me away from the Lich King.

 
 
 

0 out of 1 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: AM1EDGL9ELRN0 2008-11-18
 
Review Summary: Really nice at the first glance - after two weeks - BOOOOOORING!
 
Review Content: Like I said really cool at the beginning, nice looking, sometimes hangs on my 4870, but from the middle of tier2 it is just boooring like hell.. and this is my opinion. You don't have to read quests to perform them - just go, kill, pick, find come back - so booring!
 
 
 

0 out of 1 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: AZ8YO105S7RTC 2008-11-12
 
Review Summary: Very Poor Quality - Disc 2
 
Review Content: Can't install this due to Disc 2 problems. These seem to be very common so I suspect that some sort of copy protection is to blame. Game returned for a refund as it is clearly unfit for purpose.
 
 
 

1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: A3RPJ2TKDZTD2 2008-11-11
 
Review Summary: Initial review
 
Review Content: I have to say I am not a big fan of MMO, the only games I bought prior to this was D&D Stormreach, I was a big fan of D&D when I was a kid but was disappointed in the lack of player helpfulness when it comes to the harder quests, even when I joined a guild there seemed to be a lack of support. After shelving the game I bought Guild Wars, which is free to play but it just wasn't a game I enjoyed. Being a fan of the Warhammer tabletop battle game and having played ALL the computer games based on this I invested in WAR, despite some of it's bad reviews. So far so good.

INSTALLATION - Despite bad reviews about game installation and setting up and account with GOH I have had no problems, there is a rather sizable patch once installation is complete, but being a hardcore gamer I am used to this and just made a brew. Once the game is installed, actually starting the game is quite fast.

RACES/CAREERS - I'm abit gutted that there isn't more of a variety of careers, given the amount of different troops in the TT battle game I was hoping there would be more. Hopefully they will introduce more in future patches. But you get to select whether to fight for Order or Destruction, then your race, Dwarves, Elves or Human, Goblinoid, Dark Elves or Chaos. Then you select your career ranging from sorcerers to fighters all with their different aspects and abilities.

GAMEPLAY - Just like any other MMO you go wandering the world looking for quests to advance in levels, what I like about WAR compared to D&D is they are managable on your own, at least if you don't try and jump ahead to the more difficult ones before you have ranked up. Moving about can be quite boring if you keep dieing and have to go back to the same quest, but thats your own fault for not being battle worthy, lol. The graphics aren't the best I have seen in a game, but that's ok, given it's an MMO, I wouldn't want it to start lagging with the amount of players and graphics all going on. But they are still ok. I like the idea of crafting as well, which could be something like mixing ingredients to form potions and such, growing weed and that's not the waccy baccy stuff either.

QUESTS - There are private quests and public quests, which is pretty cool. Given to you by NPC's, the private ones you can achieve on your own which I find a plus over D&D ST. The public ones are really hard, I tried one with only one other player and we got battered by a demon of change, I'll have to try and recruit some peeps for that. There is also the realm v realm combat, not exactly a quest but more of a battle between Order and Destruction. The Warhammer World in game, is split into zones which are owned by either side. All you have to do to take part is select a button on the interface and when the next battle starts you are teleported to that site and you fight it out with other players. Then teleported back when it is over. Everything you do in the WAR world contributes points to your realm (zone control), whether they be private, public or RvR.

Overall, when my 1 month free subscription is over I will pay to play, so far it is worth the £30. I have only given it a 4 star so far as I am more of an RTS gamer than an MMO player.
 
 
 

2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: A30ZF0EOZJUB7S 2008-11-07
 
Review Summary: Even better than WoW!
 
Review Content: After playing WoW a few years ago I have not yet found another MMORPG to take its place.... Warhammer Online as done this! The game mechanics are excellent and the whole race storyline and game progression with the public quests really makes this game enjoyable.

I strongly recommend this game!