With the exception to the profession system the game is better than average to solid in almost every capacity...
User Rating: 8.5 | Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning PC
World design, the questing system, sound, player vs. player, class mechanics and so on are all well designed and relatively bug-free. Realm stability hasn't really been an issue at all, but there have been a few complaints of high population servers (with occasional queues) having it's players too spread out within the world to really notice at all that the server is, in fact, high population. Given the game's PvP focus this could work to it's detriment. One of my only complaints is regarding poor player and NPC animations (almost exclusively at a distance), with animations getting more choppy the farther you get from the target. The long and short of it; this is an incredibly enjoyable game-play experience, especially if you're a PvP-motivated player. While it's not perfect or revolutionary, by any means, and it's not an entirely fair comparison, it's probably the best MMO to be released since WoW and even compares well to what WoW has become after four years of polish and refinement. In conclusion, to the emo 3.0 scorers and Mister "this game is not the best game ever released so I'm gunna give it a dismal score"...give it a rest. In my opinion (obviously) any score lower than a 7.0 should, by all means, be disregarded.
